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• Writer Who Wrote About A Writer Murdering People Is Arrested For Murdering People

  17-08-2017 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I came up with the idea after reading some detective novels and watching crime shows and movies,” Mr. Liu wrote at the time. “The working title is: ‘The Beautiful Writer Who Killed.’” But what was assumed to be a fictional crime story took a turn into reality last week when Mr. Liu, 53, was arrested on accusations of bludgeoning four people to death 22 years ago.
  
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• John Houck at Boesky West, Aspen

  17-08-2017 23:29 via artnews.com
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• Art means business in San Francisco

  17-08-2017 23:13
  A new economic prosperity impact report, organised by the non-profit organisation Americans for the Arts, reveals that San Franciscos arts and culture sector annually brings in $1.45 billion and supports over 39,000 full-time jobs. According to the report, the City by the Bay accounts for nearly 1% of the $166.3 billion generated by the sector nationwide, and San Francisco is just one of 341 regions across the country studied by the organisation.
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• Robot To Conduct Italian Orchestra And Bocelli In Concert

  17-08-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Swiss humanoid robot is to conduct a Tuscan orchestra in the works of Verdi alongside Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. The robot, called YuMi, will be the closest a humanoid has come to mastering the nuances of a human orchestra director when he performs.
  
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• Ornate, unlike Duchamp: on Florine Stettheimer at the Jewish Museum

  17-08-2017 23:00
  So much has been made of Florine Stettheimers life and social position that walking into Painting Poetry, a show of her paintings at the Jewish Museum in New York, is almost startling. Confronted with her Family Portrait II (1933) immediately upon entering the exhibition, her mastery of painting is clear, and it promptly supersedes talk of her familys money, their Jewishness and her feminism, as well as the stories about her sisters, their salons and their famous friends. Seemingly bursting fro
  
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• India Art Fair gets new director for tenth edition

  17-08-2017 23:00
  Neha Kirpal, who founded the India Art Fair in 2008, is stepping down from her role as director, with Jagdip Jagpal being appointed to the position. Kirpal will continue to have an active role in the development of the fair, as its founder and co-owner. Jagpal has worked on a number of cultural projects in the UK, China and the South Asian region. Most recently she collaborated on New North and South, a scheme spearheaded by Maria Balshaw, formerly the director of the Whitworth in Man
  
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• Exclusive clip from new Alberto Giacometti film A Final Portrait

  17-08-2017 23:00
  An exclusive clip from Final Portrait, a new film based on the true story of when the US writer James Lord sat for a portrait by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. The film is written and directed by Stanley Tucci and features Geoffrey Rush as Giacometti and Armie Hammer as Lord. The film is released in the UK today (18 August). For more on Giacometti, see Giacomettis Women of Venice sculptures restored and reunited for Tate Modern show
  
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• Artist gives new life to Nosferatu

  17-08-2017 23:00
  The New York-based Italian artist Andrea Mastrovito has spent the past three years working on an animated adaptation of FW Murnaus Nosferatu: Symphony of Horror, the classic German Expressionist silent film (1922) based on the Dracula story by Bram Stoker (1897), using its treatment of fear and the unknown it to look at immigrationfor instance, the vampire as a symbol of the otherand other major socio-political issues in this millenium. In Mastrovitos adaptation, NYsferatu: Symphony of a Centur
  
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• Art school under fire for bowing to transgender student complaints

  17-08-2017 23:00
  A storm has been brewing at American universities in the past few years over what can be taught in the classroom. Critics have accused administrations of stifling faculty and overprotecting students by using a gender-discrimination law known as Title IX and by insisting on trigger warnings for potentially controversial material covered in the curriculum. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is now at the centre of the storm, due to its treatment of Michael Bonesteel, an adjunct pro
  
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• BBC Asks To Vet Conductor's Speech At Proms

  17-08-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Disclosing the BBC would see a draft of the speech, he joked : "But of course, if I start to speak something completely different, I don't think anyone can stop me.
  
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• Associate Director of Individual Giving, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, PA

  17-08-2017 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reporting to the Director of Development, the Associate Director of Individual Giving is responsible for the strategic execution and management of a comprehensive individual giving program, anchored by the Friends of Curtis and the Leopold Stokowski Society giving programs, tailoring annual fundraising campaigns to meet the needs of its core constituents – alumni, parents and non-Board individuals. This position serves as an integral member of the relationship manager team within the Advan
  
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• Kara Walker Writes An Angry Letter To The Art World

  17-08-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I know what you all expect from me and I have complied up to a point. But frankly I am tired, tired of standing up, being counted, tired of ‘having a voice’ or worse ‘being a role model,'” she writes in a new artist statement hating on artist statements, for a show opening Sept. 7 at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., in Manhattan.
  
