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• Spring/Break Art Show Announces New Theme: ‘Stranger Comes to Town’

  25-09-2017 23:54 via artnews.com
  The eccentric fair will take up in New York during Armory Week 2018. Read More
  
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• How Big Is Too Big? Dublin Fringe's Existential Crisis

  25-09-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival felt bigger, it may have been because it was more complicated to navigate. The event covered more ground than before, including venues spread so widely through the city that the map in the festival brochure seemed to give up. But the shows themselves made it harder to get your bearings.
  
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• Why Have We Romanticized The Art Thief?

  25-09-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When one thinks of art crime, a Hollywood image is conjured: one of black-clad cat burglars, thieves in top hats and white gloves, and perhaps the occasional criminal collector twirling his waxed moustache as he cackles maniacally over a stolen horde in his Bavarian castle. But the truth behind art crime, a truth that is misunderstood by the general public and professionals alike, is far more sinister, and more intriguing.
  
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• Our Music Might Have Become Post-Genre. But Listeners?

  25-09-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Post-genre thinking seeks to move away from objective methods of characterizing music, instead focusing on a more subjective method within which music is viewed piece by piece with an emphasis on the intention and background of the composer. If a composer has no intent of writing within the “classical” genre label, then attempting to understand the piece through a classical lens is irrelevant. But what about the listener? There is no doubt that all listeners have pre-existing connota
  
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• US Interior Secretary Mounts Attack On Antiquities Act

  25-09-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In his recommendations, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke isn't simply calling on Trump to unilaterally shrink national monuments and weaken protections on hundreds of thousands of acres of public land. He is also exhorting the president to team up with Congress to undermine the Antiquities Act itself. And, indeed, a legislative assault on the law is already underway.
  
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• ‘Screaming in the Streets: AIDS, Art, Activism’ at ClampArt, New York

  25-09-2017 21:59 via artnews.com
  See images from one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Data Overload Is Messing With Our Mental Health

  25-09-2017 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, algorithms are getting better all the time and related content is getting more relevant. What does that mean? More wasted time on Facebook. That “quick look at a notification” turns into five minutes watching the “greatest premier league goals from the 1990’s.” Fun? Yes. Life-improving? Not so much.
  
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• Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo to Open Foundation in Madrid

  25-09-2017 21:03 via artnews.com
  A new museum designed by David Adjaye is planned for 2019. Read More
  
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• Scientists X-rayed Degas's Sculptures To See How He Constructed Dancers

  25-09-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The use of ordinary shop-bought armatures, wine bottle cork and old floorboards, confirm Degas to have been a highly unorthodox sculptor who used unconventional working practices, in terms of materials and technique, which resulted in the frequent loss of his wax sculpture."
  
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• New York Foundation for the Arts Expands Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program to Four Cities Across the U.S.

  25-09-2017 20:39 via artnews.com
  New locations will include Newark, Detroit, San Antonio, Oakland.Read More
  
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• The Turner Prize Once Celebrated Shock. Now It's Become Diverse

  25-09-2017 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the past, the Turner Prize has been famed for works like Damien Hirst, with his cow in formaldehyde, Tracey Emin's unmade bed, and Martin Creed's The Lights Going On and Off. Only artists under 50 have been eligible before - but this year, Anderson, 52, and Himid, 63, have taken their places in the nominees' exhibition after the age restriction was lifted. They are the bookies' favourites to win.
  
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• Do Leadership Departures At Top Magazines Signal A Crisis In The Industry?

  25-09-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Magazines have sputtered for years, their monopoly on readers and advertising erased by Facebook, Google and more nimble online competitors. But editors and executives said the abrupt churn in the senior leadership ranks signaled that the romance of the business was now yielding to financial realities.
  
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• ‘Depictions of Animal Cruelty Are Not Art’: Chinese Contemporary Art Survey at Guggenheim Museum Faces Pushback from Animal Rights Groups

  25-09-2017 19:35 via artnews.com
  The American Kennel Club is the latest organization to call for the removal of a Peng Yu and Sun Yuan video featuring dogs on treadmills. Read More
  
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• Why Orchestras Play Behind The Beat

  25-09-2017 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Here’s the simple response: When an orchestra plays behind the conductor, it has the room to produce a more expressive sound. “It works so well because the musicians can take in a great deal more information before they play,” said Falletta. Waiting a tick allows the ensemble to take in the trajectory, speed and style of a conductor’s beat, which helps them determine what kind of sound the conductor is hoping to achieve. “It gives them a chance to prepare that sound
  
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• Turner prize 2017 exhibition review: a snake-infested garden and fat cats on horseback

  25-09-2017 19:22
  Satirical crockery, haircut pinups and jaunty potatoes jostle for the attention, along with pages from the Guardian. But Rosalind Nashashibi should win for her mesmerising films about everyday life in Gaza – and a mother and daughter’s overgrown Guatemalan homeOpening at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, the 2017 Turner prize is an uneven and at times frustrating exhibition. Relaxing the upper age limit for nominated artists is a good thing. Some artists don’t hit their stride un
  
