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• Scotland's National Orchestra Gets A New Music Director

  25-05-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård first appeared with the RSNO in November 2009 as a last-minute replacement for a sick conductor and went on to lead lauded performances of Shostakovich’s Symphony No11 in Edinburgh and Glasgow. He was appointed to the position of Principal Guest Conductor in 2011 and since then has appeared with the RSNO up to four times each season."
  
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• Peter Blum Gallery Announces Move Downtown From 57th Street, New Artists on Roster

  25-05-2017 23:08 via artnews.com
  After being forced out of its 57th Street building due to impending demolition, Peter Blum Gallery in New York has found a new space at 176 Grand Street, where Little Italy meets SoHo and just a few blocks from the … Read More
  
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• How Julie Kent Is Making Over Washington Ballet

  25-05-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Unlike some incoming directors, Ms. Kent has not tried to remake the company in her image by quickly replacing large numbers of dancers with her recruits. (S he has not let anyone go, though she has added four dancers.) Ruthlessness is not her style.
  
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• Who will win race to run Unesco?

  25-05-2017 23:00
  
  The race to become the next director-general of Unesco is heating up as the candidates for the top job at the UNs education and culture agency have undergone a round of interviews with the body's executive board. In March, Unesco announced that nine nominees are in the running to replace Irina Bokova, who is due to step down in November after eight years at the helm. Videos of interviews are available on Unescos website.
  During its 72-year history, the organisation has had ten directors, seven
  
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• Rising art stars

  25-05-2017 23:00
  
  Jasmine Temple had a very special partner for her prize-winning art project: pigment-producing yeasts. Temple, a lab technician at New York Universitys Langone Medical Center, has won the third annual Agar Art contest, a competition organised and juried by members of the American Society for Microbiology that asks contestants to create works of art from microbes grown on an agar plate (a petri dish that contains a growth medium). The competition was a perfect outlet to create something in tune
  
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• Renaissance royal costumes sparkle again in Dresden

  25-05-2017 23:00
  
  Power dressing during the Renaissance required sequins, embroidery, yards of silk and velvet, lace ruffs and swishy short capes. Fans of the costumes in period television dramas can now go to Dresden to see the genuine articlescodpieces and all.
  Twenty-seven sumptuous outfits once worn by the Saxon electors for weddings, parades and imperial visits have gone on permanent display in the eastern German city for the first time since the Second World War. The exhibition, The Electoral Wardrobe, ope
  
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• Jean Paul Riopelle abstract canvas sells for a record-setting C$7.4m

  25-05-2017 23:00
  
  The Montreal-born painter Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002) stole the show at Heffels Spring sale in Toronto on Wednesday afternoon, when his abstract canvas Vent du nord (1952-53) sold for a record-setting $7.4m (all results in Canadian dollars, including buyers premium). Reaching nearly fives times its high estimate of $1.5m, the oil painting more than doubled the previous record for Riopelle and became the second most expensive work by a Canadian artist to be sold at auction.
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• Goldsmiths ushers in its new Centre for Contemporary Art with monstrous belly worship and some searing sounds

  25-05-2017 23:00
  
  Goldsmiths alumni, students and supporters all gathered at a special dinner on Wednesday night (24 May) to celebrate the past, present and the future of this creative crucible in the gilded 19th century opulence of the Goldsmiths Hall in the City of London. The purpose of the evening was to introduceand drum up support forthe Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (Goldsmiths CCA). This important new gallery will occupy a series of spaces in the heart of universitys south London campus, includi
  
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• ‘Gray Matters’ at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

  25-05-2017 22:22 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Canadian Music Festivals Are Having A Tough Go Right Now

  25-05-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Running outdoor live music events is a tough gig across Canada, especially with the dollar hovering at 74 cents against the US dollar over the past two years, making bargaining for headline bands difficult in a world where the festival circuit is booming both in and outside Canada."
  
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• What Really Determines The Size Of An Orchestra Audience? The Conductor? Program? Place?

  25-05-2017 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Professionally, of course, I’m always interested in the size and composition of whatever audience turns up for a concert. It’s an ongoing fascination to try and work out what factors have gone into a particular turnout. The reality can sometimes be surprising."
  
