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• Markus Lüpertz: Why The Public Doesn't Get What Artists Do

  05-06-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In this moment—if everyone painted, and if everyone was more intelligent—we could all paint the greatest pictures, because we have unparalleled freedom. But nobody accepts it. Only us old sacks of shit live with it. But the youth isn’t interested. They’d rather save the world from extinction, or stop the poles from melting—that’s all nonsense."
  
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• Sugar Hill Children’s Museum Names Lauren Kelley Executive Director

  05-06-2017 23:22 via artnews.com
  Lauren Kelley, the associate director of curatorial programs at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling in New York, will now be the Harlem institution’s executive director. Kelley replaces Suzy Delvalle, the museum’s founding director before her departure last June … Read More
  
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• Report: Enrollment In Humanities At American Universities Is Significantly Down

  05-06-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The trend is likely to alarm humanities professors and many others in academe. Many humanities departments have found themselves struggling to maintain tenure-track faculty lines and, in some cases, to continue departments. Humanities professors are quick to note that their departments play crucial roles in general education for students from a range of majors.
  
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• Hard Brexit could damage UK’s world-class museums

  05-06-2017 23:00
  
  Almost 400 members of staff at the British Museum, at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and across the Tates four galleriesaround 15% of the workforce in each institutionface an uncertain future during Brexit negotiations, after which the end of the free movement of labour between the UK and the European Union (EU) seems inevitable. The main political parties stress that they want to guarantee existing rights, but the issue is unresolved as the UK goes to the polls on Thursday (8 June) t
  
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• Frick Collection Moves Pay-What-You-Wish Hours to Wednesday Afternoons

  05-06-2017 22:52 via artnews.com
  Starting this July, the Frick Collection in New York will being offering pay-what-you-wish admission on Wednesday afternoons, from 2 to 6 p.m. Previously, the museum had applied that admissions policy to Sunday mornings, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.In a … Read More
  
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• Going To The Movies Used To Be A Cultural Experience. It's Losing That Resonance

  05-06-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Going to the movies” is a Proustian madeleine, a series of pencil marks on a doorjamb, a solution to crises ranging from heartbreak to parental exhaustion, a way of being separate but together, present yet adrift. It’s also something people don’t do as often as they once did.
  
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• Condo New York, a Networked Co-Op Project, Brings 20 Galleries from Elsewhere to Manhattan

  05-06-2017 22:15 via artnews.com
  Simone Subal knows her relatively small gallery will never compete with the mega-spaces of the New York art world like Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner, but that’s OK. “It’s just not my general nature to be a cutthroat person,” … Read More
  
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• America's "Most Important Orchestra" Finishes Its Season (But Uncertainty Lies Ahead)

  05-06-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
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• ‘A Seed of Healing and Change’: Native Americans Respond to Sam Durant’s ‘Scaffold’

  05-06-2017 22:00 via artnews.com
  Scaffold, a now storied sculpture by Sam Durant, appeared in the Walker Art Center’s much-loved sculpture garden next to the sugary sweet Spoonbridge and Cherry, a local landmark by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The ’80s-era Pop icon is … Read More
  
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• Why Not An Arts Think Tank? There Have Been Models

  05-06-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "While a University affiliated Think Tank, with research fellows and a management staff, has to have income and a budget, it may be possible with today's technology to run a tighter ship with more volunteer input.  It may not be necessary for a bricks and mortar home base, but rather operate as a virtual entity, and it may not have to re-invent the wheel of all the activity already going on.  Whereas the model for an Arts Think Tank has changed, so too has the model for its funding."
  
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• Baltimore Symphony Reaches New Contract Agreement With Players Three Months Early

  05-06-2017 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Like the agreement reached last year, the new one, which begins Sept. 11 and runs until Sept. 9, 2018, includes a pay raise. Minimum weekly scale will rise from $1,560 to $1,591.20.
  
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• Forrest Bess and Joan Snyder at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles

  05-06-2017 20:54 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• From Broccoli to Toilet Paper: Martin Creed’s Accumulations Fill the Voorlinden Museum

  05-06-2017 20:39 via artnews.com
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• From Broccoli to Toilet Paper: Martin Creed’s Accumulations Fill the Museum Voorlinden

  05-06-2017 20:39 via artnews.com
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• Can You Measure Arts Engagement? New Academic Paper Says Not Really

  05-06-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The paper states that using indicators and benchmarks to assess cultural activities, “which exhibit no obvious capacity for scalar measurement”, is a “political act”. The “ostensible neutrality” of this approach is, they say, “a trick of the light trying to launder responsibility for judgment in the competition for scarce resources”.
  
