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• Noah Klersfeld at Arts+Leisure, New York

  10-08-2017 23:17 via artnews.com
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• Hey Jeff Bezos: How About Becoming The New Andrew Carnegie And Invest In Libraries?

  10-08-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Today, libraries are serving as essential civic places. Trusted by every part of American society, they're the only noncommercial places other than city squares where people meet across genders and ages. They provide all kinds of services and programming—just visit the glorious Madison, WI Central Library, where a first-rate makerspace is under the same LEED-certified roof as local service agencies helping people sign up for health care and food assistance.
  
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• Visions of 18th-century France: how the Goncourt brothers taught America about Rococo

  10-08-2017 23:00
  In May, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, opened the exhibition America Collects 18th-Century French Painting (until 20 August). The show, which includes 68 pictures, looks at the cross-Atlantic fashion for diverse styles of French painting, including works by artists as unalike as the Rococo painter Antoine Watteau and the Neo-classicist Jacques-Louis David. In this excerpt from the catalogue, which is available through the museum, the show's curator, Yuriko Jackall, outlines how
  
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• São Paulo’s dealers team up to organise a homegrown art fair

  10-08-2017 23:00
  The latest addition to the South American art circuit, Semana de Arte (14-20 August) is both an art fair and a multidisciplinary initiative. Taking over venues throughout So Paulo, the event includes architectural tours, film screenings, dance and theatre performances, as well as a three-day art fair at the citys Hotel Unique. Its an ambitious endeavour in light of the countrys ongoing corruption scandals and political turmoil, but dealers are optimistic that the timing of the fair, the veteran
  
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• Lime, sand and animal hair: on 18th-century British interiors

  10-08-2017 23:00
  The decorative arts have so often been sidelined by art historiansespecially architectural historiansbut Christine Caseys revelatory book, Making Magnificence: Architects, Stuccatori and the 18th-Century Interior, underscores how subjects such as plasterwork lie at the heart of many important European aesthetic and architectural achievements. Casey is the associate professor in architectural history at Trinity College Dublin. She has produced a compelling study, which is essential reading for a
  
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• How Radical Is Disney's Plans To Become A Streamer?

  10-08-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On the surface, it looks as if Disney is adopting the dual-distribution model HBO pioneered: It wants to sell retail OTT services directly to households, while continuing to sell wholesale TV programming through pay-TV operators. That “arguably reduces the consumer value of Netflix, which remains the biggest strategic challenge to linear networks in the expanded basic bundle long-term.”
  
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• Movie Theatre Company AMC's Stock Plunges As Box Office Pushes Lower, Lower

  10-08-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The biggest obstacle for the Leawood, Kan., company, which operates 1,000 cinemas and four of the nation’s top five grossing theaters, is the growing indifference from a new generation that has grown up with Netflix-style home entertainment. Millennials are eschewing the multiplex for movies and videos streamed to smartphones and other devices."
  
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• Report: The UK's Working Class Crisis In The Arts

  10-08-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The systematic eradication of arts education in schools, sky-high drama school audition fees, chronic low pay and a lack of diversity behind the scenes are all contributing to a diversity crisis on our stages and screens."
  
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• After Winning Golden Lion, Anne Imhof to Show at Galerie Buchholz in September

  10-08-2017 21:12 via artnews.com
  The show is a collaboration with Eliza Douglas, a performer in Imhof's German Pavilion piece. Read More
  
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• The Berlin Philharmonic's New Music Director Is Serious, Shy, And A Very Hard Worker

  10-08-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The new Berlin chief, in his mid-forties, is as close as you can get to being an unknown commodity. He has never given a media interview (my request for an off-the-record coffee was coolly declined) and has made just five commercial recordings. He refuses to play maestro games — you conduct my orchestra, I’ll conduct yours — and is no respecter of vanities. When the Berliners handed him Sir Simon Rattle’s job, Petrenko swiftly renewed his Munich contract until 2021. He&r
  
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• Former Director Of The V&A Martin Roth, 62

  10-08-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When he retired as director of the London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) last October he was in good health, but cancer was diagnosed immediately after he left.
  
