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• ‘If Another Person Asks Me to Get Them a Jen Guidi I Think I Might Just Vomit in My Bed’: The Next Must-Have Market Darling Has Emerged

  21-09-2017 22:42 via artnews.com
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• Kerry James Marshall Has Created a Mural for Chicago Featuring Oprah Winfrey, Suzanne Ghez, and More

  21-09-2017 20:49 via artnews.com
  The 132-by-100-feet piece will be painted over the next month. Read More
  
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• Kerry James Marshall Has Created a Mural for Chicago Featuring Oprah Winfrey, Susanne Ghez, and More

  21-09-2017 20:49 via artnews.com
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• ‘Among other things, I’ve taken up smoking’ at TENT, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  21-09-2017 20:36 via artnews.com
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• David Shepherd obituary

  21-09-2017 19:42
  Artist whose popular wildlife paintings helped raise millions for conservationFresh out of school, with no scholastic achievements to recommend him, David Shepherd applied for a place at the Slade School of Art in London. The Slade did him the biggest favour of his life by telling him that he had no talent for art. Instead, Shepherd, the artist and conservationist, who has died aged 86, took to painting meticulous pictures of railway engines, aircraft and – the real breakthrough – wi
  
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• Movie Musicals Came Into Their Own In The 1950s. But Fred Astaire Was On The Outside Looking In

  21-09-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Astaire’s fate in the early fifties was something one suspects he’d never accounted for: his age was beginning to show. Of course, this was a time when elderly men still courted young women on-screen with stunning regularity, and had Astaire been a normal romantic lead, this might not have been a problem. But he was a dancer.
  
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• ‘Et Tu, Art Brute?’—a Project in Andrew Edlin Gallery’s Basement—Issues Open Call to Any and All

  21-09-2017 19:31 via artnews.com
  A show of art that fits in in 16-by-20-inch envelopes will open at Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York this fall. Read More
  
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• ‘Et Tu, Art Brute?’—a Project in Andrew EdIin Gallery’s Basement—Issues Open Call to Any and All

  21-09-2017 19:31 via artnews.com
  A show of art that fits in fits in 16-by-20-inch envelopes will open at Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York this fall. Read More
  
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• What Can We Learn From The Progress Of Civilization?

  21-09-2017 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The news here is that the lives of most of our progenitors were better than we think. We’re flattering ourselves by believing that their existence was so grim and that our modern, civilized one is, by comparison, so great. Still, we are where we are, and we live the way we live, and it’s possible to wonder whether any of this illuminating knowledge about our hunter-gatherer ancestors can be useful to us."
  
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• Why Bellini's Norma Is The 'Mount Everest' Of Opera Roles

  21-09-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As Renata Scotto once said, "You want to climb the mountain. You know you are supposed to climb the mountain. But it is so difficult." What makes it so difficult? James Jorden gives a thorough breakdown of the part's challenges, musical and dramatic, with audio and video examples.
  
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• Tate Modern to host its first ever solo Picasso exhibition

  21-09-2017 17:37
  Show focusing on one year - 1932 - will bring together three paintings of reclining nudes based on artist’s lover Marie-Thérèse Walter Three reclining nudes, inspired by one of Picasso’s most famous lovers, Marie-Thérèse Walter, are to be reunited for the first time in 85 years in an exhibition at Tate Modern. The three paintings, which were described by Tate Modern director Frances Morris as “sensual, seductive and beautiful”, will be the cent
  
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• Tate Modern to host its first ever Picasso exhibition

  21-09-2017 17:37
  Show focusing on one year - 1932 - will bring together three paintings of reclining nudes based on artist’s lover Marie-Thérèse Walter Three reclining nudes, inspired by one of Picasso’s most famous lovers, Marie-Thérèse Walter, are to be reunited for the first time in 85 years in an exhibition at Tate Modern. The three paintings, which were described by Tate Modern director Frances Morris as “sensual, seductive and beautiful”, will be the cent
  
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• Cincinnati Enquirer Lays Off Last Of Its Arts Critics

  21-09-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Classical music writer Janelle Gelfand was the last of the Enquirer's arts writers to go. At its peak, the Enquirer had a theater, art, movie, food, classical, pop, and books critics, each with their own beats. The move comes only weeks before the city's Music Hall was to reopen after a major makeover. Gelfand was leading coverage of the reopening.
  
