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• From Graham to the Skywhale: the unsettling mutations of Patricia Piccinini

  06-10-2017 23:36
  A visit to the Australian artist’s studio is a trip to an otherworldly world. But try to avoid the ‘hair room’Walking through Patricia Piccinini’s Melbourne studio is more like wandering through a cabinet of monstrous curiosities than visiting an artist’s workspace.Observed within: a beast nursing a human child at her breast. Miniature anatomical models. Organic forms mouthing soundless words from the walls. Boxes and boxes of feathers. The severed head of a mannequ
  
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• It's Official: Print Loses Its Glamour

  06-10-2017 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  UK Glamour magazine is going "digital first", stopping its monthly editions and instead producing a "collectible, glossy" issue twice a year. A spokeswoman told the BBC the "mobile-first, social-first" move with a focus on beauty was based on how readers are "living their life today".
  
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• Why Science Fiction Has Become Streaming's Fast Food Fare

  06-10-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Familiar intellectual property has two advantages for a TV network. First, it’s already vetted. An editor with experience in science fiction has already made the sign of the IDIC over it and fired it out of a photon torpedo tube. Its characters, its world, and at least the skeleton of its plot live in the fictional universe.
  
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• How Civically-Engaged Arts Organizations Are Different From The Pack

  06-10-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are several notable ways in which civically engaged arts organizations differ from more market-driven arts organizations, including: they maintain stronger networks with other community organizations such as schools, senior centers, etc.; they consider civic engagement a key force driving the mission; they’re consciously aware of their nonprofit status.
  
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• How The Ideas And Music Of Morton Feldman Are Incorporated Everywhere Into Steven Holl's New Lewis Arts Complex At Princeton

  06-10-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I see the ideas of Morton Feldman’s music everywhere in Steven’s magnificent realization—and not just in the rugs of the Music Building that reproduce the graphic notation of Feldman’s early works. Steven’s architecture embodies the spirit of Feldman’s expansive and mystical late works."
  
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• Fun Facts About Who's Watching What Where By Streaming

  06-10-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Of the premium content offered by the Big Three streamers, the most popular shows in September from each were The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu), The Man in the High Castle (Amazon) and Narcos (Netflix), according to Parrot Analytics. Those three streamers are spending wildly to acquire content from the likes of CBS, Warner Bros., Lionsgate and more, as well as produce their own original shows. Netflix, for example, will plans to spend $6 billion this year while
  
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• 'My Fair Lady' Coming Back To Broadway After 25 Years, With Lauren Ambrose And 'Downton Abbey' Star

  06-10-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lincoln Center Theater will produce the revival directed by Bartlett Sher, whose revivals of South Pacific and The King and I there were enormous successes. Unusually, the actors playing Eliza (Ambrose) and Higgins (Harry Hadden-Paton, who played Bertie Pelham on Downton) are roughly the same age. Also in the cast will be Norbert Leo Butz and Diana Rigg.
  
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• Josephine Meckseper at ProyectosMonclova, Mexico City

  06-10-2017 20:40 via artnews.com
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• Why Diversity In Hollywood Is Extra Important

  06-10-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What if the world we think we know is only a tiny, myopic fraction of it? What if the things we believe we understand are nothing but learned patterns? We imagine that wanting to be inclusive and cosmopolitan makes us so, but we continue to be produced by and inhabit the structures that create oppression. This is precisely what makes it so important that Hollywood be truly democratic: It represents so much of the inner, the hidden and exceptional, of this country. If there is no space for the v
  
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• Actors Theatre Of Louisville Artistic Director Les Waters To Step Down

  06-10-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Les Waters, who has served as artistic director for six seasons, will depart next summer to pursue personal projects, according to a press release sent Wednesday. ... Waters has produced 78 plays and directed 18 in Louisville during his six seasons at the helm. His leadership 'invigorated' the Humana Festival of New American Plays, according to the release from Actors Theatre, and plays debuted at the festival were seen across the country. "
  
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• From the Archives: Leland Bell on André Derain’s Underrated Paintings, in 1960

  06-10-2017 19:52 via artnews.com
  "How can I begin to express my feelings about Derain’s work?" Read More
  
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• Why Women Pop Stars Don't Make The Canon

  06-10-2017 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wesley Morris investigates: "We take female musicians just seriously enough not to notice that we don’t actually take them seriously enough. They matter in the present. But posterity is another matter. Posterity is keeping them down in the basement in case Tom Petty comes over."
  