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• Expo Chicago Names Artists for Public Art and Sound Sectors

  10-08-2017 20:09 via artnews.com
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• Why 'Krapp's Last Tape' Still Leaves Us (Ahem) Reeling

  10-08-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Albert Finney sobbed like an animal, Harold Pinter ramped up the terror and John Hurt even resembled Beckett himself." Why do actors and viewers keep coming back to the play - even, as Michael Billington writes, "someone like myself, who is not a fully paid-up member of the Beckett club"? Well, Billington says, "it is partly because of its perfect alliance of form and content."
  
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• Fred Plotkin: Here Are The Must-See New Operas Of The Coming Year

  10-08-2017 19:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There is a remarkable number of new works being commissioned. Some companies, such as Houston Grand Opera and San Francisco Opera, have long traditions of fostering new operas. There are indispensable groups you should know about, foremost among them Beth Morrison Projects and American Opera Projects that exist to create new opera. Visit their websites often.
  
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• The Rise And Fall Of The Louise Blouin Art Media Empire - Former Top Editor Of Artinfo Tells The Tale

  10-08-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ben Davis: "How many people out there still care about the implosion of the Blouin organization as we know it and its hail-mary mutation into an e-commerce hub? Not that many, it seems. And no one has done more than Louise Blouin herself when it comes to transforming her once formidable enterprise into a punch line. To measure the magnitude of her fall from grace, maybe it's worth going back 10 years. Then, Louise Blouin - at the time, still Louise Blouin MacBain - was the toast of the art world
  
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• The New Culture Wars - This Time From The Left?

  10-08-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Could it be that the populist anger that put President Trump in the White House will trigger a 21st-century culture war? It’s certainly possible. But to ask that question is to overlook the fact that such a war is already being waged. The difference is that it’s a civil war—one that’s taking place not on the right, but on the left."
  
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• Who Gets To Make Art Out Of Black Pain? Two Very Different New Movies Show Why It Matters

  10-08-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dana Stevens: "Both Detroit and Whose Streets? move from a large-scale panoramic view of an urban community in crisis toward a more intimate portrait of a few of the individuals involved. But Whose Streets? is the more effective and emotionally powerful of the two, perhaps because it constructs its world from the ground up, not from the top down. This is another way of framing a fact that's difficult to talk about (especially for a white critic) but important to note: The filmmaking team behind
  
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• Surprise Choice For New President Of Motion Picture Academy

  10-08-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In a meeting on Tuesday evening at the academy's Beverly Hills headquarters, the group's 54-member board of governors, including such Hollywood luminaries as Tom Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, elected [cinematographer John] Bailey to succeed outgoing President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who served four consecutive yearlong terms and steered the organization through one of the most transformative and sometimes turbulent periods in its long history."
  
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• Did They Just Discover The House Of Jesus's Disciples? (Not Yet)

  10-08-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The headlines got ahead of the actual news in this case, but here's what the archaeologists did find: the site of an ancient city on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee that they believe was Bethsaida, named in the Gospel of John as the hometown of the apostles Peter, Andrew, and Philip.
  
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• Even Sylvia Plath Is Involved In The American Health Care Debate

  10-08-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Plath's whole family figured she'd return to the U.S. after her marriage to Ted Hughes fell apart. She didn't. Her reasons were several: not disrupting her children's lives, getting child support out of Hughes, the work she was getting in London. Above them all: the experiences (and expense) she had had with the American medical system versus Britain's National Health Service.
  
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• The Opera Company That's Remaking Itself - And Making Itself Cool - By Working The Data

  10-08-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'This isn't some magic soup!' says David Devan of the data-driven, meticulously engineered transformation of Opera Philadelphia. The once sleepy, old-school company has become one of the most progressive forces on the opera scene. Having spent more than $600,000 on market research over the past five years, the company is now poised to launch the most ambitious component of its master plan: 'O17' will be the first in a series of annual festivals designed to reinvent the urban opera experience. S
  
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• Kevin Puts Talks About His Brand-New Opera, 'Elizabeth Cree'

  10-08-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Elizabeth is a fascinating character, for one thing. She starts with nothing but a horrid upbringing and finds herself singing alongside the most famous music hall performer of the day. I loved the way the story moves around chronologically as well - not something often done in opera - and a particular challenge, especially since I could tell the pace of the piece needed to be very quick. Not to mention the quirky inclusion of historical characters like Karl Marx!"
  
