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• Must-see shows in Basel this week

  11-06-2017 23:00
  
  Wolfgang Tillmans
  Beyeler Foundation
  Until 1 October
  The Beyeler Foundations Wolfgang Tillmans survey is the institutions first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the medium of photography. With more than 200 works spanning the three decades of the German artists career, including abstraction, figuration, vast differences in scale and Tillmanss distinctive method of installation, the survey exemplifies many of the key elements of exhibiting contemporary photography. Among the highlights are
  
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• Long-neglected portraits by Cézanne arrive in Paris

  11-06-2017 23:00
  Unlikely as it seems today, Paul Czannes paintings were reviled for much of his lifetime, his portraits perhaps most of all. Soon after he died in 1906, his dealer and later biographer, Ambroise Vollard, bought the contents of the artists studio in Provence. While the still-lifes, landscapes and bathers found buyersincluding an admiring Henri Matissethe portraits lingered in Vollards stock. An exhibition of 24 of them at his Parisian gallery in 1910 was, until now, the only show ever dedicated t
  
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• L.A. Wants More Shows To Return To Shooting In Town

  11-06-2017 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And the move is designed for short video productions: "In a move designed to encourage more local production of short-form online videos created by sites such as Buzzfeed and Funny or Die, the city of Los Angeles is lowering the cost of film permits for these kinds of productions as part of a new pilot program scheduled to roll out later this year."
  
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• Fahrelnissa Zeid: the Modern Turkish artist who walked on her canvases

  11-06-2017 23:00
  
  Fahrelnissa Zeid (1901-91) may well be one of the most fascinating artists youve never heard ofthat is, until recently. An exhibition of the late Turkish artist that is due to open at Tate Modern on 13 June and the recent of sale of her seriously large abstract painting Towards a Sky (1953) for just under 1m (nearly twice its low estimate) is generating a buzz both around Zeids work and her incredible life story, which has all the makings of a feature film.
  Born into an elite Ottoman family, sh
  
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• Beyond the Messeplatz: Art Basel satellite fairs

  11-06-2017 23:00
  
  Design Miami/Basel
  Until 18 JuneHall 1 Sd, Messe Baselwww.designmiami.com
  Design Miami/Basel, which is across the Messeplatz from Art Basels Unlimited, is exhibiting Art Nouveau for the first time on the stand of Robert Zehil Gallery of Monacoone of six newcomers among the 47 galleries from 11 countries showing at the 12th edition of the fair. The centenary of the birth of the Austrian-born, Italian-based architect and designer Ettore Sottsass is celebrated in a display on the New York-based ga
  
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• One Way To Address The Gender Discrepancy Behind The Cameras In Hollywood

  11-06-2017 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When Zoe Lister-Jones decided to direct her first movie, 'Band Aid,' she embraced her power as the director-producer and focused on results instead of promises. She hired an all-female crew, from the cinematographer to the boom operator to the grip."
  
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• Top AJBlog Posts For The Weekend Of 06.11.17

  11-06-2017 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Propwatch: the facepaint pots in An Octoroon
  There are knives and flames and even a tomahawk in An Octoroon. But the most hazardous, incendiary objects are three small pots of make-up. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ delirious date with an antebellum melodrama from 1859 ... read more
  AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2017-06-11
  More About Bengt Hallberg’s “Dinah”
  Rifftides readers following the discussion about this week’s Monday Recommendation, Bengt Hallberg’s Din
  
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• Rival Networks Are Thrilled That Netflix Is Cancelling Shows

  11-06-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Netflix, quite controversially, has cancelled both Sense8 and The Get Down - both of which cost about $10 million per episode - and other streaming services and networks are pleased. "They can’t have 10,000 shows ... I think it brings them back in the ecosystem of where we’re all trying to make the best shows and the best decisions."
  
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• How 'Orphan Black' Brought Power To Canadian TV

  11-06-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That's right, the massive success of the co-produced five-season show is bringing about "a Maple Golden Age."
  
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• Books Are Garbage

  11-06-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A meditation upon the titles we throw away: "I no longer go to church, since here in the Catskills we have the dump. Ours is the purest iteration of the cathedral: on a windswept rise under a ceiling of sky, the enclosing mountains the choir waiting silently to begin. Beneath the metal eaves of a soaring peaked roof, mortal leavings gather."
  
