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• Anglo(art)phile Hilton Als to organise series of contemporary shows at the Yale Center for British Art

  03-08-2017 23:00
  I became interested in British art when I got tired of American art, the American writer and art critic Hilton Als said at a press event for the Yale Centre for British Art (YCBA) in New Haven, Connecticut on 2 Augustdating this shift to 1999. Als will have the opportunity to share his interest in contemporary British art with an American audience through a three successive solo exhibitions he is organising at the Yale Centre for British Art over the next few years.The first exhibition, due
  
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• Ai Weiwei’s refugee film Human Flow picked up by Amazon

  03-08-2017 23:00
  Human Flow, Ai Weiweis first feature film about the global refugee crisis which premieres at the Venice International Film Festival at the end of this month, is due to be released in American theatres this autumn. The US distribution rights to the film have been acquired by Amazon Studios, the media production arm of the online retailer giant owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, so fans of the Chinese artist-activist could soon expect to stream the documentary at home. 
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• Andy Warhol at Museo Jumex, Mexico City

  03-08-2017 22:13 via artnews.com
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• Tyshawn Sorey: In The Cracks Of Improvisation And Between Genres

  03-08-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What isn’t immediately clear is where Mr. Sorey’s written music ends, and where improvisations begin. “The idea of what is composed and what is improvised is pointless,” Mr. Sorey said.
  
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• What Defines Hip In Classical Music

  03-08-2017 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Classical hipsters don’t try to be hip.  They just are. Attempted hipsterism is often geared towards reaching the younger audience member. There have been some notable successes, but not in the numbers we hoped to achieve. Audiences young and “old” recognize a strong, committed performance of the music we create on stage. Let’s always start there."
  
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• Starry Night, Maze, Flying Toasters - Remembers Screen Savers?

  03-08-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Even when we chose them, personalized them, they were just there - artworks that we rarely thought of as art, partly because we never knew the names of the artists who had made them. The best examples of the genre underscored this sentiment by pushing back against the fact of conscious human design." Jacob Brogan offers a history of screen savers and an explanation (for you young'uns) of why they were necessary and why we now so rarely see them.
  
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• A Becoming Resemblance: artist creates portraits using Chelsea Manning's DNA

  03-08-2017 20:37
  In a new exhibition, Heather Dewey-Hagborg used hair clippings and cheek swabs from Manning, collected during a two-year correspondenceIn the center of the room at New York’s Fridman Gallery are multiple faces – white, black and brown, each bearing an almost imperceptible resemblance to one another – suspended on wires from the ceiling.The 30 portraits were created by the artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg from cheek swabs and hair clippings sent to her by Chelsea Manning. Manning se
  
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• This Year's Kennedy Center Honors Includes Rapper For First Time

  03-08-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 2017 roster of honorees continues to favor popular culture at the expense of theater and classic music. This year’s celebration will spotlight three pop musicians who have collectively sold hundreds of millions of recordings. Absent are big-name Hollywood actors and Broadway stars.
  
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• Have The Kennedy Center Arts Abandoned The Traditional Arts?

  03-08-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Representatives of the wide range of traditional arts, including classical music, opera and ballet, have been slowly edged out until, it seemed, they were lucky to be represented with a single award among the five given out each year. This year even that toehold looks precarious. Of the five artists to receive the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors, only dancer and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade falls into the tradition of the arts on which the Kennedy Center was founded and built its reputation."
  
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• The End Of Families Gathering Round The TV

  03-08-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's another thing to blame on the Internet: "New research from Ofcom [Britain's equivalent of the FCC] has found that 45% of people now watch a programme or film alone every day while nine in 10 watch alone every week. The media watchdog says that a third of Britons say members of their household sit together in the same room watching different programmes on different devices."
  
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• For Decades, Angelyne Was A Mysterious LA Billboard Phenomenon. Now We Know Who She Is

  03-08-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Angelyne had single-handedly created and then inhabited a modern myth of L.A.: the platinum blond bombshell in the bright pink Corvette forever circumnavigating the city, seeking to enchant by dint of her sheer superficial glamour. It had the aesthetic power and emotional resonance of genuine performance art, Marina Abramovic by way of John Waters, particularly as she kept on rambling around the city over the decades while she aged.
  
