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• Executive Director, Ballet West

  02-06-2017 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ballet West seeks a dynamic and knowledgeable individual to serve as chief executive officer and administrative leader of this prominent professional ballet company. The company of 40 national and international dancers is complemented by a school of over 900 students in four locations.
  Organization: Ballet WestJob Location: Salt Lake City, UT
  The Executive Director will work in partnership with the Artistic Director, Adam Sklute, and the Board to develop and execute the strategic vision that sup
  
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• Putin Compares Hackers To Artists

  02-06-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hackers are free people, just like artists who wake up in the morning in a good mood and start painting,” Putin said.
   
   
  
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• New Recommendations About Screen Time For Children Under Five

  02-06-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Parents and caregivers of children aged five and younger should not only minimize screen time at home but use it mindfully themselves, according to the Canadian Paediatric Society.
  
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• Ron Howard To Direct Pavarotti Biopic

  02-06-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The untitled documentary will be produced with the full cooperation of the Pavarotti Estate, Universal Music Classics and Decca Records. Studiocanal and White Horse Pictures will also oversee international sales while White Horse will direct North American sales. No release date has been set.
  
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• ISIS Using Hollywood Movies In Its Recruiting Efforts

  02-06-2017 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pirating studio films and mimicking Hollywood techniques may be unexpected tools of the anti-West ISIS, but they are defining traits of videos made by Al-Furqan Media, a production company run by ISIS.”
   
  
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• Tate Britain Just Closed The Most Popular Show In Its History

  02-06-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Wednesday Tate said it received 478,082 visitors. That averages at 4,300 visitors each day. Almost 35,000 advance tickets were sold before it even opened, more than any other show in Tate history. Demand to see it led to Tate Britain opening until midnight on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of its final weekend.“
  
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• From the Archives: Peter Saul’s Twisted Allegories Strike a Chord, in 1969

  02-06-2017 21:13 via artnews.com
  Peter Saul’s chaotic paintings feature entangled figures rendered in toxic-looking shades of bubblegum pink, nuclear-waste green, and dandelion yellow. Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and Josef Stalin are recurring characters in these violent works, and religious imagery and references to art … Read More
  
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• Study: More Than 80 Percent Of Artists Represented By NYC’s Top Galleries Are White

  02-06-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What the students found was that in the 2016–17 season, 80.5% of all artists at the top 45 New York galleries were white, though if the statistics are parsed to focus only on US artists, then the percentage climbs to 88.1%. In a country that’s 64% white, that’s a drastic difference.
   
   
  
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• Why A Portland Theatre Wanted To Cast A Black Actor In Virginia Woolf (And Why Edward Albee’s Estate Said No)

  02-06-2017 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Albee Estate wouldn't speak directly to NPR about the decision. Instead, it sent a statement, saying Albee had remarked on several occasions that a mixed-race marriage in the early 1960s would not have gone unnoticed in the script — though Albee did approve the casting of a black actress as the older professor's wife when the playwright was still alive. This is the first time the estate has had to deal with this issue since Albee's death in September 2016.
  
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• Ken Lam Named Music Director Of Illinois Symphony In Springfield

  02-06-2017 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "After a season-long search, Ken Lam has been announced as the new music director for the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, replacing Alastair Willis, who left the position vacant when he ended his contract early back in 2015. ... Lam will continue with his current position as music director with the Charleston [South Carolina] Symphony Orchestra and will be commuting between the two cities."
  
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• V&A reveals plans for photography centre

  02-06-2017 19:43
  
  Londons Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has released the first rendering of its future photography centre, which is planned to open in autumn 2018. David Kohn Architects are converting four 19th-century picture galleries into a versatile, climate-controlled space for the museums expanded photography holdings, displaying original photographs, equipment and archival materials ranging from the 1820s to the present. The project is part of the V&As ongoing FuturePlan development scheme.&nbs
  
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• Maja Bajevic at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich

  02-06-2017 19:42 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• In Britain’s Election, The Parties Are Taking Culture Seriously

  02-06-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Labour will create a £1 billion Cultural Capital Fund to invest in and upgrade the UK’s cultural facilities. It will be among the biggest ever arts infrastructure funds to boost arts, music, theatre, literature and more. We’ll create an arts pupil premium worth £160 million a year, to allow every primary school child in England the chance to learn an instrument, take part in drama and dance and have regular access to a theatre, gallery or museum."
  
