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• Words, Words, Words. We All Use Them. So We're All Experts In Poetry

  20-09-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  In his new book, “Why Poetry,”Matthew Zapruder makes the bold assertion that understanding poetry requires “forgetting many incorrect things we have learned in school” and accepting “what is right before us on the page.” Any reader can do that, he says, because “we are all experts in words; we have been for a long time. And any word we don’t know we can look up.”
  
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• Jordan Casteel at Casey Kaplan, New York

  20-09-2017 23:25 via artnews.com
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• Whitney Museum Has Plans For A Major Hudson River Project

  20-09-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Hammons’s Gansevoort installation is expected to feature a ghostlike image of the original Pier 52 building on that site, according to those who have been briefed on the project — an open minimalist framework of what had originally been there, like a pencil line drawing in space. The project would rest on 12 pilings — five of them on the peninsula, with a sixth out at the end of it and another six in the water to the south.
  
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• Judge Rules Seuss-Derived Play Doesn't Violate Copyright

  20-09-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The dispute began in 2016, when Mr. Lombardo, a playwright, was preparing to stage “Who’s Holiday!” — a 75-minute, one-woman play that features Cindy Lou Who, the adorable girl from the book who teaches the greedy Grinch the true meaning of Christmas. In Mr. Lombardo’s version, Cindy Lou Who is all grown up. She is now a hard-drinking, prescription-drug-abusing middle-aged woman who lives in a trailer park and served time in prison for killing her husband,
  
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• Bathroom as Site: A Brief, Incomplete History of Lavatorial Exhibitions

  20-09-2017 22:20 via artnews.com
  The past few years have seen artists tackle restrooms with aplomb. Read More
  
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• Disney's 'Moana' Is Giving A Lift To New Zealand's Indigenous Language

  20-09-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "About 125,000 of New Zealand's 4.7 million people speak the Maori language ... There are concerns that numbers are declining, putting it at risk of dying out. But with one in three Maori people in New Zealand younger than 15, experts said the chance for youth to see a wildly popular movie in their own words" - Disney planned from the beginning to translate Moana, based on traditional Polynesian stories, into Maori - "could turn the language's fortunes around after more official efforts faltered
  
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• Museum of Modern Art Announces Artist List for 2018 Edition of ‘New Photography’

  20-09-2017 21:52 via artnews.com
  The show, featuring 17 artists, opens next spring. Read More
  
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• V&A And Royal Opera House Team Up For Exhibition Tracing Intersections Of Cities And Opera

  20-09-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What we were looking for were moments when you could see the intersection between the opera and the city, and a thread that went right around Europe. We weren’t looking at the whole history of opera. We started from the time it became a public entertainment.”
  
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• There Are Thousands Of Different Colors - Why Do Most Of Us Have So Few Words For Them (And Some Languages Fewer Than Others)?

  20-09-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In an industrialized culture, most people get by with 11 color words: black, white, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, orange, pink, purple and gray. That's what we have in American English. Maybe if you're an artist or an interior designer, you know specific meanings for as many as 50 or 100 different words for colors - like turquoise, amber, indigo or taupe. But this is still a tiny fraction of the colors that we can distinguish. ... [And] nonindustrialized cultures typically have far fewer wor
  
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• Canada's Copyright Crisis

  20-09-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In quite a short time, copyright has come to be seen by many outside our industry as an inhibitor to creativity and innovation instead of the enabler and protector it once was. It’s true to say that the consequent disruption to our industry has been felt more intensely in some countries than others.  Canada stands out in this regard."
  
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• How 'Anglo-Saxon' Became The Term For So Many Of France's Bêtes Noires

  20-09-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Le monde anglo-saxon. Le modèle anglo-saxon. Le capitalisme anglo-saxon. L'hégémonie anglo-saxonne. You hear and read the term more and more in France these days, almost always for something opposed to the way the French do things and usually for something undesirable or worse. Yet before the mid-19th century, "anglo-saxon" was used in France only to refer to pre-Norman Conquest England. Emile Chabal lays out how the word went from historical designation to disparaging epith
  
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• Artist unveils design for Parliament Square suffragist statue

  20-09-2017 16:15
  Gillian Wearing, first female artist to create statue for London square, granted planning approval for tribute to Millicent FawcettThe first female artist to create a statue for Parliament Square in central London has unveiled the final design. Related: Millicent Fawcett was a heroine deserving of a statue | LettersRelated: Rare suffragette banner hidden in charity shop for 10 yearsContinue reading...
  
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• Carnegie International Details 2018 Edition, Announces First Participants

  20-09-2017 16:00 via artnews.com
  The 57th edition of the show opens in Pittsburgh in October 2018. Read More
  
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• The Broad Adds Four to Its Board of Directors, Including Thomas Campbell

  20-09-2017 15:20 via artnews.com
  Sherry Lansing, Joanne Heyeler, and Deborah Kanter have also joined. Read More
  
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• Following Destructive Earthquake, Mexico City Art World Assesses Damage

  20-09-2017 15:02 via artnews.com
  The quake began 100 miles from the Mexican capital on Tuesday. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Mondrian Edition

  20-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for the 2017 Untitled Miami Beach Art Fair

  20-09-2017 14:30 via artnews.com
  The fair opens on the ocean front on December 6. Read More
  
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• Michael Jackson's impact on art explored in London show

  20-09-2017 12:06
  Late singer will be subject of exhibition at National Portrait Gallery next year looking at ‘untold story’ of his influence on artMichael Jackson is to be the subject of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery looking at the late singer’s influence on art.Almost 10 years after his death, the London gallery said the way he inspired contemporary artists was “an untold story”. Continue reading...
  
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• Artist unveils design of Parliament Square suffragette statue

  20-09-2017 09:28
  Gillian Wearing, first female artist to create statue for London square, granted planning approval for tribute to Millicent FawcettThe first female artist to create a statue for Parliament Square in central London has unveiled the final design. Related: Millicent Fawcett was a heroine deserving of a statue | LettersRelated: Rare suffragette banner hidden in charity shop for 10 yearsContinue reading...
  
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• Street art goes home: museum of graffiti opens in Berlin

  20-09-2017 09:00
  Urban Nation, which will champion the movement and archive its works, opens with pieces by Banksy and Blek le RatFor some it is the largest and most democratic art movement the world has ever seen, for others it is unwanted visual pollution. But street art now has a permanent claim on the art world: an entire museum dedicated to the genre. Urban Nation in Berlin is the world’s first major institution built to champion and archive street art and graffiti, which fully emerged in New York in
  
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• Ghosts of partition: a musical odyssey about the desperate train journeys that divided India

  20-09-2017 08:00
  Railways played a crucial role in partition, as Hindus and Muslims took crammed, dangerous and often deadly journeys to their new homes. Those momentous days have now been turned into a devastating show by experimental musiciansIn 1988, having turned classical music on its head with his radical minimalism, Steve Reich unveiled what remains one of his most recognisable and admired works. With its three movements of chopping strings, air raid-like drones and repeated snatches of speech, Different
  
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• Documenta 14 Reports Record Attendance [Updated]

  20-09-2017 00:07 via artnews.com
  A total of 891,500 visited the show in Kassel. Read More
  
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• Documenta 14 in Kassel Reports 891,500 Visitors, a Record for the Historic Show

  20-09-2017 00:07 via artnews.com
  The exhibition also recorded more than 300,000 visits in Athens. Read More
  
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