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• A "Phantom Of The Opera Sequel - But It's On A Tour That Critics Aren't Supposed To Review?

  10-10-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This is a new wrinkle in the very old book of showdowns between producers and critics. It’s one thing to have a preview period for performers and stagehands to settle in; previews even used to be significantly discounted, a good-faith concession from producers to fans as shows found their footing. But using an entire tour stop as a critic-free preview zone? That’s not how out-of-town tryouts or tours run. Eventually reviewers  report."
  
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• Foundation Claims Ownership of Arakawa and Gins’s Sprawling ‘The Mechanism of Meaning’ Piece [UPDATED]

  10-10-2017 23:21 via artnews.com
  An organization founded by the artists is suing another founded by the artists, and the Madoff scheme is part of the story. Read More
  
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• Foundation Claims Ownership of Arakawa and Gins’s Sprawling ‘The Mechanism of Meaning’ Piece

  10-10-2017 23:21 via artnews.com
  An organization founded by the artists is suing another founded by the artists, and the Madoff scheme is part of the story. Read More
  
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• Consciousness - What's Real And What's Not (And That's Difficult To Determine)

  10-10-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "We live in a time when scientists seem to like nothing better than to expose our everyday view of reality as delusional. They say, “You see the color red, but in fact, out there are only atoms; there are no colors. You hear music, but out there, there are no sounds,” etc. This gives them the authority to describe an entirely different reality, in which deciding between chocolate or strawberry ice cream, say, is nothing more than a matter of warring cohorts of neurons transferring th
  
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• Jack Whitten at Hauser & Wirth, London

  10-10-2017 22:51 via artnews.com
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• The Leonardo We Need Him To Be: Walter Isaacson's New Bio Frames The Artist/Thinker For Contemporary Culture

  10-10-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Our deepest sense of this most famous artist remains subject to change. The systematic publication of the notebooks, beginning in the late nineteenth century, tipped our understanding of his goals from art toward science, and opened questions about how to square the legendary peacefulness of his nature with his designs for ingeniously murderous war machines."
  
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• Alex Ross: New York's Two Biggest Musical Organizations Open Their Seasons In Predictable, Traditional Fashion

  10-10-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Metropolitan Opera opened the season with its hundred-and-fifty-seventh performance of Bellini’s “Norma.” The New York Philharmonic began with its hundred-and-nineteenth rendition of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. This is the safe course that many performing-arts groups are choosing in precarious times: the eternal return to the world that was. Both works are masterpieces that deserve to be heard repeatedly. Yet the implicit message is reactionary. As the nation contends wi
  
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• Only Leonardo da Vinci in private hands set to fetch £75m at auction

  10-10-2017 21:06
  Salvator Mundi was confirmed as an authentic old master just six years ago, having sold for £45 at auction in 1958 The only Leonardo da Vinci painting in private hands, which fetched just £45 at a sale in 1958, is to be sold at auction with an estimate of $100m (£75m).Salvator Mundi, one of the 15 or so known to be by the artist, was lost for centuries before its authenticity was confirmed in 2011. Related: Leonardo da Vinci may have drawn nude Mona LisaRelated: Revealed: the u
  
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• Wall Street Firm That Paid To Erect "Fearless Girl" Sculpture Is Fined For Underpaying Women Employees

  10-10-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ironic? The company had called on Wall Street companies to put more women in leadership roles when it erected the sculpture. After complaints about underpaying women, the company will pay $5 million to more than 300 women, following a U.S. Department of Labor audit that uncovered the alleged discrepancies, according to a settlement agreement.
  
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• As Fires Burn in Northern California, Arts Institutions Close Doors [Updated]

  10-10-2017 20:48 via artnews.com
  Over 20,000 people have been evacuated in Northern California since Sunday. Read More
  
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• As Fires Burn in Northern California, Arts Institutions Close Doors

  10-10-2017 20:48 via artnews.com
  Over 20,000 people have been evacuated in Northern California since Sunday. Read More
  
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• Kent Nagano Re-Ups As Director Of Hamburg State Opera

  10-10-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As the contract now stands, Nagano will serve as General Music Director until 2025, a role he began in 2015.
  
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• Tom Alter, Bollywood's Favorite White Actor, Dead At 67

  10-10-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "With light skin, blue eyes and blond hair, which later turned bright white, Mr. Alter was an incongruous figure in Bollywood. But he spoke Hindi and Urdu fluently" - the child and grandchild of Presbyterian missionaries from Ohio, he was born and raised in India - "making him a natural fit for roles like slick diplomats, British colonials, priests and police officers." He appeared in more than 300 films in Hindi, Urdu, and other languages, and had a notable career as a stage and television acto
  
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• White Columns Will Move to New Location Next to Whitney Museum in New York

  10-10-2017 19:31 via artnews.com
  The gallery's director, Matthew Higgs, has secured a 15-year lease on the spot. Read More
  
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• The Most Influential Curators Of The Last Century - An Opinionated List

  10-10-2017 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While many curators today have a status on a par with the artists with whom they work, it was not always thus. The celebrity status of the curator has mushroomed with the professionalization of art, the multiplication of international events, and, not least, with difficult-to-define contemporary art being in desperately in need of able ambassadors to the public.
  