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• La Vie en Vaped Rosé: Bushwick’s Signal Gallery Takes Over the Surf Lodge in Montauk

  05-06-2017 20:10 via artnews.com
  For years, the Surf Lodge in Montauk has been trying to get the artist Richard Phillips to show work in its gallery space. The pairing would make sense: Phillips is a surfer, and artists often agree to shows at the Surf … Read More
  
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• Robert Schenkkan's Anti-Trump Play Found An Audience Around America. In New York Not So Much. Why?

  05-06-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Schenkkan’s purpose seems to have been understood and appreciated as Building the Wall was produced around the country over the past few months, first as a National New Play Network rolling world premiere by Fountain Theatre in California; Curious Theatre Company in Colorado’ Forum Theatre in DC; Borderlands Theater in Arizona; and City Theatre in Florida. But some prominent voices reacted differently when the play opened recently at New York’s New World Stages, in a
  
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• Why Sofia Coppola Winning Cannes' Best Director Prize Isn't As Great As It Might Be

  05-06-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Because it’s not winning the Palme d’Or. In the screwy universe of Cannes awards, Coppola actually got the equivalent of fourth place, behind the third-place Jury Prize winner, Loveless (directed by a Russian man); the second-place Grand Prix winner, 120 Beats Per Minute (directed by a French man); and the Palme d’Or victor, The Square (directed by a Swedish man). Best Director is considered such a nonessential prize — unlike those other three — that there have bee
  
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• Technological Change Quickly Makes The Present Obsolete. So What's A Novelist To Do?

  05-06-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "We live in a world where occupations that once seemed reliably perennial, like clerking in a retail store, are suddenly teetering on the brink of extinction. For novelists, whose work typically takes at least a year (and often much longer) to produce, delivering an up-to-date depiction of contemporary life must be a maddeningly elusive goal."
  
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• Philippe de Montebello: Museums Are Losing Their Way If They Become Entertainment

  05-06-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "One can be taught—and one needs to be taught—how to look, how to put aside one’s prejudices, and one’s overly hasty negative reactions. For me, in some cases, it was a long learning process, and I have to imagine that for a majority of visitors it can’t be easy either. This is why I am so impatient with those who want to position their museum as a form of entertainment. The appreciation of art requires an engagement that is wholly different from the instant gratifi
  
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• Martin Scorsese: The Particular Art Of Making A Movie

  05-06-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Over the years, I’ve grown used to seeing the cinema dismissed as an art form for a whole range of reasons: it’s tainted by commercial considerations; it can’t possibly be an art because there are too many people involved in its creation; it’s inferior to other art forms because it “leaves nothing to the imagination” and simply casts a temporary spell over the viewer (the same is never said of theatre or dance or opera, each of which require the viewer to exp
  
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• Nigerian Music Is Having A Moment - But Pirates Are Stealing It

  05-06-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Nigerian music — Afrobeats in particular — is having a moment. It blares in hotel lobbies, airport lounges, nightclubs and the dozens of bedroom recording studios where young men and women dream of stardom in this clogged, overheated city. While many countries have courts or jurists focused on intellectual property cases, artists in Nigeria have only in recent years begun to pursue copyright protection. They complain that laws to protect them are so seldom invoked that some judges d
  
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• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Appoints Valerie Cassel Oliver Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

  05-06-2017 17:21 via artnews.com
  The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has appointed Valerie Cassel Oliver as its new curator of modern and contemporary art. Upon assuming her position on July 7, Cassel Oliver will oversee the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art, with a … Read More
  
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• The Knitting Spies Of WWI, WWII And Beyond

  05-06-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For instance: "Phyllis Latour Doyle, secret agent for Britain during World War II, spent the war years sneaking information to the British using knitting as a cover. She parachuted into occupied Normandy in 1944 and rode stashed bicycles to troops, chatting with German soldiers under the pretense of being helpful—then, she would return to her knitting kit, in which she hid a silk yarn ready to be filled with secret knotted messages, which she would translate using Morse Code equipment."
  
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• Acme Gallery in Los Angeles To Close After 22 Years

  05-06-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  After 22 years in business, Los Angeles’s Acme gallery will close, according to online posts by sources including two artists represented by the gallery.Opened in 1994 on Santa Monica, Acme was founded by Robert Gunderman and Randy Sommer, both of … Read More
  
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• Seattle Art Fair Adds Daily Dialogues and Special Projects, Featuring Jenny Holzer and W.I.T.C.H.