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• Yves Saint Laurent Museums to Open in Paris and Marrakech This Fall

  25-09-2017 19:18 via artnews.com
  The museums will be home to garments, sketches, and ephemera related to the late fashion designer. Read More
  
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• The Perils Of Collecting Art That Deteriorates And Goes Away

  25-09-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some collectors have responded to the resulting existential malaise by deliberately collecting art that is difficult to live with, refusing the notion of art-as-investment and embracing work that is not easy on any level, art that until recently would only have found a home in a well-financed institution that had the resources to maintain it. These are works that are difficult not merely in a conceptual sense but in reality as well, works that require as much time and energy as they do money, wo
  
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• Audio Book Sales Are Soaring. And Publishers Are Calming Down About It

  25-09-2017 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The good news for publishers, looking forward, is that much of the audience for digital is young. Almost half of those who say they listen to audiobooks were under 35. And it’s a hungry audience. While only 24 percent of Americans say they listened to at least one audio book in 2016, the average listener in that category consumed 15 books in that same period, mostly on a smartphone. You have to figure that the average reader of physical books did not buy 15 books last year, much less read
  
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• What Happens on Tour Stays on Tour: At an Exhausting Documenta, an Underwhelming Venice Biennale, an Enthralling Skupture Projekte

  25-09-2017 18:20 via artnews.com
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• What Happens on Tour Stays on Tour: At an Exhausting Documenta, an Underwhelming Venice Biennale, an Enthralling Skuptur Projekte

  25-09-2017 18:20 via artnews.com
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• A Botched Book Review Prompts Consternation At (And About) The NY Times

  25-09-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Many journalists and media observers have sympathized with Grigoriadis, who appears to have suffered an authors’ worst nightmare—she spent years writing a book only to sustain an unfair skewering at the hands of a reviewer who didn’t appear to fully comprehend the work. But the review of Blurred Lines has itself set off a drama within the halls of the Times, where the hand-wringing this week has been considerable, sources there told me. “It’s being talked about a wh
  
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• Turner prize's diverse shortlist 'makes a powerful political statement'

  25-09-2017 17:32
  This year’s artists have all taken on political issues, after accusations that the prize was failing to engage with the current climateThis year’s Turner prize makes a powerful political statement with a shortlist of artists who champion the diversity of the British art scene, the director of Tate Britain has said.Alex Farquharson, the chair of the Turner prize judging panel, said that the diverse, cross-cultural shortlist, “the most international to date”, sends an impor
  
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• Studies: People Rate Computer-Generated Art Less Appealing

  25-09-2017 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Images that were categorized as computer-generated were rated as visually less pleasing," the researchers report in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. This held true whether participants appraised their quality before or after classifying its likely genesis. (They were pretty bad at guessing: The mean accuracy rate was only 52.5 percent.)
  
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• Nicola Trezzi Named Director and Chief Curator of Center of Contemporary Art Tel Aviv

  25-09-2017 17:08 via artnews.com
  He will assume his new post in early 2018. Read More
  
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• A Harrowing Play That Gets New Life Thanks To The Administration's Anti-Immigrant Policies

  25-09-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sure, Alex Alpharoah's play about coming to the U.S. as a baby in his then-15-year-old mother's arms was powerful, and sure, it sold fine during its six-week run at Ensemble Studio Theatre. But its name - Wet: A DACAmented Journey indicates what had everyone from politicians like Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) to the ACLU and the Human Rights Watch showing up, and what has the theatre planning for another run: It's about DACA, the "Dreamers" program that the president kept saying he would end.
  
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• Communicating the Museum Los Angeles, 6-9 Nov

  25-09-2017 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  300 culture professionals from 30+ countries will focus on the theme "Museums Beyond Walls".Across a four-day program of debates, workshops, talks and tours, discover the best outreach initiatives, the most challenging collaborations, and the most insightful successes in the field.Link:
  
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• Morning Links: Difficult Art Edition

  25-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• Former Met boss Thomas Campbell: 'I was passionate about the museum and its mission'

  25-09-2017 15:00
  ‘Tapestry Tom’ was seen as an odd choice when he took over at the Met, and his modernizing mission caused division and dissent. Now, seven months after resigning, he explains why he feels vindicatedIn February this year, the New York art world was abuzz with the sound of scandal. Talk was only of one thing: a New York Times front page which had posed the provocative question ‘Is the Met a great institution in decline?’. The allegations against the museum were wide-ranging
  
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• Frieze Names Loring Randolph Artistic Director for Americas

  25-09-2017 14:30 via artnews.com
  Frieze Art Fairs has named Loring Randolph, a longtime director at New York’s Casey Kaplan gallery, its new artistic director of the Americas, the fair announced. Randolph, who begins in the new role in mid-October, shared the news with the … Read More
  
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• Frieze Art Fairs Names Loring Randolph Artistic Director for Americas

  25-09-2017 14:30 via artnews.com
  She joins the enterprise after 11 years at Casey Kaplan gallery. Read More
  
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