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• Tezontle at Peana Projects, Monterrey, Mexico

  07-06-2017 23:37 via artnews.com
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• After 33 Years, Off-Broadway's Pearl Theatre Files Bankruptcy And Closes

  07-06-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Off Broadway troupe’s demise reflected both financial pressures faced by many small performing arts organizations these days, and a series of missteps that the Pearl had made.
  
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• Sony Introduces "Clean" Versions Of Its Movies Taking Out Spicy Language, Scenes

  07-06-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Clean Version allows viewing for a wider audience, giving people the chance to watch their favorite films together,” Sony said. “Clean Version movies can be accessed with purchase of the theatrical versions.”
  
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• Souls Grown Deep expands the canon of US art

  07-06-2017 23:00
  
  What does it mean to have an American art collection? The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) had this question in mind in February, when it acquired 62 works from the Atlanta-based Souls Grown Deep Foundation, which promotes contemporary African-American artists of the South from beyond the gallery or art school system. FAMSFs De Young museum has cleared its Modern and contemporary galleries for its new exhibition dedicated to the trove, Revelations: Art from the American South (until 1
  
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• Souls Grown Deep expands the canon of American art

  07-06-2017 23:00
  
  What does it mean to have an American art collection? The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) had this question in mind in February, when it acquired 62 works from the Atlanta-based Souls Grown Deep Foundation, which promotes contemporary African-American artists of the South from beyond the gallery or art school system. FAMSFs De Young museum has cleared its Modern and contemporary galleries for its new exhibition dedicated to the trove, Revelations: Art from the American South (until 1
  
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• Peabody Essex Museum turns to neuroscience

  07-06-2017 23:00
  
  The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, has hired the worlds first full-time neuroscientist in an art museum. Tedi Asher, whose graduate research at Harvard Medical School focused on the neurobiology of aggression, will develop ways to enhance the quality and impact of peoples experience of art, says the museums director and chief executive, Dan Monroe. Her one-year post is funded by the Boston-based Barr Foundation.
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• Grayson Perry bites and strokes the hands that feed him at Serpentine preview

  07-06-2017 23:00
  
  Grayson Perry was amiably biting the hands that feed him at yesterdays (8 June) VIP preview lunch for his teasingly-titled Serpentine show, The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! Resplendent in a diaphanous blue frock, gold peep-toe platforms and clutching a canary yellow handbag donated by the show sponsors Mulberrywhich he said made him feel like a gnarled 57 year old Alexa Chungthe worlds most famous transvestite potter whipped the well-heeled crowd of Serp patrons on a whirlwind persona
  
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• Artoon by Pablo Helguera, June 2017

  07-06-2017 23:00
  
  See related story: Peabody Essex in Massachusetts becomes worlds first art museum to hire a full-time neuroscientistFor more Artoons click here to see our online collection
  
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• A panoply of plastic poses: on Emma Hamilton

  07-06-2017 23:00
  
  No life perhaps better exemplifies the potential for an attractive woman in the 18th century, but also the perils sure to stalk her, than that of Emma Hamilton (1765-1815). In her successive incarnations as Amy Lyon, Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton and, finally, mother to Admiral Nelsons daughter Horatia, she embodied social mobility of the most rapid upward sort, but the downward curve that followed was no less steep and spectacular.
  The daughter of a Cheshire blacksmith, Amy or Emy soon found herself
  
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• St. Louis Symphony Picks Stéphane Denève As Its Next Music Director

  07-06-2017 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Denève, 45, will be the SLSO's 13th music director, with an initial three-year term beginning in the 2019-20 season. Denève, a guest conductor with the orchestra seven times beginning in 2003, will serve as music director designate during the 2018-2019 season. He will succeed David Robertson, whose notable 13-year tenure as music director concludes at the end of the 2017-2018 season."
  
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• United Airlines Employee Tries To Wrestle Musician's 17th Century Violin Away From Her

  07-06-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Without provocation, the supervisor for the Chicago-based carrier then lunged for Ms. Correia’s case and, incredibly, tried to wrestle it away from the musician,” said a statement written by MacNaughton. “I start screaming, ‘Help, help, help, can somebody record what’s happening because this lady’s trying to take my personal suitcase from me,’” Correia told Houston NBC-affiliate KPRC.
  