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• Glitter, latex and double dildos: art provocateur Lynda Benglis relives her rollercoaster career

  06-10-2017 19:06
  She electrified the art world of 1970s New York, savaging its macho culture with what became one of feminism’s most notorious images. As she arrives in Britain for Frieze Masters, we meet the radical pranksterLynda Benglis is a feminist icon. “Why do you think that is?” the 76-year-old American artist shoots back at me, showing some of the directness Tennessee Williams noted in a besotted essay in 1977. With bases in New York, Santa Fe, Kastellorizo in Greece and Ahmedabad in I
  
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• The Study Of Language History: We've Been Doing It Wrong, And There's Really No Such Thing, Say Researchers

  06-10-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The 'myth' of language history: languages do not share a single history but different components evolve along different trajectories and at different rates.A large-scale study of Pacific languages reveals that forces driving grammatical change are different to those driving lexical change. Grammar changes more rapidly and is especially influenced by contact with unrelated languages, while words are more resistant to change."
  
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• That Nude Mona Lisa Newly Attributed To Leonardo? Nothing New Here At All

  06-10-2017 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In reality, this latest New Leonardo Discovery is a warm-up of an old, on-the-record, attribution. In 1988 Jacques Franck, the art historian/painter trained in Old Master techniques (and a current restoration adviser to the Louvre), had closely examined the Joconde nue in the Château of Chantilly along with Amélie Lefébure, former Head curator of the Musée Condé, and Dominique Le Marois, a restorer in the French museums.
  
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• 'Sleepers' - Misattributed Old Masters Paintings And The Sharp-Eyed Observers Who Spot Them

  06-10-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For example, in 2015 a small New Jersey auction house offered for a few hundred dollars what it thought was an anonymous 19th-century painting; Bertrand Talabardon was pretty sure it was an early Rembrandt - and he was right. Nina Siegal looks at the 'sleeper' phenomenon and the culture around so-called "sleeper-spotters."
  
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• Catalyst: Julius von Bismark on Lightning

  06-10-2017 17:49 via artnews.com
  An artist selects an object, memory, or anecdote that served as a stimulus. Read More
  
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• Catalyst: Julius von Bismarck on Lightning

  06-10-2017 17:49 via artnews.com
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• Where Video Game Conventions Attract 300,000 Fans (Not In The US)

  06-10-2017 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The size and spectacle of the international gaming shows underline how the video game industry is less and less American-centric. The global games market is $105 billion, according to SuperData Research. Asia dominates with a 47 percent share, according to the video game researcher Newzoo, while North America makes up 25 percent and Latin America s 4 percent. Latin America, however, is growing the most quickly, according to Newzoo.
  
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• Are There Any Public Memorial Sculptures That *Unite* Americans? Scholars Pick Five They Think Do

  06-10-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As controversy swirls around demands to remove the memorials to the Confederacy and its officers found in many US cities, it's worth remembering that a lot of those statues "were cheap, mass-produced and exactly the kind of disgrace that [the great memorial sculptor Augustus] Saint-Gaudens condemned. With this in mind, we asked five specialists in American sculpture to select the pieces they regard as the nation's truly great works." (For better or worse, all five are in the Northeast Corridor.)
  