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• Jeff Bridges Is Fine With Being The Dude Forever

  21-09-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It's been nearly two decades since The Big Lebowski, a tale about an emphatically nonchalant man named Jeffrey 'the Dude' Lebowski who gets forced over the precipice of chalance, transformed Jeff 'the actor' Bridges into an unwitting pop cult leader. ... Jeff Bridges isn't turned off by this, as some already famous actors might be - by the fanatical, undying popularity of a weird thing he did once, back in 1998, that no one has ever forgotten, that people quote at him ad nauseam. He's too imper
  
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• Why The New York Times Will Recommend A Play With A Dirty Word In The Title But Won't Print That Title

  21-09-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Ben Brantley reviewed a revival of Suzan-Lori Parks's Fucking A (a take on The Scarlet Letter), he wrote, "since I am not a character in this work but an employee of The New York Times, I shall be referring to this play only as 'A.' (The full title places an Anglo-Saxon adjective before the 'A,' one commonly used on cable television but not considered fit for print here.)" Commenters were not impressed: "Given the rather grisly subject matter, I'm wondering if the people who might attend th
  
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• The Incredible New Theater At Chicago's Navy Pier

  21-09-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The public won't get in to Chicago Shakespeare's $35 million, 33,000-square-foot one-of-a-kind new space until Sept. 19, when James Thierree's The Toad Knew opens. But you don't have to wait to see the Yard - a theater where the seats can literally float in midair and the stage can morph into just about any shape imaginable. Crain's has obtained exclusive images of the Yard's interior, designed by Chicago's Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture and the UK's Charcoalblue."
  
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• Poor Art | Arte Povera review – the show that proves Britain's on the blink

  21-09-2017 16:01
  Estorick Collection, LondonWhat can we learn from these British responses to arte povera, the subversive Italian movement from the 1960s? That it’ll take more than fur sculpture and a daisy cross to outclass the EuropeansThe bilingual title of this exhibition is more than a little unfortunate. The term arte povera, the 1960s Italian movement so christened by the critic Germano Celant, translates as “poor art”. And, as it happens, most of the British imitations of arte povera at
  
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• 'Mother!' - What Does It Mean? Its Director And Stars Explain Hollywood's Weirdest Movie In Years

  21-09-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Melena Ryzik talks to Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, and Darren Aronofsky. And no, they don't agree on what the film means, or even necessarily what it's about.
  
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• 'Mother!' - Darren Aronofsky Tells How He Made This Strange Film (And Got Hollywood To Let Him Do It)

  21-09-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Say what you will about Darren Aronofsky, but the guy knows how to get a reaction out of people. ... We caught up with Aronofsky a few months before the film's premiere, while its contents were still top secret, to talk about its allegorical meaning, its startlingly unusual use of Kristen Wiig, and the surprising difficulty of its postproduction process." (Warning: spoilers included.)
  
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• Lillian Ross, Legendary New Yorker Reporter, Dead At 99

  21-09-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[Her] innovative journalism appeared in the New Yorker magazine for eight consecutive decades, and whose profiles and articles were considered forebears of both the nonfiction novel and unsparing modern celebrity profile."
  
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• Morning Links: Aesthetics of Paperweights Edition

  21-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• How Mexico City's Art World Is Doing After The Earthquake

  21-09-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "ARTnews has reached out to various museums, galleries, and arts organizations to better understand how they fared. This post is being continuously updated with details about how the earthquake has impacted the Mexican art world."
  
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• 'We Got Ridiculously Lucky': Florida Theatres Clean Up After Hurricane Irma

  21-09-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "While some theatres could not be contacted because phone and power service still were absent Tuesday, managers at some of the most seriously affected theatres considered themselves blessed that they avoided the severity of damage suffered by Houston's Alley Theatre. Forecasters predicted much, much worse, especially in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach area, which was hammered but escaped with minimal damage."
  