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• Two Big Music Festival Failures Have Some Wondering If The Indie Festival Boom Has Peaked

  07-06-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "According to bankruptcy filings, the Pemberton festival lost money for three years, and sold 18,000 tickets in 2017, down from 38,000 last year. Event planners say it typically takes several years for a festival to become profitable – a threshold many cannot reach given the proliferation of rival events and the repetition of headliner acts."
  
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• Worrying Can Be Good For You (Sometimes)

  07-06-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It can be a motivator to do what needs to be done, and (like banging your head against the wall) you can feel much better after you stop. The key, as usual, is moderation.
  
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• Why Your Next Creative Collaborator Might Be An AI

  07-06-2017 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The computer learns by having another algorithm—a teacher—progressively introduce constraints—here are different available instruments, these are chords, this what it means to sing in soprano. In essence, the algorithm is replicating Bach’s creativity based, not evolving its own creative genius. As such, AI algorithms are best suited to be creative collaborators."
  
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• Gurlitt Without Gurlitt: Work at Neue Galerie in Kassel Addresses Documenta 14’s Failed Attempt to Secure Trove of Nazi-Looted Art

  07-06-2017 20:04 via artnews.com
  How could Adam Szymczyk and his curatorial team turn the loss of a grand unveiling into a boon?Read More
  
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• How Recognizing People's Faces Works In The Brain

  07-06-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As far as your neurons are concerned, a face is a sum of separate parts, as opposed to a single structure."
  
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• The Grand Tour 2017

  07-06-2017 19:56 via artnews.com
  Follow ARTnews writers as they travel the Grand Tour circuit from Venice to Documenta to Basel and beyond. Read More
  
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• Pulse Contemporary Art Fair Director Helen Toomer Exits, Katelijne De Backer Enters

  07-06-2017 19:40 via artnews.com
  Pulse Contemporary Art Fair director Helen Toomer is stepping down from her post, with Katelijne De Backer, recently the director of Art New York and Aqua Art Miami, to take her place next month. Toomer will join the Pulse Advisory Committee, while De … Read More
  
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• Former Washington Ballet Director To Lead Hong Kong Ballet

  07-06-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The relationship with Hong Kong Ballet, a company of about 50 dancers, grew out of a planned tour to the territory with the Washington Ballet about three years ago, Septime Webre said. The tour fell through, but later on the agent for the trip alerted Webre to the company’s search for a director. Webre will replace Madeleine Onne, director since 2009.
  
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• Remaking Irish Step Dancing (Let's Loosen Up That Torso!)

  07-06-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Anyone who thinks that Irish dance is a necessarily rigid form, defined by a stiff upper body and dancers moving in militaristic unison, should spend some time watching Colin Dunne."
  
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• How Toronto Quickly Built A $2 Billion Movie Industry

  07-06-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In 2008, when Pinewood first opened, production in the city descended to an ominous low of $499 million. Contrast that to 2016 when film and television production soared to a remarkable $2.01 billion. It is the third record-setting year in a row, up from $1.5 billion in 2015. And this year, based on interviews with producers, studio owners, unions and the city, that figure is on track to be eclipsed."
  
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• Turkey's First (And Only) Queer Choir Keeps Hope Alive Through Erdoğan's Crackdown

  07-06-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The small coastal city of Mersin ... is one of the last places you would expect to find Turkey's first and only LGBTQ choir, but that choir is on the front lines of the fight for LGBTQ and other minority rights in the country of 80 million."
  
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• Katie Hollander Steps Down as Executive Director of Creative Time

  07-06-2017 17:36 via artnews.com
  Creative Time, the New York–based arts nonprofit dedicated to creating public art commissions, announced that Katie Hollander will step down next month as the organization’s executive director. Creative Time’s deputy director, Alyssa Nitchun, will serve as acting director in the … Read More
  
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• Olivia Parker's best photograph: an early warning of Alzheimer's

  07-06-2017 17:35 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘It was only after John died that I realised these were an early sign of his illness’They say Alzheimer’s starts way before you notice it. But there are little things. Although my husband John died last year, it wasn’t until quite recently that I noticed this photograph – and realised what it meant. It was taken in 2004, seven years before I actually recognised John was ill. At the time, I would notice things, but he’d explain them away. He had stopped reading
  
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• Whoever Wins This Week's UK Election, It Could Be Good For The Arts

  07-06-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In a surprise move, both the Conservative and Labour parties have made manifesto pledges to create a new funding stream for the arts."
  