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• Justin Davidson Mulls The Point Of Criticism After NYT Critic Declines To Review Restaurant And Writes About It Anyway

  25-05-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "No critic can know what another diner brings to the table or an audience member to a concert hall, what vicarious joy—or scorn—a reader draws from a review. Which is why I object to one of Pete Wells’s most ringing self-justifications for taking a pass on this particular restaurant: that the people who eat there are the wrong sort."
  
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• Expo Chicago Announces 2017 Exhibitor List

  25-05-2017 20:54 via artnews.com
  Expo Chicago has announced the exhibitors list for its sixth annual edition, taking place in Navy Pier’s Festival Hall September 13–17.This year’s lineup of 135 galleries—representing 58 cities from 25 different countries—marks the fair’s largest global showing yet. Galleries include such notable newbies … Read More
  
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• Claim: On The West Coast Women Are Getting More Visibility In Opera

  25-05-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “First and foremost, if you ask little girls what a scientist looks like, it’s Einstein. If you ask adults what does a composer look like, they would think of men – like Mozart.  And if you look in the seasons of the major orchestras and opera houses, it’s not some big secret. There is music by women composers, but you have to ask the programmers, the people hiring, the commissioners: Why aren’t they seeking out more women? I don’t know why.”
  
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• Why Terrorists Attack Performance Venues Like The Manchester Arena And The Bataclan

  25-05-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alyssa Rosenberg: "The killers who carry out such acts of terrorism aren't simply launching assaults on Western culture. They're attempting to destroy the particular freedom that comes from surrendering to art, exploiting the very vulnerability that accompanies that surrender."
  
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• Dense American Cities Are Becoming Denser. Less Dense Cities Are Becoming Less Dense

  25-05-2017 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s a clear pattern in which metro areas are becoming more urban: Dense metros are getting denser. Meanwhile, sprawling metro areas are spreading out further. It’s another example of a polarized America, of places becoming more unlike each other: not only with respect to income inequality and politics, but also with growth patterns.
  
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• Headless Statues and Fur-Trimmed Gauntlets: Mamma Andersson’s New Woodcuts Tell Time

  25-05-2017 19:17 via artnews.com
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• The Writers And Directors For 'I Love Dick' Are Mostly Female - And The Sex Scenes Are Wilder Because Of It

  25-05-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Showrunner Jill Soloway and several of the show's actresses, as well as the (male) director of photography, talk about how the different atmosphere on set and in the scripts (yes, including the lack of "the male gaze") makes everyone willing to take bigger risks.
  
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• Marciano Foundation unveiled to the Los Angeles public

  25-05-2017 18:53
  
  The Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles, a private museum run by the founders of Guess Jeans, the brothers Paul and Maurice Marciano, opens to the public today, 25 May.The museum is housed in a former Masonic temple that was retrofitted by the New York architecture firm wHY. It includes around around 55,000 sq. ft of exhibition space, which will be used primarily to present the Marcianos collection of around 1,500 works by 200 artists.The museum opens with two inaugural shows. One, titled Un
  
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• Bacon, Picasso and Woolf to feature on Tate exhibitions calendar

  25-05-2017 18:34
  
  Series of shows across country from next year will feature works by some of world’s best-loved artists Related: Queer British Art review 1861-1967 – strange, sexy, heartwrenching | Adrian Searle Works by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Pablo Picasso, Virginia Woolf and Edward Burne-Jones will feature in a series of exhibitions at the Tate from next year. The artists join a portfolio of names, from the pre-Raphaelite painters to modern film and performance artists, that will feature
  
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• Director Of Arizona Commission On The Arts Resigns

  25-05-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Robert Booker led the state Arts Commission through an often challenging period marked by recession-era budget reductions and major shifts in the state’s public policy environment. Nevertheless, under Booker’s leadership, the Arts Commission distinguished itself as one of the state’s most resilient, responsive, fiscally responsible agencies, and one of the nation’s boldest and most innovative state arts agencies."
  