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• The Women And Men Who Run Everything On (And Off) Broadway

  11-06-2017 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stage managers juggle calling thousands of light, sound, action and other cues with everything from pre-show fight rehearsals and cast members' birthdays. One SM: "I don't expect or look for praise or acknowledgement. ... I am here to support the shows I work on and the actors who do them and that's what gives me the joy."
  
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• Can A Tweet Record A Sound?

  11-06-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Audio or it didn't happen? "A loud bell rings. Its waveforms are so thick it’s as if you can see them floating in the misty San Francisco air. The bell is all stately gravitas. Even if you didn’t know that the nearby school is parochial, you’d sense the bell’s churchly vibe. And then, suddenly, there is silence: Recess has concluded. The bell has marked a juncture."
  
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• Pity The Poor Tonys Voter Who Must See Everything

  11-06-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's like the Oscars, with producers campaigning for support, and with a short timeline: "The 40 days between the nominations and the awards are intense. Tony voters — 839 people who are connected to Broadway financially, as producers and investors, and artistically, as performers, directors and designers — scramble to see all the shows before the June 9 voting deadline."
  
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• Münster Notebook: An Annotated Tour of Skulptur Projekte 2017

  11-06-2017 19:01 via artnews.com
  Ten years in the making, Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017 is opened yesterday, with sculptures by more than 30 artists dotting the German city. After a somewhat dark Documenta 14 in Kassel, the Münster show, which was organized by Kasper König, … Read More
  
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• The Decade Of Rachel Weisz

  11-06-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  She almost wasn't a movie star at all because as a student, she preferred the stage. "After Cambridge, she was confident her life in avant-garde theatre was set to continue, until the acting partner with whom she had set up a theatrical company decided to go to Rada and the thing fell apart."
  
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• ‘Don’t Be Afraid of Me, I’m a Digital Painting’: Ei Arakawa’s Pictures Sing in Münster

  11-06-2017 18:59 via artnews.com
  Many art types—dealers, curators, journalists–are today making their way from the Skulptur Projekte Münster to Art Basel, the annual fair for modern and contemporary art in Switzerland. The open-air art experience that is the former is pretty much the polar opposite of … Read More
  
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• Sculpture Projects Münster 2017: the essential things to see

  11-06-2017 18:43
  
  If you are expecting to see site-specific works at Sculpture Projects Mnster (Skulptur Projekte Mnster), which opened this weekend, you will not be disappointed. Nicole Eisenmans jolly fountain on the Promenade (a public path on the site of the former city walls) and Nairy Baghramians bronze sculpture in front of the Baroque Erbdrostenhof, a popular site chosen by artists in the past, are both large-scale works that deal directly with their surroundings. But the curators of this years edit
  
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• Taking Seriously The Art And Culture Of Berlin's Roma Population

  11-06-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Roma in Europe number about 12 million, the largest ethnic minority in Europe - and after generations of working on it, they're getting their own institute for arts and culture.
  
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• This Is The Poet Who Won One Of The World's Richest Poetry Prizes

  11-06-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alice Oswald, a British poet who won the International Griffin poetry prize for her collection Falling Awake, said, "Most of my favourite poets (both dead and alive) have never won prizes. However, in the spirit of carnival, it’s important for all people to wear a crown and ride on a float for a day – as long as they don’t turn up for work in it."
  
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• Will 19th Century European Art Ever Regain Its Popularity?

  11-06-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Maybe not. Sorry, Jean-Léon Gérôme. "'The issue is that this period is just not sexy any more,' said Wendy Goldsmith, an art adviser based in London, who was formerly the international head of 19th-century European art at Christie’s. 'So many collectors have moved through Impressionism and now over to contemporary.'"
  
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• Theatre In Quebec Is Bilingual, But What About All Of The Other Cultures In The Province?

  11-06-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's quite an intense, complex topic: "Whenever the topic of diversity (or rather the absence of diversity on stage) comes up here, as it often does, the discussion doesn’t immediately go to representation, or how we view one another in Quebec and Canada. Instead the conversation is taken over by people who often see this complex issue as part of a greater, nobler debate on independence, while others use the issue to sway votes their way."
  
