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• Inside An Immersive Theatre Experience Below The Streets Of Manhattan

  19-07-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We're are not in Hoboken but in a space beneath the 14th Street entrance and exit of New York City’s High Line, and this is the immersive theatrical experience of Seeing You.
  
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• Patricia Cronin at the LAB Gallery, Dublin

  19-07-2017 23:27 via artnews.com
  
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• The whitewashing of ancient Greek and Roman art

  19-07-2017 23:00
  The classicist Sarah Bond from the University of Iowa caused a stir last spring when she published an article on the whitewashing of ancient Greek and Roman art. White marble statues have been naturally stripped of their polychromy over timeor were purposefully discoloured in the 18th and 19th centuries due to a romanticised notion of the purity of white, she says, which suggests that the ancient Greeks and Romans were a homogenous white people. She argues that a placard of the original polychro
  
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• New commissions by seven artists for DiCaprio Foundation sale

  19-07-2017 23:00
  For the past four years, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation auctionorganised by the actor and art collectorhas played a starring role on the St. Tropez summer calendar. Last year, the event raised some $45m on behalf of the long-term health and wellbeing of all of Earths inhabitants, per the foundations mission.
  This years gala and live auction, conducted by Simon de Pury, will take place on 26 Julyat an undisclosed location, for security reasonsfollowing an online preview and absentee biddi
  
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• New commissions by nine artists for DiCaprio Foundation sale

  19-07-2017 23:00
  For the past four years, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation auctionorganised by the actor and art collectorhas played a starring role on the St. Tropez summer calendar. Last year, the event raised some $45m on behalf of the long-term health and wellbeing of all of Earths inhabitants, per the foundations mission.
  This years gala and live auction, conducted by Simon de Pury, will take place on 26 Julyat an undisclosed location, for security reasonsfollowing an online preview and absentee biddi
  
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• Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to offer new works by Bowers, Johnson, Ghenie and more

  19-07-2017 23:00
  For the past four years, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation auctionorganised by the actor and art collectorhas played a starring role on the St. Tropez summer calendar. Last year, the event raised some $45m on behalf of the long-term health and wellbeing of all of Earths inhabitants, per the foundations mission.
  This years gala and live auction, conducted by Simon de Pury, will take place on 26 Julyat an undisclosed location, for security reasonsfollowing an online preview and absentee biddi
  
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• Khadija’s Garden named at PEER

  19-07-2017 23:00
  
  In a sombre but heartwarming ceremony last night (19 July), PEER art spacein association with North and South Arden Estate tenantsnamed the community garden, trees and seating outside the gallery on Hoxton Street as Khadijas Garden, in memory of Khadija Saye, who died, along with her mother Mary Mendy, in the Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June. Khadija Saye worked at PEER as a Creative Access Intern from July 2015 to April 2016 and played a significant role in fundraising for and then planting the
  
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• Collective Design Fair shifts from May to March for 2018 edition

  19-07-2017 23:00
  
  The Collective Design fair, which presents 20th- and 21st-century design and decorative arts, announced that its 2018 edition will be moved from May to March, to coincide with the Armory Show.
  By joining Armory Arts Week in March, we can expand our platform in a larger venue, engage a broader audience of art collectors, and distinguish Collective as the sole design-focused event of the week, Steven Learner, the fairs founder, said in a statement. The sixth edition of the fair, 9-11 March (VIP p
  
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• A New York chapel goes Wilde

  19-07-2017 23:00
  
  The importance of Oscar Wilde in the fight against homophobia will be celebrated this September at the Russell chapel in New Yorks Church of the Village in a new installation by the Brooklyn-based artist duo David McDermott and Peter McGough, The Temple of Oscar Wilde (11 September-2 December). The show takes visitors back to Wildes era, transforming the chapel into the style of the 19th-century Aesthetic movement that struck Wilde during his 1882-83 visits to the US as the perfect embodime
  
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• Netflix Ramps Up Movie Production, Challenging Hollywood's Primary Business

  19-07-2017 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Netflix's bold foray into movie-making and directly-to-couch distribution is an explicit challenge to the traditional Hollywood model, analysts say, although it remains unclear if a company propelled by binge-watching TV at home can alter the future of going to the movies."
  
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• Dutch Composer Michel van der Aa On Making Art Relevant

  19-07-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When you work with film, there’s a risk of things becoming very concrete. I think a strength of art is that you can steer people in a certain direction, but they have to take the last few steps themselves—everyone can find their own truth in the piece. I like to push people in a certain direction, but leave a few things for them to interpret themselves."
  