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• Tate Modern continues to champion female artists with shows on Anni Albers and Joan Jonas in 2018

  25-05-2017 18:24
  
  The Tate has announced its 2018 exhibition programme for its four venues, with two of the three major solo exhibitions at Tate Modern going to female artists, continuing the museums wider trend of showing more female artists. Solo shows of the US video and performance artist Joan Jonas (14 March-5 August 2018) and the textile pioneer and Bauhaus artist Anni Albers (11 October 201813 January 2019) will follow an exhibition of work by Picasso that he made in a single year, Picasso 1932Love, Fame,
  
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• The 90-Year-Old Director Of 'Shoah' Bluffed His Way Into North Korea - Where He Had Once Had A Lover

  25-05-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Claude Lanzmann told the DPRK authorities that he was shooting a film about tae kwon do - and he kept it up with his ever-present government minders, who believed him. In reality, he was revisiting the scene of an affair some 60 years earlier.
  
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• Playwright Threatens Theatre If It Holds Audience Discussions After Performances

  25-05-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  During Outvisible's run of Oleanna, which closed in early April, the creative team (as they apparently do with all of their productions) wanted to host talk back sessions with the audience, who had just seen the show. That was until they received contact from a Dramatists representative, who holds the license to Oleanna, on behalf of David Mamet himself.  According to sources they were notified that if they proceeded to have these talk back sessions or " anything like it were to happen with
  
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• At last: the mayor of Venice recognises the role of the private citizen in defending Venice

  25-05-2017 17:25
  
  Jane da Mosto, a leader of the activist generation of Venetians who have refused to stand by and let their city die, has at last received official recognition from the town council. She has been awarded the Osella dOro prize (called after the gold coin that the doges used to give to the senators). It will be presented on 27 May by Mayor Luigi Brugnaro on the feast of the Sensa, when the ancient ceremony of the marriage between Venice and the Adriatic is re-enacted. The citation praises her
  
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• This Indie Bookstore Got A Year's Worth Of Orders In A Single Day, Thanks To A Tweet

  25-05-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[Bestselling author Shea Serrano] decided on Wednesday to direct his 135,000 Twitter followers to the Carmichael's online store. His goal was to generate 1,000 orders in one day. It took less than five hours."
  
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• True colours: impressions of the Chelsea flower show – in pictures

  25-05-2017 16:55
  
  Photographer Sarah Lee takes a free and abstract brief and concentrates her candid eye on the people, the colour and the tone of the horticultural spectacular, showing the RHS show isn’t just about flowersContinue reading...
  
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• How A Colorado Arts Center Collapsed, As Warnings Were Ignored Or Deflected

  25-05-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Beginning two years ago, not long after a new executive director arrived, staffers and some board members at the Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts began discovering serious financial shenanigans: multiple bank accounts, paid-for items that had never been ordered or delivered, paychecks bouncing. The executive director kept saying things were under control; city officials, repeatedly warned, insisted they could do nothing. Now the exec is gone, the Center is broke and may close, and the police
  
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• A Hole Beyond Measure: Anish Kapoor on His Watery New ‘Descension’ and the Intersection of Meaning and Not-Meaning

  25-05-2017 16:30 via artnews.com
  As part of its 40th-anniversary celebration, the Public Art Fund has brought Anish Kapoor back to New York City. Eleven years ago, the artist’s Sky Mirror became something of a tourist destination when the Public Art Fund installed it at … Read More
  
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• The Gay Period Drama The World Wasn't Ready For: Merchant And Ivory's 'Maurice' At 30

  25-05-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Adapted from a posthumously published EM Forster novel that is likewise overshadowed in reputation by other works in his canon - like, well, Howards End and A Room With a View - Merchant Ivory's film opened hot on the heels of their broadly beloved, Oscar-garlanded adaptation of the latter. Almost immediately, it was filed away as, if not a disappointment, a lesser diversion." But now, in the post-Brokeback, post-Moonlightera and with a new high-def restoration, Guy Lodge argues that the time f
  
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• Merchant And Ivory's Own 45-Year Love Story

  25-05-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As James Ivory, now 89 and still traveling and writing, tells Sarah Larson, "[Ismail] was my life's partner. From the beginning right on down to his final day. I lived openly with him for forty-five years, in New York and wherever else we were. That says what it says."
  