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• This Ballerina Was A Superstar In South Korea, And She Gave It All Up To Come To DC And Dance For Julie Kent

  06-10-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Back home, [EunWon] Lee was the National Ballet's youngest principal ballerina and a dance celebrity. Her performances sold out the Seoul opera house in minutes. ... With her lithe form and delicate, childlike features, she modeled for Swarovski jewelry and tossed out ceremonial pitches at ballgames. But it wasn't enough.
  
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• Arts Are $4.1 Billion Engine For Philadelphia's Economy

  06-10-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance report "shows a nearly 25 percent percent increase in economic impact over 2011, measured in direct spending by audiences and art organizations and estimated indirect spending. It also shows a 32 percent increase in city tax revenue, attributable to the arts sector."
  
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• Body shock: the intense art and anguish of sculptor Alina Szapocznikow

  06-10-2017 15:38
  She survived the Nazi death camps but never spoke of their horrors – except through her sculptures of lip-lamps, melting heads and rolling bellies. As the first major UK show of her work opens, her son remembers a remarkable talentSeeing the work of Alina Szapocznikow for the first time can be a shock. The artist, who died in Paris in 1973 aged 47, was neglected for years outside her native Poland. Only in the past decade has she begun to be recognised with major exhibitions at, for exampl
  
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• The Book Leonard Cohen Finished Just Before He Died Will Be Released Next Year

  06-10-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Describing the collection, The Flame, as 'an enormously powerful final chapter in Cohen's storied literary career', publisher Canongate said that the Canadian singer-songwriter had chosen and ordered the poems in the months before his death in November 2016. The overwhelming majority of the book, which will be published next October, will be new material, it added."
  
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• Another Plagiarism Scandal, This Time Involving A W.W. Norton Editor

  06-10-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Poet, critic, and W.W. Norton editor Jill Bialosky has come under fire for borrowing the language of others in her book Poetry Will Save Your Life, a critical anthology-cum-memoir. The issue was first called out in a [harshly critical] write-up of the book that William Logan published this week in the Tourniquet Review. ... We reached out to him with some questions."
  
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• When an Art Fair Gives You Lemons: A Spin Through the Focus Sector of Frieze London

  06-10-2017 15:05 via artnews.com
  You could be excused for trying to buy the three Meyer lemon trees at Frieze London in the booth of Los Angeles gallery Various Small Fires, which is staging Survival Piece V Part II: Lemon Orchard Fragment by the husband and wife … Read More
  
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• Guggenheim Director Talks About Threats To Staff That Led Him To Pull Artworks From Show

  06-10-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last week the museum removed three pieces from the exhibition "Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World" following pressure from animal-rights activists; countercriticism followed from artists, curators, and anti-censorship activists. Now Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong has explained his decision: "It was not only the quantity of people's reactions, but there were a number of them that bordered on ominously threatening, or beyond that. We were obliged to consult with the police."
  
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• Morning Links: Skate Bowl Edition

  06-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• New $330M Arts Complex Opens At Princeton University

  06-10-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The recently completed ... Lewis Center for the Arts complex is the largest single development in Princeton University history. Its 23 acres include a new train station, new restaurants, and three interconnected buildings housing state-of-the-art performance and rehearsal spaces. The centerpiece is the 139,000-square-foot building where all the disciplines rub against one another in an open plan - an orchestra rehearsal room is next to the black-box theater, which is next to a white cube exhibi
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Faces 27 Years' Worth Of Sexual Harassment Allegations

  06-10-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "An investigation by The New York Times found previously undisclosed allegations against Mr. Weinstein stretching over nearly three decades, documented through interviews with current and former employees and film industry workers, as well as legal records, emails and internal documents from the businesses he has run, Miramax and the Weinstein Company."
  