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• Michelle Elligott Named Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections at Museum of Modern Art

  03-08-2017 19:06 via artnews.com
  She is currently working on a biography of former MoMA director René d'Harnoncourt. Read More
  
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• Mastery Beats Creativity, Every Time - Here's Why

  03-08-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Scientific evidence does link the creative process to certain patterns of brain activity - and it is possible to 'train' some of these these patterns the way you would build a muscle. So yes, you can learn to be more creative in certain ways. But that's just one side of the neurological coin."
  
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• Why Arts High Schools Are Phenomenally Successful With Students

  03-08-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Performing and visual arts high schools like New World inspire a fierce devotion among students and graduates. It is no wonder. Many serve as springboards to the professional world. Just as important, graduation and college attendance rates are typically high (100 and 96 percent for New World), particularly impressive considering the schools’ urban setting. The best of these schools offer a conservatory-style training ground that helps budding artists win admission to an undergraduate art
  
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• Paula Vogel's 'Indecent' And The Challenges Of Liberalism

  03-08-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In Indecent, Vogel has made a piece of art that's about nothing more or less than Art's survival in a world a lot like our own: a historical test case of the possibility of representing the reality of human multiplicity in a culture filled with competing singularities. What's more, she's done this by following the experiences of the group for whom the stakes surrounding that possibility have historically been highest, secular Jews."
  
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• Sotheby’s Posts $76.9 M. Net Income for Second Quarter of 2017, Down 14 Percent Versus Same Period Last Year

  03-08-2017 17:41 via artnews.com
  In a quarter during which Sotheby’s stock rose to an all-time high since going public in 1988—and during which the auction house shocked the market by selling a work by Jean-Michel Basquiat for $110.5 million—the house posted earnings that were … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Posts $76.9 M. Net Income for Second Quarter of 2017, Down 14 Percent From Same Period Last Year

  03-08-2017 17:41 via artnews.com
  In a quarter during which Sotheby’s stock rose to an all-time high since going public in 1988—and during which the auction house shocked the market by selling a work by Jean-Michel Basquiat for $110.5 million—the house posted earnings that were … Read More
  
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• Philippe de Montebello On What's Ailing The Met Museum

  03-08-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The messages that are sent out have a completely unbalanced emphasis on contemporary art, as if somehow the crowds that come to the Metropolitan Museum on Fifth Avenue—where people go to see Egyptian, Greek, and Islamic Art and great European paintings—are suddenly going to come to see contemporary art. This when there are a thousand commercial galleries all over New York, and how many museums with contemporary art? It’s nonsense."
  
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• Why Is The U.S. So Bad At Teaching Students Foreign Languages?

  03-08-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As an expert on language and literacy development in children, I've talked to many immigrant parents who expect their children to grow up bilingual, only to be surprised that they end up as monolingual English speakers. Meanwhile, foreign language learning opportunities for English speakers are limited. Why is the U.S. so bad at producing bilinguals?" Harvard education professor Catherine Snow suggests three reasons, and argues that it doesn't have to be this way.
  
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• Why American Schoolkids Aren't Learning How To Write Properly - And How To Fix That

  03-08-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Three-quarters of both 12th and 8th graders lack proficiency in writing, according to the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress. And 40 percent of those who took the ACT writing exam in the high school class of 2016 lacked the reading and writing skills necessary to successfully complete a college-level English composition class." The Common Core and No Child Left Behind were supposed to address this, and it hasn't worked. Dana Goldstein looks at the reasons why - and at the a
  
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• Preview the 2017 Seattle Art Fair

  03-08-2017 16:16 via artnews.com
  The third edition of the Seattle Art Fair opens to the public on Friday, August 4, with a preview day on Thursday, August 3. The fair will bring together 88 galleries from 26 international cities to the Emerald City. Among … Read More
  
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• William Gibson (Who Would Know) Talks About Our Current Cultural Obsession With Dystopias

  03-08-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This could be a case of consumers of a particular kind of pop culture trying to tell us something, alas. Seriously, what I find far more ominous is how seldom, today, we see the phrase 'the 22nd century.'"
  
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• Little Pompeii of Vienne is 'most exceptional excavation of a Roman site in 40 or 50 years'

  03-08-2017 16:05
  A major Roman settlement discovered south of Lyon in France is the most exceptional excavation of a Roman site in 40 or 50 years, says the chief archaeologist working on the project. Benjamin Clment, who works for the Swiss conservation company Archeodunum, is leading a team of 15 archaeologists at the dig in Saint Colombe, a small town near the city of Vienne.
   