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• Chicago Symphony Denies Tenure To Principal Oboe (And Lawyers Are Now Involved)

  25-05-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alex Klein had been principal oboist at the CSO before - from 1995 to 2004, when he had to resign due to the effects of focal dystonia. After a dozen years of recovery and retooling his technique, Klein re-auditioned for and returned to his old job last year, with the usual two-season probationary period. But the musicians' tenure review committee and music director Riccardo Muti (who has final say) decided last month not to keep Klein on.
  
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• All About the Install: On the Art of Hanging Alexander Calder’s ‘Constellations’ at Pace

  25-05-2017 15:15 via artnews.com
  The working arrangement for “Calder: Constellations”—an elegant, refined, and conscientious presentation of Alexander Calder sculptures at Pace Gallery on East 57th Street in New York—took shape after four bottles of tequila at a basement karaoke fete. Marc Glimcher, Pace’s president, … Read More
  
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• New York City Opera Will Finally Stage The 'Brokeback Mountain' Score It Commissioned

  25-05-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The new group that reorganized City Opera and brought it out of bankruptcy announced Wednesday that it would give Brokeback" - which Gérard Mortier commissioned from composer Charles Wuorinen during that brief period he headed the company before it went bankrupt - "its United States premiere in the spring of 2018, at the end of its second full season back in the business of staging operas."
  
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• Morning Links: Plant-Based Light Design Edition

  25-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Jeff Koons's 'Seated Ballerina' May Have Been, Um, 'Appropriated'

  25-05-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Koons based the 45-foot-tall inflatable, currently installed at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, on his 2015 stainless-steel sculpture of the same name. It turns out that both of them bear the proverbial striking resemblance to a porcelain titled Balerina Lenochka by Oksana Zhnikrup and the The Kiev Experimental Ceramic-Art Factory. (A Koons representative has subsequently claimed that he copied Zhnikrup's work "under license"; no details of this license were provided.)
  
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• Conceptual artist Bernar Venet gets a bigger stage in the UK with three shows this summer

  25-05-2017 14:36
  
  The French conceptual artist Bernar Venet is making a splash in the UK this summer, with his first gallery show in London in more than 40 years; an exhibition of large-scale sculptures at Cliveden country house in Buckinghamshire; and a new work on show in Frieze Sculpture in Regents Park, London.The artist rose to prominence in the 1960s when he began making work based on mathematical and scientific formulae. Bernar Venet: Looking Forward 1961-84, which opens at Londons Blain Southern next mon
  
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• Utah Symphony Keeps Thierry Fischer For Three More Seasons

  25-05-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Fischer's current contract [as music director] was set to expire at the end of the 2018-19 season. The new contract will mean Fischer will continue programming and conducting the Utah Symphony's concerts through the 2021-22 season."
  
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• Barbara Smith Conrad, Mezzo-Soprano Who Figured In Civil Rights Struggle, Dead At 79

  25-05-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It in 1957, her first year at U. Texas-Austin - and the first year black students were admitted as undergrads - that Conrad was cast as Dido, opposite a white student, in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. She was harassed not only by white students but also by state legislators, who threatened to withhold funding from the university if she were not replaced.
  
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• Museum Of African Art In Paris To Shut Down

  25-05-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Musée Dapper in Paris will close its doors next month, with officials citing high costs and low attendance as reasons for shutting the privately funded, non-profit museum of traditional and contemporary African art."
  
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• Hisham Matar's 'The Return' Wins Another Major Award

  25-05-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just last month, this memoir of the author's journey to post-Qaddafi Libya in search of his father won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Now it has received the £20,000 Rathbones Folio Prize - in the first year the honor has been open to both fiction and nonfiction.
  
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• Turkish Authorities Shut Down Magazine For Showing Anti-Erdoğan Graffiti In Background Of Photo

  25-05-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The municipality of metro Istanbul closed 1453 Culture and Art Magazine and fired three editors for "bounderish, disrespectful and provocative content" - that content being a spray-painted "Erdo-gone! Inshallah mashallah (God willing)" on a wall behind a cat. The offending article? A cover story on a popular documentary about the city's street cats.
  