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• The Dungeonmaster In The Running At The Tonys

  11-06-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the playwright J.T. Rogers (of Oslo fame) hangs out with his son, this is exclusive narrative he spins: "His characters, a dwarven king, a 12-foot-tall mountain giant and a half-elven chef, were not interested in brokering peace; they and their army were a bloodthirsty lot, with dwindling food stores, hellbent on conquering a nearby population of gnomes."
  
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• Who Are The Heroes, And Villains, Of New York's Housing Crisis?

  11-06-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The question comes back to who the city is for. ... Today, the measure of 'success' in urban development should be the rate at which democracy rather than money predominates in determining what a city is and what it should become. Activist groups around New York meet on a regular basis to insist on this. But mainstream newspaper accounts cynically reduce real estate coverage to tales about treasure hunts by a lucky few."
  
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• Yes, Occupy Wall Street Has A Literary Legacy

  11-06-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sure, some nonfiction addresses the impact of Occupy (remember "the 99%"?), but there is also fiction, poetry, and more that describes, pictures, and sums up the legacy (at least so far) of the very large social movement.
  
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• Nero Rock Opera Is Not So Welcome In Rome

  11-06-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So state officials allowed a 3,000-person theatre to be constructed smack dab in the middle of one of Rome's main archaeological sites so the opera could run this summer. "This may not be the first grave abuse perpetuated against Rome’s monuments, but it is certainly the most serious."
  
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• Is L.A. Really Going To Get - Finally - An Oscars Museum?

  11-06-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Maybe. It might take some superhero-sized money to pull it off, though: "Originally slated to open this year, the Renzo Piano-designed project has run into repeated snags and is now expected to open in 2019. And the academy is borrowing heavily to pay for the museum project — according to its most recent annual report, the organization’s debt leaped to $354.4 million from $61.6 million the previous year."
  
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• Will 'Dear Evan Hansen' Clean Up At Tonys?

  11-06-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peter Marks of Washington, DC: "It comes down to the two shows with Washington pedigrees, both of which I feel great affection for. They’re both exciting, superbly staged and havepowerful emotional cores. 'Come From Away' is a heartbreaking production about an extraordinary incident; 'Dear Evan Hansen' is an extraordinary production about a heartbreaking incident. In the end, the more award-worthy achievement is the show that wrecked me more."
  
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• Adam West, The Funny 'Batman' Of 1960s TV, Has Died At 88

  11-06-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  West was both frustrated by the limitations of having played Batman and embracing of the humor of the show - though he didn't like newer, dark versions of the Caped Crusader. "With its 'Wham! Pow!' onscreen exclamations, flamboyant villains and cheeky tone, 'Batman' became a surprise hit with its premiere on ABC in 1966, a virtual symbol of ’60s kitsch. The half-hour action comedy was such a hit that it aired twice a week on ABC at its peak."
  
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• Delta Airlines And Bank Of America Pull Out Of Funding The Public's Julius Caesar Because Caesar's Look Resembles That Of A Certain President

  11-06-2017 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The companies knuckled under "after days of criticism online and in right-leaning media outlets that was amplified by Donald Trump Jr., a son of the president, who appeared to call into question the theater’s funding sources on Twitter on Sunday morning."
  
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• Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! review – land of the brave and the twee

  11-06-2017 08:59
  
  Serpentine Gallery, London
  The affable potter craftily manages to unite a divided Britain while keeping everything up in the air“I’m off to buy a very serious piece of political art,” boasts the bubble on one of Grayson Perry’s new pots. Who’s speaking? Some idiot collector of course: the kind of plutocrat who needs an adviser to help him choose, who becomes a gallery trustee for the cachet, who buys art as a talking point for parties. The kind of fatcat who buys ju
  
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• From the Observer archive: this week in 1953

  11-06-2017 01:05
  
  Modern language down to a TIn a month Glasgow Fair will be sending Clydesiders on holiday “doon the wa’er”. It seems that Margate-bound Londoners will also be on the wa’er, though “dahn” it rather than doon it. It is one of the phonetic discoveries of the L.C.C. that many Londoners are becoming incapable of saying “t”. So the Glasgow man who said, “My name’s Pa-erson – two t’s – will be rivalled by the Cockney explaini
  
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