  05-06-2017 16:55 via artnews.com
  The third edition of the Seattle Art Fair—slated for August 3–6 at the CenturyLink Field Event Center adjacent to the big stadium that plays home to the Seattle Seahawks—has added a slate of programming to support the presentations of 84 exhibitors from … Read More
  
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• Taking 'Great Comet' From Cabaret To Broadway

  05-06-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  First there was the experimental 87-seat Hell's Kitchen theatre, then the specially constructed tent in the Meatpacking District, then a 540-seat theatre in Boston, and finally Broadway's Imperial Theatre - and the designers had to figure out how to replicate, or imitate, or alter, the original design for each venue. Director Rachel Chavkin: "I can say with confidence that we never would have made this if it had started in a Broadway house, or even with that as our intention."
  
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• Should Theatres Have Intermissions? A TV Producer Says They Just Force People To Drink 'The Worst Red Wine'

  05-06-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steven Moffat, showrunner for Doctor Who: "That really spoils the evening when they stop the show and give you the worst red wine you have ever drunk in a crowd of people who just want the show to keep going."
  
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• Shooting For Terry Gilliam's 'Don Quixote' Movie Wraps About 28 Years Later Than Planned

  05-06-2017 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We won't have this legendary series of mishaps to kick around anymore: "The former Monty Python member has been working on the project since 1989, persevering through setbacks so numerous that they inspired a documentary about the ill-starred project, 2002’s 'Lost in La Mancha.'" Instead, we'll actually have the movie.
  
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• What Malevich and Judd had in common

  05-06-2017 15:37
  
  An exhibition opening at Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich this weekend puts the artists work side by side at the gallery for the first time since 1994 (Judd/ Malevich, until 15 September). Judd exhibited his work alongside Malevichs when the gallery was still based in Moscow. Titled The Moscow Installation, this was the last exhibition that Judd organised before his death in February of that year. Donald Judd's son Flavin Judd has organised the show. I try to
  
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• Can A Novelist Save The Struggling - But Formerly Influential - Sewanee Review?

  05-06-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The journal, which once published works by literary giants like Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stevens, was nearly moribund. When [novelist Adam] Ross was approached to apply for the position, the review had just a few hundred subscribers, and virtually no web presence. Its plain blue cover hadn’t changed since 1944. Reviving it seemed daunting."
  
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• Banksy Offers Free Limited Edition Print To Britons Who Vote Against Tories

  05-06-2017 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's probably illegal to take photos of your ballot in the UK, but Banksy wrote to people in six recent Conservative strongholds, "Simply send in a photo of your ballot paper from polling day showing you voted against the Conservative incumbent and this complimentary gift will be mailed to you."
  
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• The Proust Of Portugal (Whom You Likely Haven't Heard Of)

  05-06-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jose María de Eça de Quierós "established his reputation with his tense and claustrophobic first novel, The Crime of Father Amaro. It is a debut that’s also not one: it was twice seriously revised after publication. (Among other changes, the third edition is almost five times as long as the first.)"
  
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• Morning Links: Rashid Johnson in Rural England Edition

  05-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• The Benefits Of Being An Older Ballerina (Yes, Even Into Their 40s)

  05-06-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When you've been a principal for decades, one dancer says, 'You hone your craft as you go. All the years of experience come into play when I approach any role, all of that muscle memory and stamina is in your body.' ... After years of repetition, she says, 'You’re able to focus and dig deeper. Once you have the technical mastery under your belt, your focus is freed.'"
  
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• If You Give An Artist An Ellsworth Kelly Painting To Work Off Of, This Is What Can Result

  05-06-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Glenn Ligon took the Kelly painting "Blue Black" at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis and then pulled together a show that pulls together disparate artists in what Ligon calls "a meander." He says, not being a curator, "I’m not bound by chronology or genre. It’s about encounters and collisions. I’m an artist, too. I have my work in juxtaposition with other work in the show. That’s a luxury I can do."
  
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• A New Play Is Inspired By The Shakespearean Dilemma Of A Refugee Actor In Australia

  05-06-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Playwright Charles Smith happened upon the story while watching his own plays. The new "is based on the true story of a young actor named Shedrick Yarkpai. Smith met Yarkpai when a theater company in Adelaide, Australia, produced two of Smith's plays with Yarkpai in the lead." Then, at lunch, the entire double-identity, maybe double-jeopardy plot revealed itself when Yarkpai talked about how he got to Australia. (2017 ironic twist: The actor couldn't get a visa to come to Chicago to see the play
  
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• Progress For Women In Hollywood Has Come Far Too Slowly, But 'Wonder Woman' May Speed It Up

  05-06-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Of course, "the real currency in Hollywood is less principle than success. And that’s why there’s so much hope attached to the 'Wonder Woman' premiere — that its success with audiences of all genders and ages would bring the 'knockout punch' persuading Hollywood to give more female directors a break."
  
