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• Stan Grant compares Indigenous cultural sites to the Sistine Chapel

  12-10-2017 23:43
  Broadcaster makes comments at opening of Tarnanthi festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art Stan Grant has compared Indigenous cultural heritage sites such as Lake Mungo to the Sistine Chapel and said the depth and breadth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art “punctures” the conception of Terra nullius.The ABC broadcaster made the comments at the opening of the Tarnanthi festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Ga
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Issues Statement Against U.S. Decision to Pull Out of UNESCO

  12-10-2017 23:43 via artnews.com
  'The Met remains deeply committed to productive engagement with UNESCO.' Read More
  
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• First Impressions Of Cincinnati's Rebuilt Music Hall

  12-10-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Janelle Gelfand: "On opening night, listeners were still taking in the elegant new décor and patron-friendly amenities, which include cup holders for the first time on new, wider seats. Now, however, there are about 1,000 fewer seats in a hall that formerly seated more than 3,400; the audience for this gala re-opening was 2,282."
  
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• ‘Art x Cuba’ at Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

  12-10-2017 23:13 via artnews.com
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• Basquiat’s ‘Red Skull,’ Sold at Christie’s in London for $21.5 M., Will Fund New Charter Schools in New Jersey and Miami

  12-10-2017 23:05 via artnews.com
  There was one bit of good news to come out of the last week’s auctions in London: the anonymous consignor of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Red Skull (1982), which sold for $21.5 million at Christie’s contemporary evening sale Friday night, announced that he … Read More
  
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• The Bilbao Effect - 20 Years Later

  12-10-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  "For all its fame, there are many who ask if so-called the “Bilbao effect” is real, and if so, if it is easily repeatable. Was the Guggenheim Bilbao a unique combination of a project at the right time and in the right place—a great architect and daring museum combined with an unusually forward-looking regional government willing to invest? Have the reasons for its transformative effect been misunderstood, explaining why its model has been frequently imitated but its extraordina
  
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• Color Me Beautiful: Becca Albee Presents ‘Prismataria’ at Situations in New York

  12-10-2017 22:57 via artnews.com
  The show was inspired by an intriguing room at the Aquatic Park Bathhouse in San Francisco. Read More
  
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• Study: How You Read Affects How Much You Remember

  12-10-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "One study revealed that people think they are better at comprehending information when they read it on a digital screen. This resulted in those readers reading the text much faster than those reading the text in paper format. Yet despite spending less time reading the text, the digital readers predicted they would perform better on a quiz about the text than the people who read the text on paper. Yet when the digital and paper groups were tested, the paper groups outperformed the digital g
  
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• Laughing In The Time Of Trump

  12-10-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Humor in the time of Trump is a triumph for our democracy. There's nothing he can do to stop it and the message has plenty of messengers. Information is there for anyone who wants to know, as comedy takes on a pioneering new role in the dissemination of that information. Resistance takes many forms, and humor may turn out to be the most potent of all."
  
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• Visual Arts Management Fellowship in NYC

  12-10-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Catherine Hannah Behrend Fellowship provides mentorship and support for emerging female leaders working in visual arts management in NYC. Applications for 2018 are due Friday, October 20.
  It's the final week to apply for the 2018 Catherine Hannah Behrend Fellowship, which provides mentorship and support for emerging female leaders working in visual arts management. Fellows will also join a network of cross-sector leaders as part of the Women inPower Fellowship,www.womeninpower.org.
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• How The Big Auction Houses Are Mutating To Survive

  12-10-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Though the hammer’s coming down on a major price in front of a crowd is good for headlines, auction houses have dealt with the pressures of the business by branching out. Private sales are increasingly important to the bottom line, as are advisory businesses — the auction houses help a collector manage her treasures, for instance, or broker acquisitions for museums."
  
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• A Visit To Google's 'Moonshot Factory'

  12-10-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A snake-robot designer, a balloon scientist, a liquid-crystals technologist, an extradimensional physicist, a psychology geek, an electronic-materials wrangler, and a journalist walk into a room. The journalist turns to the assembled crowd and asks: Should we build houses on the ocean?" Is this the set-up to a joke? No, it's The Atlantic's Derek Thompson proposing his own "moonshot idea" on a reporting trip to Google's X, "perhaps the only enterprise on the planet where regular investigation in
  
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• Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Executive Director Alyson Baker to Step Down

  12-10-2017 20:40 via artnews.com
  Tracey Moore and Richard Klein will serve as interim co-directors starting in January 2018. Read More
  
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• Eight Ways Non-Profits Talk About Exploiting Workers

  12-10-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The nature of nonprofit exploitation is revealed in the language we use uncritically. I’ve ranked eight common nonprofit phrases from least to most exploitative."
  
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• Chuck Prophet: Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins

  12-10-2017 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like Tony Soprano’s wild ducks, Chuck Prophet albums arrive seasonally, every two or three years, which reminds me, stealing from Tom Stoppard, that “music when it’s done right affects our nerves, makes us want to say nice, stupid things and to pat the heads of those people who can create such beauty. Although nowadays we can’t pat heads or we’ll get our hands bitten off.”
  Regardless, somewhere amongst the fake news and conspiracy theories, trumpets are trumpe
  
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• The Insane History Of The Ballpoint Pen

  12-10-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Invented by a Hungarian in Argentina, re-engineered by an American high school dropout, it created such a sensation when it appeared in a New York department store that the police had to control the crowds. (This even though it sold for the present-day equivalent of $165 each.) Inventory sold out in a flash (and disappeared mysteriously from the factory). And that's not even the first year.
  