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• Fairy Tales As Useful Caution

  17-08-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I’ve been asked in interviews, in classrooms and by audiences, if I think fairy tales are feminist. I think they are, but not by our modern definition of feminism. Traditional fairy tales were created long before any such notion existed, and I’d say they help women, rather than lift up women. They warn, rather than extol. They’re useful, which is a much older kind of feminism."
  
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• How To Keep New Plays From The One-Run-And-Done Fate? 'Rolling World Premieres'

  17-08-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Rolling World Premiere project, operated by the National New Play Network, "helps underwrite new plays to make sure they get at least three separate productions in three totally separate markets, all within 12 months - and all billed as world premieres as the play 'rolls' cross-country to various theaters, casts, and settings."
  
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• Michael Cooper: Bayreuth, Nazis And Charlottesville

  17-08-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It was my first visit to the Bayreuth Festival, and I was wrestling with conflicting emotions. There was the thrill of realizing my long-held dream of hearing Richard Wagner’s music in the opera house he built, where some of my favorite recordings were made. But there was queasiness, too, at the inescapable memories of old photos showing the theater defiled during the Nazi era, festooned with swastikas and visited regularly by Hitler. Then I stepped outside at intermission on Sa
  
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• Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch, Hayao Miyazaki - Why Are All These Retired Directors Unretiring?

  17-08-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Miyazaki has nothing left to prove. But for the other directors it's hard not to suspect that the old retirement hokey-cokey - in, out, in, out - is at least partly driven by PR reasoning. ... If that's what's going on, then these vacillating retirees have been forced into it by the tumultuous state of cinema. They're taking action on a commonly voiced complaint: that the studios' franchise addiction has sucked financing out of mid-range-budget films."
  
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• Paula Vogel: Art As Outsider

  17-08-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The truth is, everybody is an outsider. Everybody. So, we mustn't fear presenting that in a work of art so that people have different ways of seeing their outsiderness reflected. This is what I say to young people: "It is not a waste of your life to be a writer, or to work in the arts." I think the more we see ourselves represented, the more that opens up possibilities for younger people.
  
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• How Jeff Koons's 'Banality' Established Current Copyright Law For Artists

  17-08-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Banality shows spurred five lawsuits, some decades after the original exhibit. One is pending today, almost 30 years after the show, while another settled out of court. Koons lost the remaining three, with courts finding him liable for copyright infringement and rejecting his fair use defense: that he was parodying the source material. But importantly for the art world, ... [those judgments] have helped to define when artists can and cannot use the work of others for their own pieces, makin
  
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• To Hear How Jazz Got Pushed To The Side Of American Culture, Listen To This One Night In 1967

  17-08-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alan Iverson: "Ellington could connect all the dots—the social, the modernist, the intellectual, the populist, the personally poetic—for a vision of American music truly epic in scope. As great as Evans was, he didn’t have that kind of command. Fifty years ago, the basic connection to a larger audience was slipping away. The integrity of the song was getting diluted by the scale. A kind of darker and mysterious undercurrent was giving way to something lighter in affect."
  
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• British art comes under the spotlight at Cheltenham Literature Festival

  17-08-2017 18:23
  The BBCs arts editor, Will Gompertz, will lead a series of talks, discussions and interviews at the Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. The Story of British Art series forms part of the festivals art, design and architecture strand, which will also feature discussions with the artists Martin Parr and David Mach.The theme of this years festival, which runs from 8-15 October, is Who Do We Think We Are?, questioning what it means to be British in the current period of political
  
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• Can Designers And Artists Re-Brand The South Bronx?

  17-08-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, there are gentrification worries, but "these businesses and others are ambassadors of Bronx culture at large, said Jerome LaMaar, [boutique] 9J's dapper owner. 'And what's a brand without the right ambassador to push it?' Here, a look at some of those South Bronx ambassadors and their pioneering efforts in this new frontier."
  
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• Chinese Action Movie Breaks Box Office Records And Signals New Era For Chinese Movies

  17-08-2017 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We must admit that for a long time your Hollywood movies have been better made than Chinese movies, so we watched them all,” said Zou Ping, a parcel delivery worker in his 20s, leaving a showing of “Wolf Warrior 2” in Beijing. “But now you must also admit that this movie was pretty good, and it has a Chinese hero. It feels good to be on the side of justice.”
  