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• Documenta 14 Opens in Kassel with Fiery, Combative Press Conference as Curators Pledge to Fight Neo-Fascism

  07-06-2017 17:30 via artnews.com
  Directors and curators took the stage to greet early arrivers to an exhibition timed with crisis. Read More
  
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• Lars Jan scoops latest Audemars Piguet art commission

  07-06-2017 17:18
  
  The artist fortunate enough to have bagged the latest Audemars Piguet art commission has been announced. The accolade goes to the Los Angeles-based artist Lars Jan who made waves last week with his Holoscenes installation in Times Square, New York (the piece, presented with Times Square Arts, comprised a twelve-ton tank of water filled with somersaulting performers, highlighting issues around climate change). Jan's work consistently includes an element of technical complexity that mirrors the cr
  
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• Four Decades Of NPR's 'Fresh Air' Now In Searchable Online Archive

  07-06-2017 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As many of the old, old tapes as possible, going back to the 1970s, have been baked (that's what you do) and played and their data turned into WAV and MP3 files and parked at a big catalog site named WorldCat.org."
  
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• 'This Is A Terrible Idea For A Musical' - The Playwright Of 'Dear Evan Hansen' Talks About How And Why They Did It Anyway

  07-06-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a Q&A, Tony nominee for Best Book of a Musical Steven Levenson talks with Marissa Martinelli "about the musical's unlikely success, what goes into creating a nuanced portrayal of mental illness, and why he found writing about teenagers especially nerve-wracking."
  
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• Lights designed by Le Corbusier withdrawn from Paris auction at last minute

  07-06-2017 16:28
  
  More than 100 light sconces designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier (Charles-douard Jeanneret-Gris) were withdrawn from a sale at the Paris-based auction house Artcurial last week (30 May), an hour before they were due to go under the hammer. The sconces came from the Unit dhabitation de Firminy (housing unit) in the Loire valley, the second largest site designed by Le Corbusier after the Complexe du Capitole in Chandigarh, India. Last year, the Firminy complex was designated b
  
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• Evan Hansen Is A Lying, Immoral Creep - How Is It That Audiences Love Him So?

  07-06-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jason Zinoman: "It's particularly amazing that this gifted dissembler has received such goodwill at a time when there is such anxiety about fake news and Internet disinformation. ... That Evan Hansen is not just a kind of hero but one whose story will stay with a generation of young theatergoers forever is testament to the power of skillfully crafted art to reframe, manipulate, and even obscure moral concerns."
  
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• The Armory Show Announces 2018 Curators and New Curatorial Leadership Summit

  07-06-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  The Armory Show has selected Gabriel Ritter, curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Jen Mergel, former senior curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, to oversee the fair’s 2018 Focus and Platform sections, respectively. A new curatorial … Read More
  
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• Should Arts Groups Continue Accepting Funding From Big Oil?

  07-06-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As Philip Kennicott argues forcefully that money from the arch-conservative, climate change-denying Koch brothers is by now irredeemably tainted, Lyn Gardner looks at the ongoing arguments over arts sponsorship by BP: "Whenever the cultural sector is benefiting from cash injections, the question must be asked: although it may bring benefits to our theatre and audience, is there a price for this sponsorship that is being paid by someone else, somewhere else?"
  
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• Harper Lee Estate Approves Graphic Novel Version Of 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

  07-06-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Lee estate approached the publisher with the idea of a graphic novel. It is just the latest in a series of projects using Lee's groundbreaking book since her death in February 2016."
  
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• Dakota Leaders Reconsider Whether To Burn 'Scaffold' Sculpture

  07-06-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The four-day public dismantling of Sam Durant's sculpture Scaffold, overseen by Dakota traditional and spiritual leaders, is nearly complete in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, after a week of protests, apologies and mediation ... But in an interview on Monday, the Walker's executive director, Olga Viso, said the Dakota were debating whether the wood fragments would indeed be burned, as previously announced."
  
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• Morning Links: Fiery Gurglings from the Earth Edition

  07-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Jacob Epstein fights the Hun at home

  07-06-2017 14:58
  
  One hundred years ago this week, as millions of fellow Americans received their call-up papers after the US entered the First World War, the New York-born sculptor Jacob Epstein faced a tribunal in London to be exempt from military service. Epstein had moved to Europe in 1902 and become a naturalised Brit in 1911. Already famousand controversialthe tribunal heard that it would be a great national loss if Epstein took up arms and was sent to the Front. If a sculptor lost an eye or hand he would
  
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• Organizers Of Ghost Ship Artist Space Charged With Manslaughter

  07-06-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Alameda County prosecutors capped a six-month investigation into the deadly blaze on Monday when they charged [Derick] Almena and [Max] Harris with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter, saying their management of the Ghost Ship was not simply negligent, but criminal."
  
