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• Acrostics As Subversive Protest

  24-08-2017 23:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s a trick that’s been tried twice in recent days. First members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities spelled out “RESIST” with the first letter of each paragraph in their joint resignation letter. Then Daniel Kammen, formerly the science envoy at the State Department, resigned in a letter that contained the acrostic “IMPEACH.”
  
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• Hundreds Rally In Moscow To Protest Detention Of Leading Theatre Director

  24-08-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For four years Kirill Serebrennikov’s Gogol Center has played an important role in Moscow’s cultural life. It was funded by the state but it was Serebrennikov, the theater’s artistic director, who managed this unique venue that provided a platform for political thought and that many fans called “a new place of power.”
  
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• Designs for Nicolas Berggruen’s mountaintop thinktank revealed

  24-08-2017 23:00
  The designs for the new Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles founded by the art collector and billionaire Nicolas Berggruen have been revealed. The high-profile Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meurons plans for the institute campus encompass a linear park, or gardened plinth moulded from concrete and wood, according to the Los Angeles Times.Berggruen has bought a 447-acre plot in the Santa Monica Mountains, north of the Getty Center, for the political and cultural thinktank. The new insti
  
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• Conservators remove fungus and cobwebs from Gurlitt hoard

  24-08-2017 23:00
  Conservators at the Kunstmuseum Bern are busy mending tears and warps, and removing cobwebs, dust and corrosion from works of art which the museum inherited from Cornelius Gurlitt. Last week, the museum opened a special workshop to treat the collection before it goes on show in Taking Stock of Gurlitt: Degenerate ArtSeized and Sold, which opens in November. The public can take organised tours of the studio ahead of the exhibition.The Kunstmuseum Bern has so far received 220 works from the hoard
  
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• Abstract Expressionist dealer Samuel Kootz is at the centre of a new exhibition

  24-08-2017 23:00
  The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville joins a growing number of institutions and galleries holding exhibitions about the careers of art dealers.
  Today, 25 August, the museum opens Dealer's Choice: the Samuel Kootz Gallery, 1945-66 (until 17 December), which looks at the career and legacy of the New York gallerist who championed the Abstract Expressionists. The exhibition includes more than 50 works by artists like Robert Motherwell, Hans Hofmann, Adolph Gottl
  
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• A Name By Any Other Spelling? USC Challenges Spelling The Bard

  24-08-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "To E, or not to E, that is the question,” USC said in a statement. “Over the centuries his surname has been spelled 20 different ways. USC chose an older spelling because of the ancient feel of the statue, even though it is not the most common form."
  
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• Bernardo Ortiz at Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo

  24-08-2017 22:04 via artnews.com
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• New World Record For Dancing Robots (No, Seriously - And You Can See Video Here)

  24-08-2017 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "On a large plaza in the city last week, company staff diligently set up more than one thousand of the 18-inch robots to attempt the dancing record. You’ll be pleased to know that the team achieved the feat, with a total of 1,069 Dobi robots strutting their stuff in sync with one another, and as a consequence delighting the Guinness World Record officials who had traveled to Guangzhou to verify the effort."
  
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• What Cities Lose When Alt-Weeklies Die

  24-08-2017 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The shortage of smart, professional digital newsgathering in smaller American cities is a real problem with no immediate solution on the horizon; sadly, the number of eyeballs likely to land before a local story online isn’t enough to generate the income that would justify making it. In the longer term we probably can’t crowdfund our way out of that.
  
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• How The New Yorker Trades On Its Unique Style

  24-08-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The magazine’s paper subscription slips have long carried a tagline: 'The best writing, anywhere.' It follows that the source of the best writing, anywhere, must also be the finest available authority on grammar, usage, and punctuation. But regular readers know that The New Yorker’s signature is not standard usage, but its opposite."
  