  A series of mosaics and a fountain decorated with a statue of Hercules were among the discoveries made when the 5,500 sq. m site
  
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• City-wide festival aims to revive Venice’s glass industry

  03-08-2017 15:54
  Much like the city itself, Venices glassmaking industry is in grave danger of collapse. Competition from cheaper alternatives, a dearth of young glass blowers, tightened controls and a shift in tastes away from the elaborate productions for which Murano glass is known has rendered many furnaces redundant. But a group of enthusiasts is determined to revive its fortunes with the inaugural Venice Glass Week (TVGW; 10-17 September). The first international festival devoted to the medium, it is ambi
  
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• Why I Want To Build An Art Museum For Las Vegas

  03-08-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Condo developer Uri Vaknin: "Already a world-renowned dining, entertainment and shopping capital, our city is now becoming a cultural hub. The openings of The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, The Mob Museum and the Neon Museum signals a clear move in that direction. Yet, I remain dumbfounded that Las Vegas lacks a world-class art museum."
  
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• Patti Smith Remembers Her Buddy, Sam Shepard, And How She Helped Him Finish His Last Manuscript

  03-08-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Going over a passage describing the Western landscape, he suddenly looked up and said, 'I'm sorry I can't take you there.' I just smiled, for somehow he had already done just that. Without a word, eyes closed, we tramped through the American desert that rolled out a carpet of many colors - saffron dust, then russet, even the color of green glass, golden greens, and then, suddenly, an almost inhuman blue. Blue sand, I said, filled with wonder. Blue everything, he said, and the songs we sang had
  
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• Here’s the 2017 Paris Internationale Exhibitor List

  03-08-2017 15:05 via artnews.com
  Paris Internationale, an art fair devoted exclusively to young and emerging galleries, has named the exhibitors for its upcoming 2017 edition, which opens in the French capital on October 18, during FIAC. Fifty-four galleries will participate this year, with 13 … Read More
  
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• Can Private Funding Save Public-School Music Education?

  03-08-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In Philadelphia, they're trying: after-school programs like Play On, Philly! are now well-established, and both local musical institutions like the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Mann Center and major foundations are directing energy and money specifically to music and arts education. Yet, Peter Dobrin reminds us, there are dangers to look out for.
  
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• Morning Links: Spook-a-Rama Edition

  03-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Dirty Dancing: Choreographer Trajal Harrell Shakes Things (Ahem) Up

  03-08-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The voguing balls of Harlem, the hoochie koochie dances of rural America, the elaborate, prancing gait of runway models - these aren't influences that routinely feature in contemporary dance. Yet for the American choreographer Trajal Harrell they've proved extraordinarily fertile. ... His pieces might feature a man posing semi-naked in a pair of Hermès scarves, a woman encased in a small black cube meticulously removing her swimsuit, or a man in a gaudy oriental skirt, gravely shaking hi
  
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• Israeli Artist Claimed She Stole Items From Auschwitz For Her Work

  03-08-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ten days before her art school's graduate exhibition opened, Rotem Bides claimed that the objects in her installation in the show had been taken from the museum at the Auschwitz-Birkenau prison camp. All hell broke loose, and her work was about to be removed - then she released a statement swearing that the items had not been taken from the Auschwitz museum itself.
  
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• Seattle Voters Reject Sales Tax For Arts

  03-08-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Proposition 1, which requested a 0.1 percent sales tax - or a penny for every $10 spent - was being rejected by 55 percent of [King County] voters, with 45 percent approving."
  
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• Anger Over Gov't Funding For Emma Rice's New Theatre Company

  03-08-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Gosh, and everyone had seemed to be on her side. Wise Children, the troupe Rice is starting after she leaves Shakespeare's Globe, was awarded roughly £2 million (£475,000 per year) by Arts Council England, even though it didn't exist even on paper until eight days before the application deadline. What's more, Wise Children received money earmarked for southwestern England, which the company claims it will serve, even though it's registered in London and will be resident at the city's
  
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• Judith Jones, Who Edited Anne Frank, Julia Child, And John Irving, Dead At 93

  03-08-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  She launched her career by rescuing The Diary of Anne Frank from a reject pile in Paris and insisting to her boss that it must be published in English. While she worked on literary books throughout her decades at Knopf, overseeing works by Irving, Anne Tyler, and many others, she made her biggest impact on American life with cookbooks: she discovered and shepherded Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking as well as volumes by the likes of James Beard, Lidia Bastianich, Madhur Jaffrey, and Ed
  
