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• Monique Prieto at Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles

  11-09-2017 22:42 via artnews.com
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• Arts and oil firms should not mix | Letters

  11-09-2017 20:41
  We need art and our cultural institutions to expose injustice, promote debate and create change in society, says Dr Chris Garrard Jonathan Jones is wrong to say: “It is not true that you can cut off a source of money to museums without harming art” (Is it time for the arts to start saying no to oil money?, theguardian.com, 8 September). When that money comes from an unethical oil company such as BP, we have already harmed that art by putting our values up for sale. And that is w
  
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• Hirshhorn Acquires Ragnar Kjartansson’s ‘Me and My Mother,’ Work by Shirin Neshat, Deb Sokolow

  11-09-2017 20:34 via artnews.com
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• Zola Jesus on Artists From Different Disciplines Who Inspired Her New Album, ‘Okovi’

  11-09-2017 20:31 via artnews.com
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• Rachel Whiteread exhibition review – the secret life of things

  11-09-2017 19:45
  Tate Britain, London
  Sinks, baths, stairs, hot-water bottles, beehives and the space beneath chairs … a walk through Rachel Whiteread’s casts is a journey into a common landscape made strange What’s under the bed and in the wardrobe? Who’s on the stair and what’s going on in the shed? Rachel Whiteread’s sculpture is both deadpan and affecting. It can be modest in scale and homely, grand and austere, mischievous, menacing. Her art is filled with safe spaces an
  
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• Here’s the 2017 Independent Art Book Fair Exhibitor List

  11-09-2017 19:10 via artnews.com
  The Independent Art Book Fair has revealed the lineup of exhibitors for its second annual edition, which takes place between September 22 and 24 at the Greenpoint Terminal Warehouse in Brooklyn.The fair is free and open to the public from … Read More
  
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• MSU Broad Receives $1 M. Grant for Expansion

  11-09-2017 18:29 via artnews.com
  The museum is planning to open a space across the street from its Zaha Hadid–designed home. Read More
  
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• Does theatre Need Its Own Rotten Tomatoes?

  11-09-2017 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The bottom line is that, in theatre, as in movies and restaurants, aggregation is just a new way of looking at opinions. Yes, it’s all reductive – even the opinions can be as well, in relation to work they assess – but instead of getting aggravated with these sites, theatre producers should just focus on creating great work, as I believe most do, instead of trying to kill the messenger, as their Hollywood brethren wish they could."
  
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• What Explains Hollywood's Summer Swoon? Structural Decline! (Sound Familiar?)

  11-09-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "To explain the bad news, movie executives are trying out fresh excuses (blame … Rotten Tomatoes?), while journalists are rehashing familiar criticisms (people are bored with sequels!). Both of these explanations are wrong. The subtler truth is that the domestic movie market is in a slow, decades-long structural decline."
  
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• Natural Selection review – a risky celebration of the dastardly life of birds

  11-09-2017 17:59
  Former Newington Library, London
  Police chases, undercover detectives, secret societies: this bird-themed installation, by artist Andy Holden and his ornithologist father Peter, is full of rough-edged surprisesIt sounds just charming: a long look at all the feathered friends flitting around our back gardens. Yet the cosy material in Natural Selection, an exhibition by father and son duo Andy and Peter Holden, turns out to have more drama than Hitchcock’s The Birds, rife with dastardly tale
  
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• What Amazon's Wish List For A New HQ City Tells Us Much About The Future Of Cities

  11-09-2017 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Amazon’s selection criteria, as described in the company’s request for proposal, sets out a compelling list of the attributes cities must have if they aspire to be a serious part of the America’s growing digital economy.
  
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• Rachel Whiteread: Turner prize winner criticises 'plop art'

  11-09-2017 17:22
  British artist about to get major retrospective at Tate Britain says public art is often ill-conceived and works should suit locationsToo many public sculptures are examples of “plop art” – works dropped into an apparently random site and hardly noticed – according to artist Rachel Whiteread.The Turner prize winner has been responsible for a number of public works around the world, including a cast of the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square and the Holocaust monument in Vie
  
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• Canada's Complicated Reconciliation With Its Past

  11-09-2017 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I wonder if English Canada has the strength to face the truth in the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report: that the evil inflicted on the indigenous populations of this country was not done by our worst people but by our best. The colonists believed that hope for the indigenous population meant stripping them of their language and culture and imbuing them with a spirit of thrift—they were trying to prepare them for the future, for progress. And the only future and the only prog
  
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• Report: School UK Arts Education In Peril

  11-09-2017 16:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Research by Norwich University of the Arts (NUA) suggests the exclusion of the arts from the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) schools’ performance measure is leading to lower pupil attainment, less funding and teacher recruitment challenges.
  