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• Rare historic coins return to Salzburg Museum 70 years after they were looted

  25-05-2017 12:10
  
  Ninety-four coins stolen in 1945 will be returned to the Salzburg Museum at a ceremony in New York tomorrow (May 26), more than 70 years after they were hidden for safekeeping in an Austrian salt mine.The American Numismatic Society bought the coins in 1995 thanks to a donation from Chester L. Krause, a benefactor who suspected they were looted from Austria after the Second World War and wanted to save them from being dispersed on the market and lost. After purchasing the coins, the ANS be
  
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• Former V&A director Martin Roth defends co-curating Azerbaijan pavilion

  25-05-2017 11:26
  
  Amid ongoing criticism surrounding his co-curatorship of the Azerbaijan pavilion at this years Venice Biennale, Martin Roth, the former director of Londons Victoria & Albert Museum, has defended his involvement. Just like the foreign service, the art world also needs to talk to regimes it opposes, he tells The Art Newspaper. "If you no longer speak to each other, everything will be lost, he says. Roth has been attacked in his home country of Germany for working with the Central Asian countr
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.24.17

  25-05-2017 09:04 via feedproxy.google.com
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  I had planned this post before Trevor O’Donnell wrote this: Is Marketing about the Consumer or the Product? Really I had. ... read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-05-23Claudia Quintet In Action
  As pointed out in a Rifftides review earlier this year, drummer John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet ... has unity of thought, purpose and execution more often found in long-lived classical ensembles than in jazz. ... read more
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• Judy Chicago on the Beatles: 'They represent things we have lost – hope and freedom'

  25-05-2017 07:00
  
  For Sgt Pepper’s 50th anniversary, the great psychedelic visionary of feminist art has created a giant mop-top mural inspired by Fixing a Hole – a song that sums up what she has spent her entire career doingWhen American artist Judy Chicago accepted an invitation earlier this year from the Tate to paint a large-scale public mural as part of Liverpool’s Sgt Pepper at 50 celebration of the Beatles’ most popular album, she was amused to hear of an exchange between two of the
  
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• Leadership Programs at Banff Centre

  25-05-2017 06:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Step into your creative potential. Take a Leadership program at Banff Centre this fall.
  Integrating the power of the arts, the wisdom of Indigenous practice, and the beauty of Banff National Park, our leadership programs help participants bring creative and reflective approaches to a rapidly changing world.
  
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• Jeff Koons’s Ballerina caught up in a pas des deux

  25-05-2017 06:03
  
  Jeff Koonss 45-foot-tall inflatable sculpture Seated Ballerina, installed at Rockefeller Center earlier this month (until 2 June), is not only drawing crowds in Manhattan. The kitschy work of appropriation art has also attracted a surprising amount of attention in Ukraine. 
  In a 22 May Facebook post, Lado Pochkhua, a New York-based Georgian artist, pointed out the sculptures striking resemblance to a porcelain figure designed by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Zhnikrup. Zhnikrup, who died in 19
  
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• Jeff Koons’s Ballerina caught up in a pas de deux

  25-05-2017 06:03
  
  Jeff Koonss 45-foot-tall inflatable sculpture Seated Ballerina, installed at Rockefeller Center earlier this month (until 2 June), is not only drawing crowds in Manhattan. The kitschy work of appropriation art has also attracted a surprising amount of attention in Ukraine. 
  In a 22 May Facebook post, Lado Pochkhua, a New York-based Georgian artist, pointed out the sculptures striking resemblance to a porcelain figure designed by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Zhnikrup. Zhnikrup, who died in 19
  
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• The American Writers Museum? A Dead Letter, Says Deanna Isaacs

  25-05-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Longer on gadgetry than on literature, AWM is all about the breezy quote and the glitzy busywork toys that are now the currency of the exhibit industry: push a button, spin a wheel, drag an icon, and the gadgets spit out a thimbleful of data. It's American Lit 101 (and more), the nutshell version. The books? Look up when you first walk in: a lot of them are stapled to a framework hanging just below the ceiling."
  
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