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• Lost Keith Vaughan photographs go on show in London, capturing illicit love at a time when homosexuality was still illegal

  03-08-2017 13:36
  The London gallery Austin Desmond Fine Art has uncovered a group of early photographs and collages by the British artist Keith Vaughan. These experimental images chronicle the summer trips that Vaughan and a close group of male friends made to Pagham Beach in West Sussex in the late 1930s, on the cusp of the Second World War. Previously thought lost, the majority have never previously been shown publicly but will be exhibited for the first time at Austin Desmond from 25 October to 8 December. T
  
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• Channeling A Gay Black Avant-Garde (And Crazy) Composer In, Of All Places, The United Arab Emirates

  03-08-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Seph Rodney sees a music-and-video project about the late Julius Eastman at the Sharjah Biennial.
  
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• Edinburgh International Festival opening light show – in pictures

  03-08-2017 13:11
  Bloom transforms St Andrew Square into an immersive environment of colour, sound and texture to kick off the international festival Continue reading...
  
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• Edinburgh festival opening light show – in pictures

  03-08-2017 13:11
  Bloom transforms St Andrew Square into an immersive environment of colour, sound and texture to kick off the international festival Continue reading...
  
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• UK artist Alex Chinneck tears apart London building facade with new public work

  03-08-2017 12:27
  A new public work of art that involves tearing a building faade in two was unveiled this week on the Fulham Palace Road in London. The piece by the UK artist Alex Chinneck, titled Six pins and half a dozen needles (2017), adorns the new mixed-use development, Assembly London, in the west of the capital.   The piece, Chinnecks first permanent work, stands 20 metres above ground level, weighs ten tons and is constructed from 4,000 bricks and 1,000 stainless steel components. The install
  
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• Gold breastplate given to the Queen is unveiled at Buckingham Palace

  03-08-2017 11:26
  A unique Pre-Columbian gold breastplate, given to Queen Elizabeth in 1953, has been rediscovered in the Royal Collection and is now on display in Buckingham Palace. It was presented to the Queen to mark her coronation by the Panamanian president General Jos Remn Cantera. The importance of the piece went unrecognised and it was put into storage, remaining unknown to specialists. The gold breastplate stayed there until earlier this year when the Royal Collection curator Sally Goodsir examine
  
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• People can live with mental illness. I am living proof of this

  03-08-2017 11:03
  Art allowed me to express myself in a way I had never done before. I’ve come so far since my desperate suicide attemptWhen I was growing up in the 1970s, mental health issues were not widely understood or discussed.One morning when I was eight-years-old, I woke up in bed and felt funny, I was shaking. It had come out of the blue. I was terrified and didn’t know what was going on. I was diagnosed with a case of “bad nerves” and prescribed a few days off school. I now know
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.02.17

  03-08-2017 10:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who’da Thunk?
  I don’t like spending money. I’m leery of signing up for ongoing contracts for service unless I really, really have to (want to). So when we bought a new “pre-owned” car that came with a three-month trial subscription to SiriusXM™ satellite radio I was not overwhelmed with joy. But here’s what happened. ... read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-08-01Bard SummerScape’s latest operatic resurrection: Dvorak tak
  
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• Protest begins at home at the Whitney

  03-08-2017 09:48
  The Whitney Museum of American Art wont spare itself when it opens an exhibition about the art of protest on 18 August. Among the works opposing the Vietnam War, supporting the fight for civil rights, championing feminism and criticising Uncle Sam from the 1940s until today, will be examples of the Whitney in the firing line. The section called Strike, Boycott, Advocate: the Whitney Archive, looks at artists-led engagement with, and frequent opposition to the Whitney, says the press release. Am
  
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• Mountain passes and Maharajas: jewels of early Indian photography – in pictures

  03-08-2017 08:00
  The Getty Images Gallery marks the 70th anniversary of India’s independence from Britain this week with an exhibition of the nation’s earliest photography Continue reading...
  
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• NEH awards $39m in grants in last round of funding for 2017

  03-08-2017 00:55
  The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which the Trump administration previously targeted for elimination, announced its final round of grants for this fiscal year. Among the 245 projects around the country to receive a combined $39.3m in federal funding are an exhibition of commercial art made by Georgia OKeeffe for the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in the late 1930s and a series of studies at that explore the use of aerial thermal imaging on archaeological sites.
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