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• The Slow And Semi-Secret Death Of The Electric Guitar

  25-06-2017 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The industry (and music in general) needs more guitar heroes if it's going to survive - or else technology, and the electronic music it produces, will take over.
  
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• Mark Leckey offers a cathartic shout-out at Cubitt gallery

  25-06-2017 23:00
  
  A cathartic chance to let off steam and cast out some demons was offered by Mark Leckey last week (22 June). At the packed and sweltering private view of his new Cubitt show, Leckey rousingly rounded off a week of heatwave and mounting political disquiet by leading a mass rendition of the chanted sound piece that forms a key element of his new installation, Affect Bridge Age Regression (30 July).Bathed in the Lucozade-yellow of sodium streetlights, the packed PV crowd enthusiastically belted ou
  
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• Getty reimposes the rule of time

  25-06-2017 23:00
  
  When the Getty Villa reopened in 2006 after a nine-year, $275m renovation and expansion led by the disgraced antiquities expert Marion True, curators made the bold decision to abandon the formerly chronological installation in favour of a thematic approach. Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities were presented in galleries devoted, for example, to gods and goddesses, and stories from the Trojan War.That is all due to change next spring, when an ongoing overhaul of the Villa is complete. The proj
  
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• Caro sculpture is shipshape again

  25-06-2017 23:00
  
  The largest site-specific public work by the late British artist Anthony Caro in the UKat a place where the sculptor and his wife, the artist Shelia Girling, used to sit and eat fish and chipslooks good as new after its restoration. Sea Music (1991) on Poole Quay in Dorset, England, needed conservation after 25 years of exposure to the salty sea air and detritus from barges being loaded.Commissioned by the Poole Arts Council, Sea Musicones of Caros sculpitecture pieceswas inspired by a 19th-cen
  
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• Bulk of V&A’s £50m extension sponsored by four donors

  25-06-2017 23:00
  
  The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) will gain a dramatic new entrance and one of Europes largest temporary exhibition galleries when its Exhibition Road extension opens to the public on 30 June. Designed by the London-based architect Amanda Levete, it is the biggest development of the museums Grade I-listed building in more than a century. The Art Newspaper can reveal that just four donors supported three-quarters of the projects 49.5m cost.The new entrance slices through the base of the A
  
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• Buffalo's Albright-Knox Museum To Reconfigure, Expand, And 'Become One With The Park'

  25-06-2017 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are several phases of construction planned, but "perhaps the most striking feature of the planned expansion is the creation of a vast, light-filled entry hall where the current courtyard and Bunshaft galleries exist. Renderings show the space as a glass-walled public plaza with an elevated walkway providing access to the existing auditorium on the south side and a new restaurant that will spill onto the east lawn of the gallery in the summer months."
  
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• Top AJBlog Posts For The Weekend Of 06.25.17

  25-06-2017 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Four Companies, Six Dances
  Karole Armitage, Jaqulyn Buglisi, Elisa Monte, and Jennifer Muller join forces. Elisa Monte’s Day’s Residue. Left rear: Clymene Baugher. Jumping (foreground): Scott Willits. Plus Thomas Varvaro, Wade Watson, and Alrick Thomas. Photo: Darial Sneed As ... read more
  AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2017-06-24
  Lloyd Cole and All the Poets
  YOUR humble blogger has been a fan of Lloyd Cole since songs like Lost Weekend and Why I Love Country Music showed up on “al
  
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• Conjuring The Ghost Of Leonard Bernstein At The Dakota

  25-06-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, this is a real thing that happens. Larry and Toby Milstein are the 20-something children of the (very wealthy) people who live in the apartment where Bernstein used to live. "Inspired by the many artists who have called the Dakota home, and spurred by their own substantial arts philanthropy, these millennial billion-heirs have taken to hosting séances that are attended by their fashionable set of well-connected peers."
  
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• The Walker Mounts A Show Of Jimmie Durham's Art To A Lot More Criticism From Native American Communities

  25-06-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cherokee artist America Meredith says the problem is that Durham has no documented links to actually being Cherokee, and yet, "Art historians have really latched onto him. And he represents us. He's occupying a space. He's written more about than any actual Cherokee artist in the literature."
  
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• Philippe Auguin Is Leaving The Washington National Opera, But What Does It Mean When A Music Director Leaves?

  25-06-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anne Midgette: "It’s important not to cling too tightly to tradition, but it remains unclear exactly what vision WNO, under Zambello, is offering to replace it."
  
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• All that glitters: golden artworks grace Sir Francis Drake's Devon home

  25-06-2017 18:51
  
  Andrew Logan installs towering golden wheat stalks at Buckland Abbey, along with a portrait of the buccaneering explorer in the Art of ReflectionThe buccaneering Sir Francis Drake, who liked a bit of gold and glitter, would undoubtedly be pleased to know that the great barn at his old home, Buckland Abbey in Devon, is once again full of wheat – this time towering golden stalks stretching up towards the medieval roof timbers, installed by the artist Andrew Logan. Related: The Alternative Mi
  
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• On my radar: Iwona Blazwick’s cultural highlights

  25-06-2017 11:00
  
  The Whitechapel Gallery director on her Fargo addiction, the best music venue in the California desert and JW Anderson’s fusion of sculpture and coutureBorn and raised in south-east London, Iwona Blazwick has been the director of Whitechapel Gallery since 2001 and led its expansion in 2009. She gave Damien Hirst his first solo show at a public art gallery and has helped the careers of many other contemporary artists. She has been a judge on a number of award panels, including the Turner pr
  
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• Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919-33 review – August Sander and Otto Dix, masters of life and death

  25-06-2017 09:00
  
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  Sander sees the humanity in everyone, Dix nothing but horror, in this superb show exploring Germany between the warsA shifty industrialist sits behind a shining phone in Weimar Cologne. Three young farmers, on their way to a dance, stop for a second in sharp new suits. A gentleman beggar holds out his hat, as if in greeting, while travelling musicians roam the villages, bears dance in city squares, military cadets fight duels and the Turkish pedlar flogs his mousetraps. Anyone &nd
  
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• This week, we love to buy… | Alice Fisher and Eva Wiseman

  25-06-2017 07:00
  
  From Georgia May Jagger style to Howard Hodgkin rugs and dinky wireless headphones, these are some of the things we love this weekGeorgia May Jagger is pretty stoked to have created a range for cool sports brand Volcom, inspired by skate culture and 70 styling. Available now. Volcom x GMJ range from £35, zalando.co.uk Continue reading...
  
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