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• Does Tate Modern Provide A Model For A New London?

  19-07-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The museum may be the among the best-known examples of the now fashionable transformation of derelict factories into dynamic cultural space. Since its inception, the Tate Modern has never rested on its laurels, continuing to redefine itself as an institution of outreach, self-reflection and learning. The museum’s evolution over time provides a potential blueprint for how London, and indeed any city, can provide spaces that encourage its inhabitants to be collectively present. You cannot e
  
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• Dolly Parton Is Sending Free Books To Hundreds Of Thousands Of Pre-School Children Every Month

  19-07-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The goal of the Dollywood Foundation's Imagination Library project is to send one free book a month to every child under 5 who wants one. "Five percent of the U.S. population younger than 5 years old receives a book through the program. The goal is to reach 10 percent by 2024."
  
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• Small Foundation Offers Major Award To Arts Journalists

  19-07-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation made a splash in the world of art criticism and journalism this week, announcing a new annual prize that offers American art writers who write for general audiences (rather than academic readers) a $50,000 unrestricted grant in recognition of their work. The grant matches the highest awards given by the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation, which range from $15,000 to $50,000, and is five times the sum awarded to Pulitzer Prize win
  
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• How Indigenous Australian Artists Are Shaking Off Stereotypes Of Their Work

  19-07-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Things have started to shift on the dot-painting stereotype in the decade or so. There has been “a push to have urban, Indigenous artists accepted. As a result, the art market’s understanding of Indigenous art has expanded to include urban artists who work in many different mediums.”
  
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• Finally - For The First Time In Decades, Rock n Roll Is NOT Americans' Favorite Music

  19-07-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In Nielsen’s latest mid-year music report, hip-hop/R&B had the largest share of overall consumption, capturing 25.1 percent of the total volume in album sales and online streaming. It’s a watershed moment for the black-dominated genre. Former longtime volume leader rock — a genre created by African Americans then co-opted by white artists — dropped to second with 23 percent of the total volume."
  
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• Jane Austen Is The First Woman Writer To Be Featured On The British Pound

  19-07-2017 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the unveiling Tuesday of the new "tenner" at Winchester Cathedral in southern England, Bank of England governor Mark Carney said the new note celebrates the "universal appeal" of Austen's work.
  
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• What the Research Really Suggests About That Facebook Chatbot Therapist

  19-07-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Woebot (that's what it's called) "seems intriguing. The idea is to help you understand and monitor your moods using a combination of natural language processing and therapeutic expertise. Sounds good, right? Using A.I. via social media to significantly reduce psychological problems like anxiety and depression would be quite a breakthrough. But there are some major hurdles to overcome."
  
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• Tang Museum Receives $160,000 in Grants from Terra Foundation, Warhol Foundation

  19-07-2017 18:43 via artnews.com
  
  Both grants will go toward the Tang's upcoming exhibition "The Imagist Object: New Dimensions in Chicago Art, 1964-1980." Read More
  
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• Netflix Now Has 100 Million Subscribers

  19-07-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Netflix shares rose more than 10% in after-hours trading in New York after announcing its second-quarter results. The firm said it added about 5.2 million members during the quarter, mostly from overseas. International members now account for about half of its subscriber total."
  
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• Motion to dismiss denied in copyright suit against Richard Prince and Gagosian

  19-07-2017 18:30
  
  A Manhattan federal court judge yesterday rejected the request of Richard Prince, the Gagosian Gallery, and Larry Gagosian to dismiss the copyright infringement lawsuit of photographer Donald Graham. Graham alleges that Prince unlawfully used his photograph Rastafarian Smoking a Joint (1996) when he enlarged an Instagram post of it for his New Portraits show at Gagosian in 2014.
  Four other lawsuits have been filed by other photographers alleging the defendants infringed their work in the same e
  
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• The 100 Greatest Props In Movie History, And The Stories Behind Them

  19-07-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "While iconic movie props make us laugh, gasp, scream, and/or sit in absolute silence, they rarely start iconic; as a property master will tell you, the best on-screen objects go unnoticed, silently winning you over with truth. Well, call us obsessives, but we couldn't help but notice. At a time in history when details go painfully overlooked, we slid movie history under a microscope to honor the simple joy of a perfect prop."
  