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• Pick a Lock: On the Hunt at Documenta in Athens

  07-06-2017 14:43 via artnews.com
  A thick black cable is locked around the front doors of Stavropooulou 15, a two-story building on a quiet, leafy block near Amerikis Square, which is a bit north of most of Documenta’s 47 sites in Athens. There is no … Read More
  
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• Governor Vetoes Money For Florida Orchestra's Outreach Program

  07-06-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Florida Orchestra got an unwelcome surprise late Friday when Gov. Rick Scott ruled out $500,000 in funds to help pay for a new outreach program. Beyond the Bay launched in January with a vision of taking the orchestra to schools and community orchestras across Florida. The veto was part of $34 million the governor nixed from the state's budget, leaving that money available for other priorities."
  
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• Sergei Vikharev, Russia's Master Reconstructor Of Petipa's Original Ballets, Dies Suddenly At 55

  07-06-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ismene Brown: "Sergei Vikharev was the passionate pioneer of a brave new movement to install period sensibilities in an art form that had long become the plaything of its performers and coaches rather than its creators."
  
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• Spanish Old Masters Paintings, Forgotten In Upper Manhattan, Are Huge Hits In Madrid

  07-06-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The treasures of the Hispanic Society of America - works by Goya, Velázquez and El Greco, among other masters - are not a popular tourist draw at the group's Beaux-Arts museum in Washington Heights. But through Sept. 10, the haughty portrait of the Duchess of Alba by Goya and 200 other works from the century-old Hispanic Society are finally receiving blockbuster recognition from thousands of visitors to the Prado Museum here - along with royal accolades, an international prize and souven
  
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• We Most Certainly Did Not Damage That Medieval Convent While Filming Don Quixote, Says Terry Gilliam

  07-06-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A report by the Portuguese public broadcaster RTP suggested recent filming for The Man Who Killed Don Quixote left behind chipped masonry, broken roof tiles and uprooted trees at the 12th-century Convent of Christ in Tomar, central Portugal." The director - whose years-long quest to complete the movie has been legendarily troubled - denies all: "People should begin by getting the facts before howling hysterically."
  
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• New York's Big Summer Solstice Music Festival Makes Last-Minute Emergency Plea For Funds

  07-06-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Due to the unexpected cancellation of a grant, "Make Music New York, the non-profit behind an expansive one-day music festival that takes over the city on the first day of summer, has issued a plea for emergency financial aid before its forthcoming edition on June 21."
  
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• What’s wrong with the shape of a pear?

  07-06-2017 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsWhat’s wrong with the shape of a pear?Geoff Rayner, London E10 Continue reading...
  
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• Photos: A Look Around Documenta 14 in Athens

  07-06-2017 12:22 via artnews.com
  A few big names share the stage with many who will not be as well known to most visitors. Read More
  
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• Photo Gallery: A Look Around Documenta 14 in Athens

  07-06-2017 12:22 via artnews.com
  A few big names share the stage with many who will not be as well known to most visitors. Read More
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.06.17

  07-06-2017 11:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Riverside Art Museum
  In conversations with staff members of the Riverside Art Museum, I learned that their initial work in fostering relationships with Riverside’s Latino communities had resulted in donations to purchase art. But the “hot off the press” revelation came ... read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-06-06Lost and Found
  Long ago, I heard a lovely definition of creativity: “Finding what has been lost and making it new.”  I’ve nev
  
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• Christie’s to Sell David Rockefeller Estate for Charity with $700 M. Estimate, Aiming to Break Record for Most Valuable Collection Ever Auctioned

  07-06-2017 08:49 via artnews.com
  After decades housed partially in the complex that bears its name, the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller will be sold to the highest bidder at Rockefeller Center.Christie’s announced today that in spring 2018, the house will auction off 2,000 … Read More
  
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• Malaysians hit back at racism – in pictures

  07-06-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Daniel Adams’s series Why Is Your English So Good? exposes the casual racism encountered by Malaysians, with each image focusing on their experiences while studying or working in the UK or Ireland Continue reading...
  
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