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• Another Public Sculpture Criticized For Mucking With Native American Culture (And This One's In A Rather Odd Spot)

  10-08-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This past spring, Sam Durant's Scaffold at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis drew enough criticism that the piece was disassembled entirely. (At least they held off on burning it.) This month, the dispute is over Del Geist's Bowfort Towers, a piece, meant to pay tribute to Blackfoot culture, that the city of Calgary has sited at an interchange on the Trans-Canada Highway.
  
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• Naked down under: Facebook censors erotic art

  10-08-2017 15:01
  Facebook has censored Fine Art Bourses (FAB) adverts for the online auction houses relaunch sale of erotic art on the grounds of indecency. In 2015, FAB, then based in London, went into receivership shortly before its first sale after running out of funds due to a delay in building the technology required to run the cloud-based auctions. But the founder, Tim Goodman, formerly owner of Bonhams & Goodman and then Sothebys Australia under license, has now relaunched the firm in his native Aust
  
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• NADA New York Moves to West SoHo for 2018 Edition

  10-08-2017 15:01 via artnews.com
  Next year's fair will run from March 8 to 11. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Pareidolia Edition

  10-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• This Is The *Real* Underground Art Scene In D.C.

  10-08-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An old Dupont Circle trolley station, unused for decades, has been turned into a subterranean art space called Dupont Underground that draws more than 3,000 visitors a month (so far).
  
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• Priceless Ancient Texts Found In Palimpsests At World's Oldest Continuously Operating Library

  10-08-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Seventy-four parchments that had been scraped over and re-used by the monks of St. Catherine's at Mt. Sinai during the Middle Ages are now being re-examined using cutting-edge spectrography. They've uncovered previously unknown Greek poems and treatises (including a pharmacological recipe by Hippocrates), some of the oldest Christian texts in Arabic, and writing in some ancient languages that had been thought unrecoverable.
  
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• An Urban Dance Form That Uses The Body As Both Percussion Instrument And Movement Medium

  10-08-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Gia Kourlas writes about step - " a percussive-movement tradition that uses the entire body as well as the voice and is popular in African-American fraternities and sororities" - and a new documentary about The Lethal Ladies, the girls' step team at a Baltimore high school.
  
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• Maybe Ballet Really Is Becoming More Diverse

  10-08-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In an article with the hopeful headline "The Future of Ballet Is Inclusive and Queer," Trina Mannino surveys the strides (ahem) that are being made, both at mainstream companies and in new troupes.
  
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• How Samizdat Recordings Were Smuggled Around During Soviet Days

  10-08-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The music flowing out of the record player sounds distant, muffled, surrounded by whispers. The singer's voice alternates moments of clarity with crackly sputters-- as if coming out of a wormhole from a windy day in the Fifties. You can get the sense that what is being played is no ordinary vintage record: indeed, on the platter, instead of a vinyl, is the X-Ray of some guy's skull, cut in the shape of a disc."
  
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• Book Piracy In Russia Is Even Worse Than Anyone Thought

  10-08-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Russian government (which you'd think might not want to publicize this) estimates that between a quarter and a third of all books on the market in the country are pirated. (The problem is virtually nil with print books, though; it's all in the e-book sector.) Even more worrisome is what one survey found about Russians' beliefs regarding pirated content.
  