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• West Virginia Symphony Names Lawrence Loh Music Director

  02-06-2017 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The new conductor comes to the WVSO from Pennsylvania (he and his family live in New York), where he serves as the music director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. He's also the music director of Symphoria, founded by former members of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, and is the artistic director and principal conductor for the Syracuse Opera."
  
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• Puerto Rico’s New MECA Art Fair Opens in a Debt-Ridden Island Paradise

  02-06-2017 19:02 via artnews.com
  It may not be the best time to launch an art fair in Puerto Rico, where an increasingly dire economic crisis recently forced the U.S. territory to file for bankruptcy to handle its approximately $123 billion in debt. But that didn’t deter Daniel … Read More
  
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for FIAC 2017

  02-06-2017 18:53 via artnews.com
  The FIAC art fair has announced the exhibitor list today for its 2017 edition. Galleries from 26 countries, from Hong Kong to Hungary, will bring work to the 44th edition of the Parisian fair, which opens to the public on … Read More
  
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• Destroyers and Protectors: Siona Benjamin’s Culturally Provocative Paintings Blend Bollywood Flash with Persian Miniature Style

  02-06-2017 18:45 via artnews.com
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• The Age Of The Entrepreneur? The Statistics Say No

  02-06-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  America is producing fewer startups now than previous eras. Fewer jobs are being created by new businesses. And what new companies do exist are hopelessly concentrated among certain industries and geographies. Metros like Los Angeles and New York dominate the scene; most other cities are largely stagnant.
  
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• Jack Shirreff obituary

  02-06-2017 18:25
  
  Master printmaker whose rural atelier caught the vibrancy of artists’ originalsDuring more than 30 years of brilliant and original work at 107 Workshop in Wiltshire, Jack Shirreff, who has died aged 73, established himself as one of the most influential atelier master printmakers of his time. He belonged to the modernist tradition in Paris of Stanley William Hayter, Roger Lacourière and the Crommelynck brothers, Aldo, Piero and Milan – and in London of Stanley Jones at Curwen
  
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• Pope.L Wins Whitney Museum’s $100,000 Bucksbaum Award

  02-06-2017 18:21 via artnews.com
  Although Pope.L’s pungent Whitney Biennial installation may have put some visitors off, its sickly sweet smell didn’t stop the Whitney Museum from naming the Chicago-based artist the winner of this year’s Bucksbaum Award. Given each Biennial year to one participant … Read More
  
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• 'Ibsen Cross-Pollinated With The Marvel Cinematic Universe' - Only It's About Nigerian Immigrants

  02-06-2017 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Diep Tran profiles actress/playwright Mfoniso Udofia and her "Ufot Cycle," a planned series of nine plays. (About two of them, the New York Times'sJesse Green wrote, "[they] offer a moving and powerful corrective to the notion that what immigrants leave behind is always awful, and that what they find is always worth the trip."
  
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• Broken Music: A Show Devoted to Ursula Block Delves Deep into Sound-Art Lore

  02-06-2017 17:35 via artnews.com
  The first trip Ursula Block took to New York was in 1974, and the occasion included spending time in a gallery with Joseph Beuys and a live coyote. The most recent visit came just a few weeks ago—for a sort … Read More
  
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• Hilary Mantel: Women Writers Should Stop Making Female Characters More Powerful Than They Are

  02-06-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Many writers of historical fiction feel drawn to the untold tale. They want to give a voice to those who have been silenced. Fiction can do that, because it concentrates on what is not on the record. But we must be careful when we speak for others... If we write about the victims of history, are we reinforcing their status by detailing it? Or shall we rework history so victims are the winners?”
  
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• Viva Quixotism! In Praise Of Fighting For Hopeless Causes

  02-06-2017 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Quixotism - "adopting the moral courage necessary to fight for lost causes without caring what the world thinks" - can "save people from the paralysis that often accompanies defeatism." Mariana Alessandri argues that "today, when much of society and politics - both in and outside the United States - looks like a lost cause to a great number of people, we might do well to consider Quixote's brand of lunacy."
  