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• What Newspapers Sacrifice When They Get Rid Of Their Arts Critics

  10-10-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peter Preston, who was editor of The Guardian for 20 years (1975-95): "If a film critic, say, has real value, then it's in the build-up of recognition and trust between them and the reader. Week by week, you share the critic's views and check them against your own cinema-going experience. ... [Critics'] eye on the arts, day by day and week by week, adds richness and information to the mix. They have the possibility of authority that blogs or compilations in the Rotten Tomatoes style lack."
  
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• Floods, locust farms and teens in charge: Blast Theory's vision of Hull in 2097

  10-10-2017 18:42
  The experimental troupe are giving the UK city of culture a glimpse of what it might look like in 80 years’ time – and it isn’t pretty. Our writer travels to Denmark to meet the team behind this hi-tech invasionUp on the roof of a museum in Aarhus, Denmark’s second city, Matt Adams is offering me a vision of the future. “This is where we’ll put the habitation pods,” he says, sweeping his arm towards a white wall. “And over there is where the molecu
  
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• Many News Sites Have Shut Off Reader Comments. That Might Be A Mistake

  10-10-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Abuse, trolling, harassment, racism, misogyny—these are all real problems down in the comments, and they’re a symptom of wider problems: societal, yes, but also strategic. The current process goes like this: Journalist writes an article. Article is published. People write comments. Journalist peeks at the comments, and sees a lot of meanness and abuse (especially if they’re a woman, a person of color, or especially a woman of color). Journalist vows not to engage with such horr
  
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• Academic Journal Publishes, Then Yanks, Article Defending Colonialism (Just In Time For Columbus Day)

  10-10-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'The Case for Colonialism,' written by a political science professor at Portland State University, drew immediate outcries from scholars when it was published last month by Third World Quarterly. Fifteen members of the journal's 34-member board resigned in protest, and two petitions demanded that the journal retract the piece." However, Noam Chomsky (of all people) argued against retraction, saying that rebuttal was the better course. "The article recently disappeared from the journal's website
  
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• Cash Or Recognition? Study Tests Which Is The Bigger Incentive For Being Creative

  10-10-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Sure, if you're an artist trying to impress other artists, that high-profile prize can indeed be inspirational. But for those not eligible for a Pulitzer or Emmy—such as consumers who are invited to come up with new product ideas—money is the more effective motivator."
  
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• Christie’s to Offer Last Leonardo Painting Left in Private Hands at November Contemporary Sale, Estimated at $100 M.

  10-10-2017 17:27 via artnews.com
  The piece has been the subject of legal battles. Read More
  
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• Frederik Meijer Gardens And Sculpture Park To Get $115M Expansion

  10-10-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The four-year building project, which launched in September, includes new education and visitor centres, an expansion of the current indoor exhibition space and a transportation centre on the Meijer Gardens' 158-acre main campus, designed by the New York-based Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects," in Grand Rapids.
  
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• How Hollywood Uses, And Misuses, Classical Music: Midgette

  10-10-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Anne Midgette looks at how filmmakers employ well-known classical scores as signifiers and, occasionally, plot points.
  
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• A Ballet Company Without Dancers (So Far)

  10-10-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Indianapolis City Ballet, founded in 2009 by the late Robert Hesse and now led by his son Kevin, presents an alternate paradigm: start with building an audience. After several attempts to sustain a professional company in Indianapolis failed, Hesse and his team are experimenting with a new model: a non-profit producing organization that seeks to bolster the city's dance community by sponsoring events like gala performances, master classes and competitions."
  
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• International Center of Photography to Move to New Lower East Side Space in 2019

  10-10-2017 15:55 via artnews.com
  Its new home, at 242 Broome Street, puts it at the heart of the Essex Crossing project. Read More
  
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• 30 Publishers Reject Novel For Being 'Too Gay' For Mass Market, So Crowdfunding Comes To Rescue

  10-10-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[Matt] Cain, the editor of Attitude magazine [a popular gay-male-oriented title in Britain], said the support for his book - which is on course to be the fastest-funded novel on [crowdfunding platform] Unbound - showed there was a market for a commercial novel about a gay man, even though publishers rejected it as 'too working class, too 80s, too immersed in pop culture, and too gay'."
  
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• Can There Be A Weinstein Company Without Harvey Weinstein?

  10-10-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Without Mr. Weinstein, this studio, already struggling at the box office and hobbled by an exodus of senior staff members in recent years, is in serious trouble. The movie and television company's other founder and co-chairman, Bob Weinstein, has a substantial track record running Dimension Films, a label dedicated to horror movies and family fare, like the Spy Kids franchise. [David] Glasser, sometimes referred to in Hollywood as the third Weinstein brother, is an experienced executive. But Ha
  
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• 'Do Not Let Me Be Fired': Harvey Weinstein Begged Hollywood Insiders To Defend Him. They Didn't

  10-10-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Late Thursday, Harvey Weinstein called top Hollywood talent agents to ask for a substantial favor: to please speak up in his defense as he contended with sexual harassment allegations stretching back decades. When none did, and with the remnants of the Weinstein Company's board moving to fire him as the studio's co-chairman, Mr. Weinstein got more frantic. On Sunday, he sent an email to agents and studio executives that said he was 'desperate' for their help."
  