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• The First Black Movie Star In Britain Is Still Here At Age 100 (And He Says He's Not Retired)

  17-08-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "He's appeared in Ealing dramas, a James Bond movie and played a wily dictator in Sidney Pollack's The Interpreter. But if [Earl] Cameron never quite achieved leading-man status, that was hardly his fault - there were other factors at play. ... In hindsight, perhaps, he peaked too early. He broke the mould on his very first film. Shot in 1951, Basil Dearden's thriller Pool of London cast him as Johnny, a young sailor who battles racists at the docks and romances a white girl beside Greenwich Obs
  
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• This Black New York Actor Became The Toast Of 19th-Century Europe

  17-08-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[Ira] Aldridge's career as an actor was exceptional, and not just for a black actor at that time. He traveled farther, was seen by audiences in more countries, and won more medals, decorations, and awards than any other actor of his century."
  
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• Without Walls: From the Frigid Arctic to Ethiopia’s Blistering Afar Triangle, Artists Test Their Muscle and Mettle

  17-08-2017 16:17 via artnews.com
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• All fired up: Tate Modern to play host to a working ceramics factory

  17-08-2017 16:13
  Visitors can volunteer in factory, featuring eight tonnes of clay, a 30-metre production line and more than 2,000 fired objectsIt might not be everyone’s idea of a fun day out but visitors to a new art installation at Tate Modern are being invited to knuckle down and do some work in a ceramics factory. They can mould or cast jugs or, if they prefer, mop the floor.The gallery has announced details of of one of its most ambitious commissions, a production line art installation which will tak
  
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• Scene Stealers: ‘Dioramas’ Set Many Stages at the Palais de Tokyo

  17-08-2017 16:09 via artnews.com
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• Art Cannot Solve America's Race Problems, Says One Of America's Leading Black Female Artists

  17-08-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kara Walker, in the artist's statement for her newest show: "I am tired, tired of standing up, being counted, tired of 'having a voice,' or worse, 'being a role model,' Tired, true, of being a featured member of my racial group and/or my gender niche."
  
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• What Confederate Monuments Really Mean, And Why They Must Come Down: Philip Kennicott

  17-08-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Our statuary is largely derived from and better suited to authoritarian societies than democratic ones because monuments require assent to a common proposition: This man was great. They are meant to put historical truths into final form, beyond debate, literally etched in stone."
  
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• Hard Truths Or Easy Targets? New York Times Theater Critics Assess The Summer Of Trump

  17-08-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alexis Soloski, Ben Brantley, and Jesse Green survey the scene - and the damage. As Brantley puts it, "I don't experience catharsis unless I'm startled into feeling more deeply than I do just reading the headlines on my phone."
  
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• American Boychoir And Its School To Shut Down

  17-08-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Throughout its 80-year history, the choir has performed for presidents, on television and radio, and at places like Carnegie Hall and the Academy Awards. The choir toured the country and world and performed as many as 100 concerts each year." But in recent years the school has been plagued by declining enrollment, cash shortages, and a sexual abuse scandal.
  
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• Morning Links: Ramen Museum Edition

  17-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• At 'Pompeii Of The Middle East', 1,200-Year-Old Mosaic Workshop Unearthed

  17-08-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The ancient house was likely undergoing a remodel when, on Jan. 18, 749, the massive earthquake struck Jerash, located in what is now Jordan ... Before the earthquake, artisans were putting together mosaics for the floors of the house, but they abandoned their artwork after the natural disaster struck. This abandonment turned the house into a time capsule, allowing modern-day archaeologists a chance to see how artisans from the Umayyad - the early Islamic period - assembled these decorative mos
  
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• What's Charlotte Ballet's New Artistic Director Been Doing There? You Have No Idea

  17-08-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In 14 months of affiliation with the company - only two as its artistic director - [Hope Muir] has hired an astonishing array of new choreographers, rehired all but two members of the first company, endeared herself to donors from Charlotte to Chautauqua, N.Y., begun to investigate national and international tours, created a choreographic lab to inspire new dancemakers, put together a collaboration for the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra's Classical series in April, said goodbye to resident choreo
  
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• The Next Big Dance Technique? Countertechnique

  17-08-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'Many older techniques have a strong inner logic,' says [Countertechnique creator Anouk] van Dijk, who now directs Melbourne-based Chunky Move. 'But I found they didn't prepare the body for when the dancer has to be highly versatile.' Countertechnique equips dancers with a range of skills and teaches them to apply them within familiar movements. This gives dancers more agency, which van Dijk believes can reduce anxiety in performance and even help dancers prevent and recover from injury."
  