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• Thoreau Wasn't A Righteous, Grumpy Old Recluse - He Was A Sensualist, An Activist, A Social Creature, And A Kitten Rescuer

  02-06-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Holland Cotter, who loved Thoreau in his youth and then fell away, visits an exhibit at the Morgan Library and discovers that the writer was attuned to and thrilled by sound and touch and taste, a devoted family man (thoughunmarried himself) whom children loved, and such a committed abolitionist that his family house was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
  
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• Why The Bank Of England Made Its Staff Study Dr. Seuss

  02-06-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[Professionals at] the central bank analysed the children's author after finding that just one in five people could read and understand its inflation report." Said a former deputy governor there, "Dr. Seuss was a master at using simple language, at getting children to read."
  
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• If The Met Can Charge Out-Of-Towners Mandatory Admission, Then London's Museums Can Do It, Too

  02-06-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Everywhere else in Europe does it. We know it makes sense. Charging is valuing. It is hardly a mortal sin." Simon Jenkins makes the case.
  
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• Emmett Till, The Hanging Of Native Americans, And Who Gets To Make Art About Them

  02-06-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Central to both cases" - Dana Schutz's Open Casket, over which there was a noisy controversy at the Whiney Biennial, and Sam Durant's Scaffold, now being removed from the Walker Art Center's sculpture garden - "are issues of cultural appropriation and artistic freedom. Should white artists, no matter how well intentioned, represent harrowing stories that are not their own to tell? Conversely, should any subject matter be off-limits to artists because of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual ori
  
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• Why Eliminating The NEA Would Hurt Rural Americans Most

  02-06-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In reality, the NEA has an outsized impact in rural communities and less densely populated states, where funding from private foundations and wealthy philanthropists is harder to obtain." What's more, "the NEA's outsized impact on rural areas and less densely populated regions is reinforced by the way it distributes the funding it provides directly to states."
  
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• Morning Links: Art Basel Adidas Edition

  02-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• David Hallberg Lands Spokesmodel Contract With Nike

  02-06-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The $32 billion sports brand has asked him to model for its latest campaign for NikeLab's all-conditions gear in both still and video ads."
  
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• Dust on a Duchamp, Grayson's pots and radical painting – the week in art

  02-06-2017 14:34
  
  Richard Wright beguiles Glasgow, modern art takes London, and a dog urinates in New York – all in your weekly dispatchA Handful of DustContinue reading...
  
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• L.A. Dance Project's Memorial Day Weekend Livestreams Reached More Than 500,000 People

  02-06-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The most popular segment of the series, transmitted from the company's residency at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, drew 211,300 views by itself. "What's interesting is that this livestream wasn't what we're typically used to: It was more of a live dance film happening in real time than an intimate peek in on rehearsal."
  
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• Conductor Jiří Bělohlávek Dead At 71

  02-06-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Although Bělohlávek," who served as chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic (twice) and of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, "started out as a student of the cello, he became the greatest conductor of the Czech repertoire after Václav Talich and Václav Neumann."
  
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• Florence Declares War On Tourists Eating Sandwiches

  02-06-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Eat a sandwich on the steps of our cathedral and we'll turn a hose on you. That’s the warning from Florence this week, where Mayor Dario Nardella is sick of visitors picnicking on the steps the Cathedral of Santa Maria Dei Fiore."
  
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• The Icelandic Publisher That Prints Books Only At The Full Moon, Sells Them Only That Night, Burns The Remainders, And Calls It All A 'Poetic Act'

  02-06-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Why? While most books can survive centuries or even millennia, Tunglið - as its two employees tell me - 'uses all the energy of publishing to fully charge a few hours instead of spreading it out over centuries ... For one glorious evening, the book and its author are fully alive. And then, the morning after, everyone can get on with their lives.'"
  
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• Maria Balshaw starts as overall Tate director

  02-06-2017 13:38
  
  Maria Balshaw started work yesterday (1 June) as director of Tate, taking over from Nick Serota, who had held the post for 29 years. She began by greeting most of the London-based staff who gathered at Tate Britain, before going on to meet groups from different departments and ending with a reception for selected journalists.Balshaw, who was director of Manchester Art Gallery and the Whitworth Art Gallery, is getting to know staff at the UKs largest museum, in terms of employees. Already it is
  
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• France's Longest-Serving TV Anchor Abruptly Fired By State Broadcaster

  02-06-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For 16 years, David Pujadas has been the face of primetime news on [France Télévisions] ... In a surprise announcement, France 2 said Pujadas's long broadcast career with the channel would be coming to an end. ... The news came the day after Pujadas's 8pm news programme recorded its highest audience of the season, beating its closest rival, the private channel TF1."
  