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• Why Science Won't Ever Squash Religion

  11-09-2017 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not only has secularism failed to continue its steady global march but countries as varied as Iran, India, Israel, Algeria and Turkey have either had their secular governments replaced by religious ones, or have seen the rise of influential religious nationalist movements. Secularisation, as predicted by the social sciences, has failed.
  
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• Stephen King Movie Opens With Biggest Box Office Ever For A Horror Movie

  11-09-2017 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Warner Bros. and New Line’s adaptation of the Stephen King book is launching to $179 million worldwide, including a record-breaking $117 million North American debut. The movie is taking in an impressive $62 million from 46 territories abroad.
  
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• Poets Once Had Patrons. Institutions Replaced Them. It Hasn't Gone Well

  11-09-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In place of the vanished aristocratic patrons came a set of interlinked bureaucratic institutions: the federal government, philanthropic foundations, and universities. All three served a similar role of protecting modernism and modernists from an unregulated free market that was assumed to be uninterested in, if not actively hostile to, the survival of the arts, and poetry in particular."
  
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• Morning Links: Hurricane Irma Edition

  11-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  The StormHurricane Irma is making its way up Florida, shutting down electrical power and cell phone service throughout the state. [The New York Times]In Key West, employees of the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum have hunkered down with the writer’s … Read More
  
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• What Happened To Public Intellectuals?

  11-09-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are plenty of reasons to commit as citizens to political parties or movements — and there may even be reasons to consider that commitment as partly the product of philosophical reasoning. But someone who speaks as a representative of a fixed ideology or group has subjugated the philosopher within themselves to the partisan.
  
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• Abrupt Departure Of Art Gallery Of Ontario's Top Curator Signals A Crossroads

  11-09-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Andrew Hunter’s mission was to make the AGO relevant to the world outside its doors in a deep and real way. For maybe the first time in its history, it is. The gallery’s task now, with two key positions now vacant — Hunter’s, and the role of chief curator — is to decide whether to maintain course, or chart a new direction. It does the latter at its peril.
  
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• Attributing Authorship Of Architecture Is Problematic. Take Iconic LA Artist Gin Wong, For Instance...

  11-09-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In architecture, that conversation has remained stunted. Who designed the Capitol Records building in Hollywood, Welton Becket or Louis Naidorf? Just how much was the architecture of L.A. firm Morphosis affected when co-founder Michael Rotondi departed in 1991, leaving Thom Mayne without the humanizing balance his partner tended to provide? Did Renzo Piano’s designs lose some elegance when the brilliant structural engineer Peter Rice, a longtime collaborator, died in 1992? Did Frank Gehry
  
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• Museum of miners' art to open as part of Bishop Auckland culture drive

  11-09-2017 14:12
  Collection of more than 400 works will be permanently displayed in former bank building, and other museums also plannedA unique collection of paintings by Durham miners, many made by men who spent their working lives underground and their nights painting on kitchen tables, in attics or garden sheds, will go on display in the first museum in the UK dedicated to such art.The museum is being created in a former bank building on the marketplace in Bishop Auckland. It includes works by Norman Cornish
  
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• The Differences Between Amateurs And Professionals

  11-09-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Amateurs believe that the world should work the way they want it to. Professionals realize that they have to work with the world as they find it. Amateurs are scared — scared to be vulnerable and honest with themselves. Professionals feel like they are capable of handling almost anything.
  
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• TV Ratings - We Have To Get Off Of Just Measuring The Linear (Live) Audience

  11-09-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I don’t think the broadcasting narrative should be linear versus digital anymore, but rather linear plus digital,” NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt said during a panel. “I would love to get to a point where the live, same-day rating was the proverbial dinosaur instead of the broadcast network.” Executives from New York-based Nielsen, who appeared Friday at the press tour, acknowledged as much. They said they have answered the call by networks and ad agenci
  
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• Artists' Break With This White House

  11-09-2017 13:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the face of concerns like North Korea and neo-Nazis, Mr Trump’s rift with the art world seems insignificant. But it is another indicator of the tenor of his presidency and how drastically it breaks with previous administrations of both parties. Indeed, artists have usually attended White House receptions even when they disagreed with the sitting president. Bill Clinton honoured Charlton Heston, a staunch conservative. George W. Bush hosted Barbra Streisand, an ardent Democrat.
  
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• Fundamentally, Are Plays About The Words?

  11-09-2017 00:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "All acts of translation are re-interpretations — adaptations even more so — and this can provide the excuse that anything therefore goes. But while questions of taste can be submitted to no ultimate arbitration, there are transgressions which are not matters of taste at all. In particular, the introduction or exaggeration of erotic content is an opportunity which many cannot resist."
  
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