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• Angel Corella Speaks Publicly About Dismissal Of Dancers From Pennsylvania Ballet

  06-10-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  About a month after he arrived as artistic director, Corella said, "People started to put their arms across and say, 'This is not going to happen.' I heard that some dancers said, 'The same way we got rid of the previous artistic director, we're going to get rid of this one.' Dancers were laughing at my face. A dancer even insulted me in front of everyone, just called me an [expletive]. You had people who didn't even show up to class - I didn't see them for three or four months - others that wer
  
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• Corella's Predecessor At Pennsylvania Ballet Goes To Vegas

  06-10-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Roy Kaiser, who spent two decades as the Philadelphia-based company's artistic director (and 18 years at the company before that), is the new artistic director of Nevada Ballet Theatre in Las Vegas. "He replaces James Canfield, who served as NBT's artistic director from 2009 until his contract expired June 30. Kaiser is just the fourth artistic director of the Nevada Ballet Theatre, which is entering its 46th season."
  
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• Composer Klaus Huber, Giant Of 20th-Century Modernism, Dead At 92

  06-10-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Unlike the other greats of his generation, he was not a figure affected by the media. The genius emperor Boulez, the sensuous artist-prince Henze, the galactic Stockhausen, had all already cut their own paths as Klaus Huber continued to teach 40 violin students per week, and only pursued a vocation he’d long known in the mornings." (Huber was also a highly-regarded composition teacher; among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Wolfgang Rihm and Kaija Saariaho.)
  
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• More Appalling Behavior By V.S. Naipaul

  06-10-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The late novelist Anthony Powell was an important mentor and supporter of Naipaul during the latter's early years as a young Trinidadian writer in London. Years later, Naipaul included in his own memoir a harsh dismissal of Powell's writing. Now Powell's biographer has discovered evidence that Naipaul's remarks about Powell were quite possibly based on a lie and definitely different from what Naipaul had told Powell personally.
  
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• Jasper Johns’s Flag: a banner for patriotism or a cloak of oppression?

  06-10-2017 11:00
  The game-changing 1958 work forced observers to address the divisiveness of the stars and stripes and question where illusion begins and reality endsJohns’ Flag paintings rank among US art’s real game-changers. Johns worked a switcheroo on the 1950s’ prevailing style. In place of the abstract expressionists’ romanticised soul-baring globs of paint, the upstart created a straightforward, likeness of the flag. Continue reading...
  
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• The 10 best things to do this week: Lubaina Himid, Frieze and St Vincent

  06-10-2017 10:00
  The Turner nominee addresses the glamorisation of slaves, the famous art fair returns to London and Annie Clark drops her new albumLubaina Himid
  Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money gathers together works by female artists as selected by 2017 Turner prize nominee Lubaina Himid MBE, alongside 20 figures from her own Naming the Money installation. Addressing how Europe’s wealthy classes flaunted their power in the 18th and 19th centuries by using enslaved African men and women, dress
  
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• Global Arts Management Fellowship – DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the University of Maryland

  06-10-2017 05:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  The global arts management Fellowship at the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the University of Maryland provides personalized training and support for current executives from around the world. Applications are due December 15, 2017.
  The program is offered free of charge to arts managers from across the United States and around the world through a competitive application process. Fellows attend a four-week residency in Washington, D.C. each summer for three consecutive years and receive ong
  
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• Rubin Museum of Art in New York Appoints New Director

  06-10-2017 03:00 via artnews.com
  The museum focuses on art and ideas of the Himalayas, India, and neighboring areas. Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Pulls in $66.5 M. at Sleepy Contemporary Sale in London, Led by $8.4 M. Twombly

  06-10-2017 00:32 via artnews.com
  But a Basquiat estimated to sell for as much as $11.8 million failed to find a buyer. Read More
  
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• Music Education In The UK Is Contracting. And That, Say Musicians, Is A Big Problem

  06-10-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Figures from the University of Sussex suggest the number of schools in England offering music GCSE has dropped from 85% to 79% between 2012 and 2016. The survey, which spoke to 657 state and 48 private schools across England, claimed the amount of 13 and 14-year-olds given compulsory music lessons fell by nearly 25%."
  
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