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• Art Basel files first lawsuit in the US—and it’s against Adidas

  02-06-2017 13:22
  
  Art Basel and its Swiss parent company MCH are suing Adidas over limited-edition trainers that the German sportswear giant designed using the art fairs trademark and distributed during Art Basel Miami Beach last year. It is the first time that Art Basel has filed a lawsuit in the US, according to national records. In the complaint, filed in Florida on 30 May, Art Basel accuses Adidas of diluting the distinctiveness and value of [its] famous mark and misrepresenting an affiliation with the
  
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• The oblong and winding road: Mondrian's tortured journey to gridlock genius

  02-06-2017 13:00
  
  Visitors to the Hague’s blockbuster show should not be put off by his early flowers and windmills. They are the key to understanding this geometric master who found rectangles in everythingIs it a skull or a flower? The rounded white shape that sags on a listless stem in the painting is the dying bloom of a chrysanthemum, yet it eerily resembles a human head stripped to the bone. A ghostly eye socket seems to peer out of it. What can Piet Mondrian have been thinking when he painted this mo
  
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• Eric Ravilious’s The Westbury Horse: the collision of old and new

  02-06-2017 13:00
  
  This 1939 painting outlines Britain’s changing identity in the interwar period, the pastoral chalk steed contrasting with the iron one chugging in the backgroundThere are actually two horses in this well-known painting by the early-20th century artist and designer Eric Ravilious: the chalk horse on the lush green hillside and the chugging iron one. Continue reading...
  
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• Cornelia Parker wants children to tweet Trump about climate change

  02-06-2017 12:34
  
  We must stop Trump, declared the UK artist Cornelia Parker yesterday, 1 June, reminding the audience at the inaugural Norman Foster Foundation forum held in Madrids Teatro Real that the US president had promised to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris climate change deal. Few among the leading architects, designers, curators, economists, technocrats and philanthropists assembled needed reminding.
  Because of President Trumps social medium of choice, Parker urged the parents at the forum to e
  
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• Aros Triennial unveils swathe of new commissions along five kilometres of Danish coastline

  02-06-2017 12:01
  
  The inaugural Aros Triennial takes centre stage this week in the northern Danish town of Aarhus, which has been selected as this years European Capital of Culture. The triennial, called The Garden: End of Times, Beginning of Times, covers the past 400 years. The triennial will thematise mans coexistence with, and view on, nature, says Erlend Hyersten, the director of the Aros Aarhus Art Museum, which has organised the exhibition.The triennial is split into two parts: The Past (until 10 Septembe
  
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• Richard Wright and Grayson Perry: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  02-06-2017 10:30
  
  The Scottish minimalist unveils a beguiling environmental artwork, while rude pots and satirical wall hangings are the focus of the ceramicist’s new showScotland’s minimalist Michelangelo creates another beguiling environmental artwork. Wright uses paint, drawing, gilding and stained glass to shape delicate, suggestive, site-specific installations that simultaneously revel in tradition – recreating the lost arts of fresco and Renaissance perspective – and express the thro
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.01.17

  02-06-2017 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Belonging gone bad
  The idea of “belonging” has long been a key point of aspiration and advocacy for the arts. Art builds empathy. Art builds community. Art infuses a sense of belonging into a world so desperate for ... read more
  AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2017-06-01Other Matters: Meet The Stamps Quartet
  As I was writing liner notes for the next album by Cyrus Chestnut, the research led me to a remarkable performance of its title song. Published in 1989, “Sweet, S
  
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• Sheep bones, glitter and shaving cream: the bold, divergent art of the under-40s

  02-06-2017 05:17
  
  Finalists in Ramsay art prize, which awards $100,000 to a young artist, show the future of Australian art is far more than paintings by white menCeleste Chandler’s Heroic Painting, a series of self-portraits in which the artist has painted herself with facial hair crafted from shaving foam, emulates our understanding of the form. Her 15 faces are serious and thoughtful, the image of the intelligent and respected artist, the male signature of facial hair sitting slightly oddly against her f
  
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• Global Super-Group Orchestra Convenes In Toronto

  02-06-2017 00:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They’ve come from all over the globe — China, Pakistan, Mexico, Greece — to make music in a new world. Twelve musicians, many of them playing ancient instruments from their home countries, show off their talents Friday night as the New Canadian Global Music Orchestra in a concert at Koerner Hall.
  
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