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• Portrait of the mystery man behind Castello di Rivoli’s £450m art loan

  19-07-2017 17:52
  
  Federico Cerruti is the man behind the 450m collection of art that has been vested in the Castello di Rivoli on long-term loan. Suddenly, this contemporary art museum in a former royal palace on the outskirts of Turin has great Medieval, Old Master and Modern paintings, among hundreds of other treasures, at its disposal and will be able to incorporate them temporarily in its displays (normally, it will reside in Cerrutis 1960s villa, which is in walking distance of the castle).
   
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• First-Ever New York City Cultural Plan Calls for Funding Institutions in Underserved Communities, Accessibility, Environmental Improvements

  19-07-2017 17:50 via artnews.com
  
  “We are clear: there are no cultural deserts,” Tom Finkelpearl, the commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs, said in an interview. Read More
  
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• $25 Admission To A Museum Special Exhibition? How Much Is Too Much?

  19-07-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That's what LA's Broad Museum will charge. "One has to note that these are the same museums that regularly raise outside sums of money to pay for big building projects, even as they make no real effort to address ticket prices. While commending the Broads for displaying their collection for free (setting aside that it is largely blue chip and predictable), we can still say that it looks peculiar for them to spend $140 million on a building and th
  
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• Sherman Alexie Ends Book Tour For His Memoir Due To Depression (And His Mother's Ghost)

  19-07-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I don't believe in the afterlife as a reality, but I believe in the afterlife as metaphor, and my mother, from the afterlife, is metaphorically kicking my ass. ... I have been sobbing many times a day during this book tour. I have sobbed in private and I have sobbed onstage." (One commenter called it "the most poetic cancelling of a book tour in history.")
  
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• McDermott & McGough to Open Temple Dedicated to Oscar Wilde in New York’s Church of the Village

  19-07-2017 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  This September, the Irish writer gets a memorial in the West Village. Read More
  
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• Lyles & King Now Represents Erica Mahinay

  19-07-2017 16:44 via artnews.com
  
  The artist will have a pop-up show with Rome's T293 gallery in Los Angeles in January 2018. Read More
  
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• Scandalous 'Exposés' About Nuns Were Antebellum America's Most Popular Books

  19-07-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The 'convent exposé' [was] a book, fictional or not, that purported to reveal the sin and salaciousness hidden behind the walls of religious institutions. In these books, sisters are kept captive, denied medical care, and sometimes raped or otherwise subject to sexual depravities. ... These books, mostly forgotten today, were some of the most popular publications of their time." (One was outsold onely by Uncle Tom's Cabin.)
  
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• Abusive Speech Really Can Damage Students (So It's Good To Keep Milo Yiannopoulos Off Campuses)

  19-07-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett does make a distinction between speech that's abusive and bullying (Milo) and speech that's merely offensive (Charles Murray): "The former is a danger to a civil society (and to our health); the latter is the lifeblood of democracy. By all means, we should have open conversations and vigorous debate about controversial or offensive topics. But we must also halt speech that bullies and torments. From the perspective of our brain cells, the latter is liter
  
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• If We Keep Telling Students That Wholly Free Speech Will Traumatize Them, They'll Probably Feel Traumatized (So Stop It)

  19-07-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jesse Singal: "There's an intriguing area of behavioral science known as mind-set research, and one of its tenets is that the relationship between stress and humans' response to it is partially mediated by how people expect stress to affect them. ... If you tell students over and over and over that certain variants of free speech - variants which are ugly, but which are aired every moment of every day on talk radio - are traumatizing them, it really could do harm. And there's no reason to go dow
  
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• Centre Pompidou will pop up in Shanghai’s West Bund cultural corridor

  19-07-2017 15:38
  
  Officials at the Centre Pompidou have confirmed that the Paris museum is expanding its empire with plans to open an offshoot branch in Shanghai. More than 20 exhibitions drawn from the holdings of the Beaubourg Gallery will be shown in the new outpost, called Le Centre Pompidou Shanghai (West Bund), which is based in a wing of the new 25,000 sq. m West Bund Art Museum designed by the UK architect David Chipperfield. The museum is due to open late 2018 while the new Pompidou satellite will launc
  
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• Save This Unique Floating Concert Hall Before It Gets Sold For Scrap Metal!

  19-07-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Point Counterpoint II was designed by the great architect Louis Kahn - with a unique structure that opens like a clamshell to provide a stage and acoustical canopy - for the American Wind Symphony Orchestra to use for concert tours along the nation's waterways. After many years of attempts to sell the vessel, the owners are planning to send it to a scrap- and shipyard in Louisiana at the end of this month. Following an emotional plea from Yo-Yo Ma in The New York Review of Books, there is intere
  
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• A New National Center For Choreography - In The Heart Of Ohio

  19-07-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Enter the new National Center for Choreography at The University of Akron. Its mission: to support the research and development of new dance by providing choreographers, dance companies, arts administrators and dance writers access to [its] world-class facilities ... seven dance studios, two black-box theaters and main-stage theaters of two different sizes."
  