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• How Big Tech Is Ushering In The Third Wave Of Video Entertainment

  24-08-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Just as the cable revolution overturned broadcast, the net is destined to become the dominant mode of video, both in terms of transit and programming. The cable industry is seemingly protected by its built-in local monopolies, but as broadband connections proliferate—by now rendering the copper cable connection almost obsolete—the only thing propping up the status quo is a business arrangement that bundles channels together for a steep price. As more people cut the cord—and as
  
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• Relax and Plug In: Jillian Mayer Makes Sculpture for the Screen-Obsessed

  24-08-2017 20:18 via artnews.com
  The artist's "Slumpies" aim to facilitate quality phone time. Read More
  
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• Are Alt-Weeklies Dying?

  24-08-2017 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Storied alt-weeklies like Philadelphia City Paper, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Boston Phoenix, Knoxville, Tennessee's Metro Pulse and its replacement may have shut down.  But last week, Local Independent Online News Publishers reported that it added 19 new members in 15 states. LION now has 160 local news publishers as members in 39 states. So are alt-weeklies dying? Or are they finding a kind of new life online?
  
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• End Of An Era: Village Voice Writers Reflect On The End Of The Legendary Weekly's Print Edition

  24-08-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I think everybody was stunned," film editor Alan Scherstuhl told Esquire. "You know how you always expect this will be the last month things keep going? Everybody is kind of surprised, but also like, 'I can't believe we got away with it this long.'"
  
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• Rob Baker and Leah Dickerman Appointed to New Roles at MoMA

  24-08-2017 19:28 via artnews.com
  The former Tate marketing chief and current MoMA curator will move into new jobs in marketing and editorial strategy. Read More
  
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• Beloved Sculpture Park in Queens Announces Artists in New ‘Socrates Annual’

  24-08-2017 19:05 via artnews.com
  Fifteen new projects by emerging artists will find a home in New York. Read More
  
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• Walmart Family Gives $150 Million To Establish Arkansas's First Art School

  24-08-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The school will emphasise the study of art in the US and Americas, says the university’s chancellor, Joseph Steinmetz, and administrators hope that the art school will attract a greater number of out-of-state and international students. Around 6% of the current student body is from outside of the US, representing 112 countries, according to the university’s website.
  
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• The Manchester Model - A Solution For Shared Community Arts Spaces?

  24-08-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The idea is to offer areas that are affordable to everyone, all the while “cross-pollinating” ideas that lead to a culturally vibrant city, whether it’s providing a desk for a playwright, allowing a theatre group share services with an asylum seeker’s support group, or renting out a cheap space for a club DJ to try out music’s next big thing (maybe).
  
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• Netflix Is A Player. But Does It Have An Aesthetic?

  24-08-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Sensibility? Aesthetic? Identity? Netflix ain’t got time for that. Its story started out as one of revolution, which has instead been overtaken by a case of quantity over quality. Now, rather than being known for a house style or a tastemaking effect on popular culture, it is becoming known for its raw desire to win the race, bragging about its latest deals (Shonda Rhimes! David Letterman!) and conquests."
  
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• 'As a satirist, I can barely keep up': the stories behind the Trump magazine covers

  24-08-2017 17:43
  The artists who have found inspiration, and a deep well of satire, in a chaotic administration reveal the thinking behind some of the most notable covers of the past seven monthsBanner illustration by Howard McWilliam for The Week Continue reading...
  
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• Can Twitter Be An Engine For Fan-Sourced Movies?

  24-08-2017 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At their core, these Twitter-generated film concepts evince a desire for representation beyond Hollywood’s limited, predominantly white imagination. But while Black Twitter continues to be an unprecedented vehicle for creativity—and, increasingly, a reliable form of audience focus-testing for Hollywood—can a viral fancasting phenomenon like this realistically change the industry’s status quo?"
  
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• What The French Understood About Jerry Lewis

  24-08-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Agnès C. Poirier: "Jerry Lewis was always a subject of a deep trans-Atlantic misunderstanding, one that triggered sarcasm in the United States, and bewilderment in France. While some Americans felt embarrassed by this contortionist comic, the French embraced Mr. Lewis's humor as both an abstract art and social satire of American life. Americans mocked the French for falling for this crass clown, while the French couldn't understand why Mr. Lewis's genius was not obvious to his compatriots
  
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• 60,000 Works By Dalí Are Coming To Market

  24-08-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They're ceramic tiles (who knew?), designed and produced in Spain in 1954, and titled, collectively, La Suite Catalane.
  