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• Jim Carrey's art is yet more proof that Hollywood stars should avoid the canvas

  10-08-2017 12:30
  The comic actor’s short film about his paintings is painful viewing, but he’s not the first star who has tried, and failed, to moonlight as an artistThis is not a scientific law, probably, and I cannot suggest what causes the phenomenon, but the most embarrassing and talentless of all celebrities who try their hand at art tend to be Hollywood actors. Talentlesss at art, I mean. Jim Carrey may or may not be a great comic actor. He is an astonishingly bad painter and sculptor. Carrey h
  
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• Jim Carrey's art is proof Hollywood stars should avoid the canvas | Jonathan Jones

  10-08-2017 12:30
  The comic actor’s short film about his paintings is painful viewing, but he’s not the first star who has tried, and failed, to moonlight as an artistThis is not a scientific law, probably, and I cannot suggest what causes the phenomenon, but the most embarrassing and talentless of all celebrities who try their hand at art tend to be Hollywood actors. Talentlesss at art, I mean. Jim Carrey may or may not be a great comic actor. He is an astonishingly bad painter and sculptor. Carrey h
  
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• Five of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers to be reunited on Facebook

  10-08-2017 12:23
  Five of Van Goghs Sunflowers are to be brought together in a virtual exhibition that will be shown on Facebook Live next Monday (14 August). The live stream will include 15-minute presentations by curators from each of the five museums which own the paintings. These are the National Gallery (London), Neue Pinakothek (Munich), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam) and Sompo Museum (Tokyo).The five Sunflower paintings have never been brought together since they were dispers
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.09.17

  10-08-2017 11:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Should Museums Compare and Contrast Cultures?
  It seems to be a trend these days for art museums (and some galleries) to mix and match cultures and, sometimes, time periods. Sometimes, this is about breaking down so-called false hierarchies in art history ... read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-08-09
   
  
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• 'Utter eccentricity': the urban surrealism of Alex Chinneck – in pictures

  10-08-2017 08:15
  His melting houses and floating building have earned the British sculptor a reputation as a master of urban illusion. As his first-ever permanent work, Six Pins and Half a Dozen Needles, debuts at Assembly London, he tells us how he walks the fine line between architecture and sculpture Continue reading...
  
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• Director of Programming – The Joyce Theater, New York City

  10-08-2017 08:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Joyce Theater, located in the heart of Chelsea in New York City, is among the world’s best presentation venues for dance. With a 472-seat house, the theater was established by dancers for dance in 1982 and has exponentially grown to host approximately 48 weeks of dance companies annually, including intimate productions through Joyce Unleashed and large-scale internationally, renowned companies at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, and more. The Joyce Theater Foundation’
  
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• The roads where stars died in car crashes – in pictures

  10-08-2017 08:00
  James Dean, Grace Kelly, Marc Bolan, Albert Camus … Christophe Rihet photographs the roads where famous people died, shooting at dawn or dusk to bring a sense of calm. Captions by Camille Riquier Continue reading...
  
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• Vermeer was an authentic artistic genius – even if he did cheat | Simon Jenkins

  10-08-2017 07:00
  Who cares if, as a sensational new book argues, the painter traced and copied to achieve his effects? What matters is that the end results were sublimeJohannes Vermeer was a cheat. He was a printmaker, a tracer, a copyist. Some might say he was not a real artist at all. So suggests Jane Jelley in a new book, Traces of Vermeer, on the Dutch master. It is borderline sensational. Related: Vermeer: the artist who taught the world to see ordinary beautyRelated: Girl With The Pearl Earring: what's the
  
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• Tom of Finland review – intriguing biopic of a gay liberation hero

  10-08-2017 07:00
  Pekka Strang stars as the Finnish wartime artist Touko Laaksonen, whose homoerotic illustrations helped create the iconography of gay cultureFinnish artist Touko Laaksonen, known by his nom de plume Tom of Finland, is brought above the radar of cultural history in this well-acted biopic. In postwar Helsinki, in conditions of the gravest illegality, Laaksonen produced thousands on thousands of homoerotic fetish illustrations, showing bulgingly endowed leather-clad guys having an unapologetic good
  
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• How A Talented Detroit Teacher Teaches Music To Kids

  10-08-2017 00:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Young people like to play, so if you can make the material they’re trying to learn more kinesthetic, it helps it to stick a bit better. It’s a way to transform the classroom into a living, breathing art, so that it becomes a part of them, as opposed to material that they’re supposed to absorb and spit back out.”
  
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