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• The Book Fairies Hit Bangkok

  17-08-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince. Hemingway's Cat in the Rain. Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie. "Fairies hid copies of these books and more in public places this past weekend as a local launch of The Book Fairies project, an international initiative in which people leave texts for others to discover in cities around the world. After readers finish a book, they are supposed to pass it on to others."
  
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• Andrew Lloyd Webber Brings His Musical Theatre Juggernaut Into The Chinese Market

  17-08-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group has announced a new partnership with one of China's largest live entertainment groups to develop the country's musical theatre industry. Among the first projects to be announced are the first Chinese-language production of Tell Me on a Sunday and a training course taught in collaboration with Arts Educational Schools."
  
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• New CEO Of Grantmakers In The Arts (Oh, And GIA Is Moving Out Of Seattle To NYC)

  17-08-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Edwin Torres has a strong and diverse history in arts philanthropy. Prior to joining the NYC Cultural Affairs office, he was an associate director with The Rockefeller Foundation and director of external partnerships for Parsons School of Design at The New School. He served on the GIA board of directors from 2011 through 2016. He has also served on the arts and culture team at Ford Foundation as well as on the staff of Bronx Council on the Arts. He holds a Master of Arts in Art History from Hun
  
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• Charlottesville riot hastens removal of Confederate monuments throughout the US

  17-08-2017 12:43
  A violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on 12 August, which started around the planned removal of a statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the city, has intensified debates over what to do with Confederate monumentsand what they stand for. Are these monuments symbols of heritage or hatred? Should they be kept as historical reminders, or moved to museums? Should they be dismantled or destroyed?
   
  The city council of Baltimore, Maryland acted quickly this w
  
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• Doris Salcedo’s latest work: a memorial for drowned migrants

  17-08-2017 12:19
  Doris Salcedo is the latest artist to highlight the refugee crisis, with a new work honouring migrants due to go on show in Madrid later this year. The vast public art piece by the Colombian artist, part of the ongoing Palimpsest series (6 October-1 April), will go on display in the Palacio de Cristal in the Parque del Retiro, a venue run by the Reina Sofia Museum.
   
  The work is dedicated to all of those who have drowned in the Mediterranean and Atlantic in the past 20 years, emigrating in
  
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• India's new Partition Museum opens near Pakistani border

  17-08-2017 11:48
  Seventy years after the traumatic division of Pakistan and India at the close of the British Empire, the worlds first Partition Museum has formally opened to the public. Housed in the colonial-style Town Hall in the Indian border city of Amritsar, the 17,000 sq. ft museum has crowdsourced much of its collection from the families of some of those caught up in the largest mass migration in history. An estimated 14 million people were displaced. Artefacts range from identity cards, steamer trunks
  
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• Gainsborough by James Hamilton review – the painter’s secret sauciness

  17-08-2017 10:00
  An astute biography casts a new light on famous paintings and underlines the importance of the artist’s risque private lifeThomas Gainsborough’s early masterpiece, Mr and Mrs Andrews (c1750), has long been read as a celebration of that pivotal moment in mid-Georgian Britain when man managed to wrestle nature to its knees and tell it what to do. To one side of the painting are the recently married Robert and Frances Andrews, a lucky young couple handsomely dressed in a rustle of
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.16.17

  17-08-2017 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Emil Viklický & Others: Trumpet Summit
  It is an open secret long acknowledged nearly everywhere: the best jazz musicians in other parts of the world are in a league with top players from the United States. ... read more
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• Korea's avant garde go nuclear – in pictures

  17-08-2017 08:00
  The term ‘performance art’ did not exist in South Korea until rebellious artists began experimenting in the 60s and 70s – against a backdrop of violent repression and political turmoil. These archive images reveal how their work was a challenge to the country’s authoritarian rulersContinue reading...
  
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• Why A Track Of Ten Minutes Of Silence Is Climbing Apple's iTunes Charts

  17-08-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On Twitter, people have called the song the best thing to ever happen to me,” and another claimed “you’ve just blessed my life in the most wonderful and unexpected of ways.”
  
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