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• Derek Shiel obituary

  24-08-2017 16:24
  
  My friend Derek Shiel, who has died aged 78, was a painter, writer on the arts and producer of films and stage productions. His figurative and abstract paintings in acrylic have been exhibited since the 1960s in Scotland, England, Switzerland and the US, and his books have most notably covered the Welsh poet and painter David Jones as well as the artist Arthur Giardelli. He also made three films on Jones.Derek was born and raised in Blackrock, County Dublin, the son of Alec, a partner in Kelly &
  
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• A Musical Plays For Thousands, Deep In The Dakota Badlands

  24-08-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Laura Collins-Hughes travels to western North Dakota to see The Medora Musical, "a spangled summertime revue performed in an amphitheater carved into the side of a butte, with the Badlands as its backdrop. Part country music jamboree, part variety show, it's a wholesome cousin to the loosely scripted entertainment you find at theme parks ... The crowds have been coming since 1965, and when this season wraps up on Sept. 9, the producers expect attendance for 2017 to have passed 116,000."
  
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• Conference: Communicating the Museum Los Angeles

  24-08-2017 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  We are proud to present the 19th edition of Communicating the Museum, the world’s leading arts communications conference.
  This Fall, Los Angeles will host CTM17 LA at the J. Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, Hammer Museum, Natural History Museum and in many other cultural institutions from 6-9 November 2017.
  During 4 days, 300 culture professionals from 30+ countries will focus on the theme "Museums Beyond Walls". Join us to discuss the role of museums in society and how they reach out to diverse
  
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• Movie Stars Who Came To Grief On Broadway

  24-08-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alexis Soloski: "Though [Denzel] Washington's first Broadway outing, as Brutus in Julius Caesar, generated tepid reviews, he has since become a heavy hitter, winning a Tony for Fences in 2010 and warm notices for A Raisin in the Sun in 2014. But some celebrities haven't gained the same applause. Here are ten Hollywood luminaries and pop sensations who made lesser appearances on the Great White Way."
  
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• 'The Davos Of Classical Music': A Reporter Watches The Grandees At The Salzburg Festival

  24-08-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Cooper sees Peter Gelb lunching with William Kentridge, Riccardo Muti at a reception for his new vinyl LP (yes, in 2017), the classical chief for Apple Music listening to Daniil Trifonov play, and Anna Netrebko on the front page of the newspapers (even the tabloids).
  
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• Trickster Strategies: Leandro Erlich’s Thought-Provoking Survey Kept Viewers on Edge

  24-08-2017 15:08 via artnews.com
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• Trickster Strategies: Leandro Ehrlich’s Thought-Provoking Survey Kept Viewers on Edge

  24-08-2017 15:08 via artnews.com
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• 'Bizarre' Scam Selling Fake Jackson Pollocks Uncovered

  24-08-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The International Foundation for Art Research has identified four forgeries that were alleged to have come from the estate of an American collector who apparently never existed. "This scam is not aimed at the super-rich in major art centers. It targets modest collectors and so far is unfolding in the Mountain States and along the East Coast."
  
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• Morning Links: 40-Foot Balloon Dog Edition

  24-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• M. T. Liggett, 86, Ornery Outsider Artist Who Made Roadside 'Whirligigs'

  24-08-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Mr. Liggett's idiosyncratic scrap-metal gallery - conceived, shaped and welded in his shop nearby - stood on farmland in tiny Mullinville [Kansas], where a stiff prairie wind kept the whirligigs spinning, lending kinetic energy to his hodgepodge of installations. His clownish, abstract, cartoonish and grotesque works reflected his bent for provocation."
  
