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• Sam Davis and Paul Salveson at AWHRHWAR, Los Angeles

  08-08-2017 23:56 via artnews.com
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• ProyectosLA, Fair-Exhibition Hybrid Timed to Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Reveals Artists, Title

  08-08-2017 23:42 via artnews.com
  Luiza Teixeira de Freitas and Claudia Segura, the curators behind proyectosLA, an upcoming fair-exhibition hybrid that will coincide with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, have announced the names of the 62 participating artists, including Marta Minujín, Julio … Read More
  
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• Playing chicken at the White House

  08-08-2017 23:00
  A giant inflatable chicken with a golden coif of hair that resembles US President Donald Trump was installed in a public park in Washington within view of the White House on Wednesday as a protest against the American leader. The poultry pop-up was bought online for $1,300 by the documentary film-maker and organiser Taran Singh Brar, who told the Washington Examiner: We are out here to criticize our president for being weak and ineffective as a leader and being too afraid to release his tax ret
  
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• Hashem El Madani, Influential Lebanese Portrait Photographer, Dies

  08-08-2017 22:34 via artnews.com
  Akram Zaatari's Arab Image Foundation has helped preserve the photographer's work. Read More
  
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• Pope.L Is Raising Funds to Bottle, Sell Flint Water

  08-08-2017 22:19 via artnews.com
  The project will take place at What Pipeline in Detroit. Read More
  
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• Rediscovered Joseph Wright of Derby self-portrait goes on display

  08-08-2017 19:44
  Painting attributed to follower of Joshua Reynolds revealed as missing work by renowned British artistA quiet painting of a reflective man in a modest brown coat has been newly identified as a lost self-portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby – better known for dramatic scenes lit by candle or moonlight or the glare of an erupting volcano.“It’s a very honest portrait, very much the kind of picture you might give to a friend,” said Archie Parker, the art dealer who recognised W
  
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• Los Angeles Awards $3 M. in Grants for Art Programs

  08-08-2017 19:21 via artnews.com
  The Hammer Museum and LACMA are among the recipients. Read More
  
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• Artists commissioned for outdoor sculptures at Battersea power station

  08-08-2017 16:11
  Haffendi Anuar and Jesse Wine to create pieces inspired by Asian columns and Henry Moore for developmentTwo sculptors, Jesse Wine, who was born in Britain, and is based in New York, and the Malaysian artist Haffendi Anuar, have been announced as joint winners of the first commission to create major outdoor sculptures for the Battersea power station development.Wine’s sculptures will echo the reclining figures of Henry Moore, who showed work in nearby Battersea Park. However, they will incl
  
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• Search & Preserve: Yuji Agematsu Makes Monuments to Travels Near and Dear

  08-08-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  The New York artist explores ignored corners of the city for forsaken signs of life. Read More
  
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• Artist Puts Robot Spider On Cathedral - And Some Catholics Denounce It As 'Demonic'

  08-08-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The animatronic arachnid, called Kumo, was created by French street theater company La Machine and brought to Ottawa for the Canada 150 celebrations. Late last week, it was was installed on the side of the capital's Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica - for a visual juxtaposition with Louise Bourgeois's bronze spider, Maman, just across the street in front of the the National Gallery of Canada. But not all believers thought the sight was cool.
  
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• Alan Gilbert Gets Chilly Farewell From New York Philharmonic Musicians At Their Final Concert Together

  08-08-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Things seemed amicable enough at Gilbert's farewell concerts at Geffen Hall and in the New York City parks. But at a 70th anniversary concert for the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara last week, reports Mark Swed,"there was no acknowledgment of its music director from the orchestra during the bows - no tapping of bows on stands, practically no glances from the players at the conductor. ... When [L.A.] Master Chorale Music Director Grant Gershon hugged Gilbert the stage suddenly became r
  
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• Morning Links: Jim Carrey Edition

  08-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Shakespeare & Company's Tina Packer Has Now Directed All 37 Of Shakespeare's Plays

  08-08-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I never thought consciously, 'Oh, I’m going to do them all.' But I started noticing a progression in his writing of the women. In the beginning they're either shrews or sweet young things, but by the time he gets to his late plays, he says: 'Guys, you have to go with what the women say. Otherwise we're all lost.' That really made me want to keep going."
  