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• Does Philly Need Yet Another Performing Arts Venue? Actually, It Can Use This One

  21-09-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has started work on a 277-seat hall that, in addition to being a venue for PAFA's own activities, will host concerts, lectures, and other events by PAFA's partner arts groups ... and will be offered as a rental space to others seeking a small state-of-the-art venue." Peter Dobrin talks to people with several organizations who believe that there's an empty niche for a hall that size.
  
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• 'Africa's Tate Modern' – Cape Town’s Zeitz-Mocaa gallery opens

  21-09-2017 14:04
  The largest contemporary art museum in Africa opens on Friday as a ‘platform for Africans to tell their own story’A week before its public opening, the social spectacle surrounding the preview of Cape Town’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz-Mocaa) threatened to eclipse the art on display. There was a soiree hosted by Gucci. Hanging above the makeshift dancefloor was a giant rubber flying dragon by South African artist Nicholas Hlobo. In one of the museum’s w
  
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• World's First Major Museum For Street Art Opens In Berlin

  21-09-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There are certainly questions about whether the museum" - called Urban Nation - "marks the institutionalisation of an art movement valued for its anarchic spirit, where works are mainly painted at the dead of night, dodging the prying eyes of police and angry landlords. All the works in the museum's opening show were created specifically for the gallery space, with some sculptures but mainly canvases."
  
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• For All The Chaos In Venezuela, Its Cinema Is Thriving (For Now)

  21-09-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "La Soledad is the latest in a glut of Venezuelan films telling unflinching, complex stories of life in the troubled Andean nation. It might seem surprising, given the increasingly authoritarian regime of Nicolás Maduro, that these films have often benefitted from state funding. ... A major reconfiguration came in 2005 with a reform to the country's national cinematography law. This dictated quotas for the proportion of Venezuelan films in theatres, initiated a tax on cinemas and distribu
  
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• 'The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!' Breaks Attendance Record

  21-09-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The show of work by Grayson Perry with that hyperbolic title was, by average daily visitors, the busiest show that London's Serpentine Galleries have ever held, according to Serpentine management. (Reporter Gareth Harris cites a show from last summer that had higher numbers; a Serpentine spokeswoman gives reasons why that one doesn't count.)
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.20.17

  21-09-2017 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  What Museum Visitors Want to Know
  Museums are mysterious to many people outside the art world (and maybe to people in the art world, I don’t know!). That’s why I highlighted Ask A Curator Day here last week, and why I ... read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-09-20Recent Listening In Brief: 3 Trumpets Redux
  Dick Titterington, The 3 Trumpet Band Live at The 1905 (Heavywood) ... read more
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-09-20Jazz community upends En
  
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• Love it, hate it - or just don't get it: share your pictures of public art

  21-09-2017 08:09
  Send us pictures of the local sculptures and artworks that have inspired civic pride, raised eyebrows and provoked lively debate in the pubRelated: Rachel Whiteread: Turner prize winner criticises 'plop art' Turner prize winner Rachel Whiteread is not a fan of ‘plop art’: public sculptures plonked somewhere in an apparently random and inconspicuous fashion.Continue reading...
  
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• Indomitable Pioneering Artist John Killacky Announces Retirement From Vermont's Flynn Center

  21-09-2017 00:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Flynn’s statement cited Killacky’s emphasis on access and inclusion, as the arts center now works with 75 social-service agencies to provide discounted tickets for their clients. The organization provides $30,000 in scholarships toward participation in the Flynn’s classes and camps. Killacky also led a three-year, $2.3-million renovation campaign for the Flynn that received contributions from 274 sources.
  
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• One Thing Futurists Don't Challenge In Projecting The Future (And Maybe They Should?)

  21-09-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No matter how radical these predictions are, they tend to take the long-term durability of capitalism utterly for granted: Responding to decades of stagnating wages and sliding labor force participation, the Institute for the Future’s report “10 Strategies for a Workable Future” (which is in many ways quite sharp and informative) acknowledges deep problems with our current labor ecosystem and digs into important issues of benefits, collective bargaining, and education. But it d
  
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