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• Jazz Guitarist John Abercrombie Dead At 72

  24-08-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Abercrombie was a confident but unassuming artist, whose abundant gifts did not include the knack for self-promotion. He emerged in the immediate wake of electric-guitar trailblazers like Sonny Sharrock and John McLaughlin but, at least temperamentally, he belonged more to the generation a decade or so his junior: cheerful omnivores like Pat Metheny, John Scofield and Bill Frisell."
  
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• Finally, A Ballet Movie Whose Heroine Resembles Actual Ballerinas

  24-08-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "She has friends. She goes out. She has a sense of humor. What she's not? 'Totally depressed and anorexic,' said the filmmaker Valérie Müller, who, with her husband, the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, directed the film Polina."
  
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• Bought And Not Paid For: $24 Million Richter And $15 Million Bacon Caught In Tangle Of Lawsuits

  24-08-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the center of the mess is a 28-year-old Chinese businessman who allegedly bought the Bacon with borrowed money that was never repaid and refused to honor his guarantee for the Richter when it failed to sell at auction.
  
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• What Ever Happened To The Librettist Of 'Nixon In China' And 'The Death Of Klinghoffer'?

  24-08-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the wake of the fame (or notoriety) of those two founding works of the genre now called "CNN opera," composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars went on to the heights of the opera world. Yet librettist Alice Goodman didn't rise along with them; instead, she moved to Britain and became an Anglican priest. Thomas May catches up with her. (Notably, both Adams and Sellars, whose collaboration with Goodman ended in long-lasting acrimony, have very warm words for her here.)
  
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• A New 'Anna Karenina' Coming From Joffrey And Australian Ballet

  24-08-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The partnership will team the Russian composer Ilya Demutsky, who has been commissioned to compose a new score, with the Russian choreographer Yuri Possokhov. A former Bolshoi dancer, Possokhov currently is choreographer in residence at the San Francisco Ballet."
  
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• New talent, Tropicana and a peep hole: London Design Festival rolls into town

  24-08-2017 12:33
  The spotlight will be on recent graduates in a gallery show due to take place during London Design Festival, one of a number of projects taking place across the capitals commercial sector. The exhibition, titled The Graduate(s), opens at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Mayfair (4-23 September).
   
  The Paris-based design curator Lidewij Edelkoort, who describes herself as a trend forecaster, has made the selection, trawling through works made by graduates who studied at more than 50 instituti
  
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• Tattoos, gravediggers and traffic cones: the KLF take Liverpool

  24-08-2017 11:14
  Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty are staging a three-day series of events to mark their collaborative return after 23 years – and they’ve already formed a new band, Badger Kull, after day one“It’s not a book launch.” Bill Drummond’s first five words may come as no surprise to anyone who’s followed his and Jimmy Cauty’s inventively abstruse creative partnership since their 1987 appearance as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the band who’d later s
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.23.17

  24-08-2017 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Storm Brewing
  The fact that in many places more than the lion’s share of public arts funding goes to organizations focused on the cultural tradition of upper class European whites is a center that will not hold. ... read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2017-08-22Voyeurism At The Balenciaga Exhibition
  Summer has simply sped by and I haven’t even really gone on vacation yet (that’s coming up at the end of September). ... read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Ar
  
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• Tea, tulips and tenderness: my mother’s final days – in pictures

  24-08-2017 08:00
  Celine Marchbank captured her mother’s death in beautifully understated photos – from her half-drunk cups of tea to the tomatoes she would never see ripen Continue reading...
  
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• Executive Director, Sacramento Ballet

  24-08-2017 01:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sacramento Ballet invites applications for the position of Executive Director to help chart an exciting path forward for the Company.
  Position Opportunity
  Executive DirectorSacramento Ballet AssociationSacramento, CA
  Overview
  The Sacramento Ballet enters an exciting new phase of its 63-year existence as it transitions from the accomplished direction of Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda Cunningham to a new leader, Amy Seiwert, former Sacramento Ballet principal and former Artistic Director of her
  
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• Famous Poems Translated Into Emojis?

  24-08-2017 00:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Possible? Some are making the case that emojis are the new language. So Paris Review translates a few famous verses into emojis and asks you to guess at a translation.
  
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