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• Hundreds Were Abused In Boys' Choir Directed By Pope Benedict's Brother: Report

  19-07-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At least 547 young members of the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir in Germany were subjected to physical and in some instances sexual abuse over a period of 60 years, a new report says. ... Among those singled out for criticism in the report was Georg Ratzinger, elder brother of retired Pope Benedict XVI ... [who] was head of the choir from 1964 to 1994 and denies any knowledge of what went on. It was 'never discussed' while he ran the choir, he has said."
  
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• Morning Links: Monochrome Edition

  19-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  
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• Jacob Aue Sobol's best photograph: twins cling on in the coldest city on Earth

  19-07-2017 14:48
  
  ‘The temperature can drop to -60C in parts of Siberia, and the ghosts of Stalin’s labour camps are everywhere. For me, these twins represent resilience’ I met these brothers in Yakutsk, in north-eastern Siberia. They remind me of all the things I’ve shared with my own identical twin brother: the kind of symbiotic relationship all twins have. They love each other. They’re holding each other – and holding on to each other. They have almost become one.I was there
  
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• The Gates Of Paradise Are Now In Kansas City

  19-07-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The only copy outside Florence of Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, cast in bronze from the 15th-century originals, has arrived at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Victoria Stapley-Brown tells the story of the work, how and why it came to be copied, and how the copy arrived in Kansas City via Japan, India, South Korea, and New York.
  
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• Controversy and cutting-edge art in Hong Kong’s artist village

  19-07-2017 13:30
  
  In Kowloon’s former Cattle Depot, artists defy the Beijing crackdown with alternative artworks of all kinds: there’s something provocative to look at, for free, every dayWith Hong Kong in the news for pro-democracy marches as the former British colony marks the 20th anniversary of its handover to China, travellers may be surprised to find an alternative arts centre where controversial subjects are openly addressed by local and overseas artists. The Cattle Depot Artist Village, in Kow
  
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• Christie’s reports soaring sales of £10m-plus art

  19-07-2017 13:04
  
  Auction house is boosted by Asian demand as well as lots including £44m Brancusi and £36m Beckmann in first half of yearDemand among wealthy art lovers for high-value lots, including work by Constantin Brancusi and Max Beckmann, and record spending from Asian buyers boosted Christie’s auction house in the first half of the year.The number of artworks sold for more than £10m rose to 38 in the first six months of 2017, from 14 in the same period last year. Related: Paris's
  
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• Christie’s reports soaring sales of £10m-plus art as Asian demand grows

  19-07-2017 11:27
  
  Auction house is boosted by lots including £44m Brancusi and £36m Beckmann in the first half of the yearDemand among wealthy art lovers for high-value lots, including work by Constantin Brancusi and Max Beckmann, and record spending from Asian buyers boosted Christie’s auction house in the first half of the year.The number of artworks sold for more than £10m rose to 38 in the first six months of 2017, from 14 in the same period last year. Related: Paris's Pompidou Centre
  
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• Major Modern Russian collection heads to Fondation Louis Vuitton

  19-07-2017 10:12
  
  The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris continues its run of high-profile Modern art shows organised in collaboration with major museums worldwide, announcing that it will show late 2020 the prestigious collection amassed by the early 20th-century philanthropist brothers Mikhail and Ivan Morozov. Works by Czanne, Van Gogh, Derain, Bonnard and Picassodrawn from the collections of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and State Tretyakov Gallery in
  
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• Paleoart: the strange history of dinosaurs in art – in pictures

  19-07-2017 08:00
  
  Since the early 19th century, artists have depicted colourful – if sometimes fictional – dinosaurs and prehistoric environments, mingling science with unbridled fantasy. This art is the subject of a new book: Paleoart Continue reading...
  
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• Paris's Pompidou Centre to open gallery in Shanghai

  19-07-2017 03:07
  
  The modern art gallery, which also plans to open branches in South Korea and Belgium, has been in talks for more than a decade with ChinaThe Pompidou Centre in Paris, which houses the world’s second biggest collection of modern art, is close to signing a deal for a franchise gallery in Shanghai.
  It will show around 20 exhibitions over five years in a wing of the new West Bund Art Museum, which is being built in the cultural district of China’s commercial capital by British architect
  
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