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• The 'Saddest Buildings In Britain' Are Looking For Buyers (And Fixers)

  05-06-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A charity in Britain is pushing people to buy and restore buildings like the Tonedale Mills in Somerset. "The original timber structure was built in 1754, and rebuilt in brick after a fire in 1821. At its peak, making wool serge, and later khaki dye for army uniforms, it was the largest mill in the south-west, employing more than 3,600 people. Plans for redevelopment were stymied when the housing market collapsed in the 2008 financial crash."
  
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• Former Louvre director Pierre Rosenberg to donate Old Masters collection to French town

  05-06-2017 13:45
  
  Pierre Rosenberg, the former director of the Louvre, has announced plans to donate his vast collection of paintings and drawings dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries to the town of Les Andelys in Normandy, northern France. Rosenbergs holdings include around 800 paintings and more than 3000 drawings. He also plans to donate his archive under the new initiative.The town council has subsequently backed plans to turn a care home known as lHotel de Penthivre (Hpital Saint-Jacques) into a museu
  
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• Senior Curator

  05-06-2017 12:37
  Responsibilities
          Specialist management of the collection
          Planning and realization of exhibitions
          Development of national and international networks, and external representation of the museum
          Participation in departmental meetings, project work, and internal liaising
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• Curator/Senior Curator

  05-06-2017 12:37
  The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design possess the countrys most comprehensive collection of art, architecture, and design and receives about 750,000 visitors every year. A new museum complex is under construction in central Oslo, and when opened in 2020 it will be one of the largest art museums in Northern Europe. With a vision of inspiring new generations of art lovers, we wish to engage a broad and diverse audience in a daring, playful, generous, and informative way.
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• Iñárritu's VR project brings terrifying experiences of migrants and refugees to life

  05-06-2017 11:14
  
  How does it feel to cross the desert from Mexico into the United States while being hunted by US border patrol agents? To leave behind your family, friends and the only life you have ever known in the hopes of finding a better future? Or to flee violence and terror back home only to be terrorised once again by the experience of trying to enter America?
   
  A new, hugely ambitious, virtual reality project by Alejandro G. Irritu, the Oscar-winning film director of The Revenant and Birdman, str
  
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• Iñárritu's virtual reality project brings the terrifying experiences of migrants and refugees to life

  05-06-2017 11:14
  
  How does it feel to cross the desert from Mexico into the United States while being hunted by US border patrol agents? To leave behind your family, friends and the only life you have ever known in the hopes of finding a better future? Or to flee violence and terror back home only to be terrorised once again by the experience of trying to enter America?
   
  A new, hugely ambitious, virtual reality project by Alejandro G. Irritu, the Oscar-winning film director of The Revenant and Birdman, str
  
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• German parliament approves plan for unification memorial in Berlin

  05-06-2017 10:57
  
  The German parliament approved plans to build a Memorial to Freedom and Unity in central Berlin, with an ambitious timetable that envisages the monuments inauguration on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 2019.Designed by the Stuttgart-based architect Johannes Milla and the Berlin choreographer Sasha Waltz, the monument will commemorate the protest movement that toppled the East German communist regime and led to the reunification of Germany in 1990.&nbs
  
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• What English people do on Sunday – in pictures

  05-06-2017 08:00
  
  Photographer Matt Writtle has spent years documenting the habits of a nation on its traditional day of rest, to see how that reflects the nature of society. Now he plans to publish the results as a book, Sunday: A Portrait of 21st Century England, crowdfunded via Kickstarter Continue reading...
  
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• Guaranteed to raise a smile! Our pop critic's verdict on Liverpool's Sgt Pepper celebrations

  05-06-2017 06:30
  
  Lucy in the Sky fireworks, A Day in the Life of the living dead, Lovely Rita’s parking meter parade … Beatlemania is gripping Liverpool. Our writer dives inAmong the selection of vast advertising hoardings lining Liverpool’s Erskine Street, one currently stands out. If you’re driving into the city, it suddenly confronts you with an immense black and white image of the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, in profile, his hand resting on his chin, as if listening intentl
  
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