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• Opera Director Lee Blakeley Dies Suddenly At 45

  08-08-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He first got himself noticed with a provocative staging of Handel's Clori, Tirsi e Fileno in London's leading gay nightclub. He worked extensively at Covent Garden, San Francisco and Los Angeles Operas, Opera Theater of St. Louis, and especially Santa Fe Opera; his highest-profile project in Europe was directing a series of American musicals (in English) at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
  
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• Israel Arrests Palestinian Antiquities Dealers In Hobby Lobby Smuggling Case

  08-08-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Authorities arrested five Palestinian antiquities dealers in Jerusalem and confiscated items dating back thousands of years from their homes and shops: papyrus fragments from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the bust of an Etruscan woman, a fresco from Pompeii depicting swimming fish. They also seized more modern objects - two black luxury Audi vehicles - and more than $200,000 in cash."
  
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• These Folks Won't Let Tourism And Pricey Real Estate Chase Them Out Of Venice - They're Squatting

  08-08-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With houses in the city selling for a million euros or so as vacation homes, working- and middle-class Venetians have been getting priced out of their hometown. "Now an organized movement of illegal squatters is laying claim to abandoned, dilapidated housing."
  
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• Netflix Buys Itself A Comic-Book Company

  08-08-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Netflix has made its first acquisition, buying the Glasgow-based comic book company behind Kick-Ass and Kingsman, as it looks to imitate Marvel-owner Disney’s superhero strategy."
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra Gets $5 Million To Spotlight Its Concert Hall's Organ

  08-08-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The program, "which is to begin this coming season, will make the orchestra and the Kimmel [Center] even more organcentric: commissioning new works; programming additional organ concertos and orchestral works that weave organ in and out of the overall texture; holding community concerts, recitals, and postlude concerts; and providing real-time program notes that explain the way the organ works."
  
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• The buildings fuelling Iran's national heritage list

  08-08-2017 13:16
  Who says practical things cant be beautiful? Iran has put its two oldest petrol stations on its national heritage list, making the monuments part of the countrys first petroleum museum. But these are no ordinary petrol stationsFourth Fuel Distribution Station in downtown Tehran, which was built by the Anglo Persian Oil Company between 1925-41, is covered in bright glazed tiles and boasts the same classic Islamic architectural features, including geometric patterns and arches, that can be seen o
  
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• Two members of Pussy Riot detained after protesting against film-maker's imprisonment

  08-08-2017 12:35
  Two members of the Russian artist collective Pussy Riot were detained for several hours by police on Monday for protesting against the imprisonment of the Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov. Maria Alyokhina and Olga Borisova were arrested in Yakutsk in eastern Siberia after unfurling a Free Sentsov banner and setting off coloured flares on a bridge outside the prison where the film-maker is serving a 20-year sentence. Sentsov was convicted of terrorist acts after voicing opposition to
  
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• Cos I’m happy: Paa Joe’s uplifting Ghanaian fantasy coffins

  08-08-2017 12:20
  What brings together Ghanaian fantasy coffins and the idea that art can save you? The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness (until 24 August), the latest exhibition at Jack Shainman on show across the gallerys 24th Street Chelsea location in New York and its other venue, The School in Kinderhook. The showa 50-strong smorgasbord featuring big names such as El Anatsui, Hank Willis Thomas and Nan Goldinrevolves around two thematic groups: a collection of Gold Coast slave castles
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.07.17

  08-08-2017 11:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sunrise, Sunset and Subjective Connections
  Can we name a universal aesthetic experience, one that all peoples around the globe have encountered from the beginning of humanity to the present?  Probably not.  But if we wanted to come close, we could ... read more
  AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2017-08-07The Artist in His Studio – Matisse: and These are a Few of His Favourite Things
  The artist’s studio is different things to different people. I’ve been in qu
  
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• Center Theatre Group: Junior Publicist Position Open

  08-08-2017 02:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We entertain. We create. We engage. We inspire. As one of the nation’s most influential nonprofit theatre companies, Center Theatre Group provides the broadest range of theatrical entertainment in the country at the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre. Whether it’s producing new work through our robust artistic development programs or engaging people of all ages across Los Angeles through our community and education programs, we put theatre at the center of i
  
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• Director of External Affairs, Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth

  08-08-2017 01:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  To be the chief marketing, branding, publicity and communications strategist for the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth building broad and diverse audiences from the Dartmouth and Upper Valley communities and beyond. The Director of External Affairs functions as the principal staff-level leader in marketing and communications for the Hop, developing a public “brand” that represents artistic excellence, national prominence, program accessibility, community involvement and educat
  
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• Some Existential Questions About Music And Artificial Intelligence

  08-08-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Whether businesses or researchers, these teams are trying to answer the same question: can machines create music, using AI technologies like neural networks to be trained up on a catalogue of human-made music before producing their own? But these companies’ work poses another question too: if machines can create music, what does that mean for professional human musicians?"
  
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