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• Step into a New Phase: Eleven Madison Park Makes Art Part of a Fabled Restaurant Setting

  10-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Newly reopened after months of renovation, the feted eatery commissioned artworks by Daniel Turner and other artists. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Awe-Inspiring David Hammons Sculpture Edition

  10-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Diller Scofidio + Renfro To Design London's Long-Awaited Concert Hall

  10-10-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The architects were selected by the City of London Corporation from a shortlist of well-established names, including Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano, to design the new [£250 million] Centre for Music. The concert hall will be built on the current site of the Museum of London as a permanent home for Simon Rattle's London Symphony Orchestra."
  
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• Akram Khan To Retire (More Or Less) From Dancing

  10-10-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The 43-year-old dancer-choreographer" - one of Britain's most celebrated - "said he would still dance smaller roles and cameos, but the physical rigours of performing solo onstage for more than an hour were becoming too much."
  
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• Jessica Kreps Named Partner at Lehmann Maupin

  10-10-2017 14:30 via artnews.com
  She was previously a director at the gallery, which has spaces in New York and Hong Kong. Read More
  
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• ArtPrize's 200K Public Grand Prize Goes To Lincoln Portrait Made Of Lincoln Pennies

  10-10-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "ArtPrize Nine [audience] voters gave Battle Creek graphic designer Richard Schlatter the $200,000 Grand Prize for his 12-foot portrait of Abraham Lincoln made from about 24,500 pennies that bear Lincoln's image. ... Schlatter said he decided to create the portrait after he was mesmerized by the various shades of pennies he had accumulated." (To see all the 2017 ArtPrize category winners, click here.)
  
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• Outdoor Feast For 250 People Wins ArtPrize's 200K Juried Grand Prize

  10-10-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Heartside Community Meal, an outdoor meal for 250 guests in Heartside Park [in Grand Rapids] on Sept. 23, was entered by Seitu Jones, a Saint Paul, Minnesota, artist who teaches urban food systems at the University of Minnesota." (To see all the 2017 ArtPrize category winners, click here.)
  
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• Met And Bolshoi To Co-Produce Three New Anna Netrebko Vehicles

  10-10-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The three productions - Verdi's Aida, Strauss's Salome and Wagner's Lohengrin - are the first joint ventures for the two companies. No dates or directors have been announced yet, though Bolshoi general director Vladimir Urin made a point of saying that the project has President Putin's approval.
  
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• What mysteries could be unlocked by new Antikythera shipwreck finds?

  10-10-2017 12:28
  Excavation has revealed fragments of bronze sculpture and raises the possibility of several buried statues in the area. So what do these discoveries tell us?The shipwreck at Antikythera, Greece, continues to reveal its secrets and surprise archaeologists. As reported last week, recent excavations on the 1st century BC shipwreck have revealed statue fragments, bronze ornamentation, and wooden remains from the ship’s hull. The finds are sensational, but the artifacts and the project have bro
  
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• Prince, Offred or a Walnut Whip? The thinking person’s style icons for autumn

  10-10-2017 07:00
  It’s getting chilly. You probably need a new jumper. Not sure what to buy? Here are the cultural touchstones to take fashion inspiration from this seasonSure, one of Prince’s most memorable outfits consisted of a trench coat, pants and thigh-high stockings. But AW17 is all about his mid-80s tour wardrobe. See, for inspo, the purple, ruched suit of the Purple Rain tour, or the banana-yellow suit – with cropped jacket – for Parade, both of which had the shoulders and shapes
  
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• Hank Willis Thomas: why does America's great protest artist think things are better under Trump?

  10-10-2017 07:00
  He is one of America’s most outspoken artists. As his new show The Beautiful Game hits Britain, Hank Willis Thomas talks about sport as warfare and why race is a mythFor some people, football is a matter of life and death. But for Hank Willis Thomas, much like Bill Shankly, it’s far more important than that. Yes, on an aesthetic level The Beautiful Game, his first solo UK show, is a riot of colour and energy: dazzling patchwork collages of Premier League football tops; totem poles of
  
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• Frank Skinner: People question my art credentials because of my social class

  10-10-2017 01:01
  Midlands-born host of Landscape Artist of the Year says he is ‘opera buddies’ with co-host and Labour peer Joan BakewellFrank Skinner has said Britain is snobbish about art and that people question whether he is qualified to present an arts programme because of his social class.The comedian and TV presenter, who hosts Landscape Artist of the Year on Sky Arts alongside the broadcaster and Labour peer Joan Bakewell, is a regular visitor to the opera. Continue reading...
  
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