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• Gagosian Now Represents Mary Weatherford, Who Will Appear in New York Show of Gallery’s L.A. Artists

  12-10-2017 20:00 via artnews.com
  Mary Weatherford, the Los Angeles artist who in recent years has quickly become one of the more prominent artists of her generation, will now be represented by Gagosian Gallery, ARTnews has learned. The representation deal extends to all of the … Read More
  
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• Let us be privy to the details of your neighbour’s toilet paper | Brief letters

  12-10-2017 19:34
  Artists | The US as a threat | Goose grease | Toilet reading | Bong hits 4 JesusThe Pier Art Centre in Stromness (Letters, 4 October) also has some wonderful pieces by my aunt, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, who painted in Orkney and was a member of the St Ives group. My uncle, David Lewis, then married to Willie, was secretary to Barbara Hepworth. He became an architect, but – now 95 – he is producing enchanting sculptures of animals and birds in Pittsburgh almost daily.
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• Image Fees For PhD's? Outrageous!

  12-10-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As one-off fees, you might say, ‘that’s not so bad’. But consider that your average art history PhD will have dozens, if not perhaps hundreds, of images, then soon even an unpublished PhD can become prohibitively expensive. You want to discuss mid-18th Century portraiture, and show perhaps 50 images? That’ll be £750. You want to turn that PhD into a book? £3050 please, before you’ve even thought of printing costs. Want to put on a Hogarth exhibition, wi
  
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• The 10 Best Places In DC To Sit And Really Enjoy Art

  12-10-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Sitting down, in a museum, can be an almost radical act: a refusal to flow along with the distracted crowd, idly passing by art as if it was just one more stream of visual enticement in a visually saturated world. A good sit is all about committing to the depth, not the breadth, of the art itself, seeing more by deciding to see less." Philip Kennicott picks the finest spots in greater Washington to do just that.
  
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• A Jazz Revolution In Philly

  12-10-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The October Revolution in Jazz & Contemporary Music was something like a State of the Union for free improvisation and avant-garde composition, and also a statement of potential. An intergenerational sweep of experimentalists — including younger acts as well as many of free jazz’s first-generation heroes, now in their 70s, 80s and 90s — appeared on a well-appointed stage in a city not known for high-budget jazz presentations. It was a rare institutional momen
  
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• How to Become A Rockette, According To The Coach Who's Trained 36 Of Them

  12-10-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "After 12 seasons dancing with the Rockettes, Rhonda Kaufman Malkin knows a thing or two about becoming one of Radio City's iconic dancers. ... At the most recent Rockettes callback, over half of the 25 dancers were Malkin's students - and seven of them were offered contracts. Here's how to get to Radio City, according to Malkin."
  
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• Julian Cox Named Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Art Gallery of Ontario

  12-10-2017 18:00 via artnews.com
  He was previously chief curator and the founding curator of photography at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Read More
  
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• Gary Nader to Sell $100 M. Worth of Artworks From His Collection to Fund New Miami Museum

  12-10-2017 17:36 via artnews.com
  The dealer currently runs an arts center in the city, and he has a gallery in New York. Read More
  
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• The Very Modern Life Of An Old-Timey Baseball Organist

  12-10-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A reporter climbs up to the equivalent of the organ loft (which looks "more like an air traffic control booth") at Fenway Park to watch Boston Red Sox organist Josh Kantor and his high-tech equipment at work.
  
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• Disembodied Hands Are The New Stars Of Online Video

  12-10-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The disembodied hand has a sinister cinematic reputation. ... But on social media, the hand has been cast in a new role, as a symbol of artisanal craftsmanship and entrepreneurial zeal. ... This time it's a helping hand, channeling its energies toward cooking party foods and executing creative household hacks."
  
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• Marina Abramović Abandons Plan For Performance Art Institute

  12-10-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The superstar performance artist had hired starchitect Rem Koolhaas to convert a former theater she had bought in Hudson, NY into the Marina Abramović Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art. But Koolhaas's design would cost an estimated $31 million to realize, and Abramović has determined that she can't raise that much money. (Ah, well - at least she has a new sideline in patisserie.)
  
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• Want To Taste Marina Abramović? She Has Developed A Marina-Flavored Macaron

  12-10-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "So what does Marina Abramović taste like? The sweets are a variation on Prussian Blue, a warrior color that is tied to memories of her parents and of the ocean, and they leave a guilty blue stain on your tongue. ... One of the treats [which are three to a box] is wrapped in gold leaf. The flavors involved are strong and, much like the artist herself, aren't for everybody."
  
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• Harvey Weinstein May Be Gone, But Hollywood's Woman Problems Are Not

  12-10-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Manohla Dargis observes how Weinstein's treatment of relatively powerless young women has been considered normal behavior in the film industry for most of its history - and considers whether the current backlash is a turning point.
  
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• MFA Boston Gets Two Huge Gifts Of Old Dutch Master Paintings

  12-10-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two Boston-area couples who have been collecting 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art for decades are donating a total of 113 works - includingcanvases by Rembrandt, van Dyck, and Rubens - along with funding and library materials for a new Center for the Study of Netherlandish Art.
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Broad City’ Does Drugs Edition

  12-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Jewish History Center Cancels Play Under Right-Wing Pressure; Backlash Follows

  12-10-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The board of the American Jewish Historical Society, based in Manhattan, canceled a public reading of Rubble Rubble by playwright Dan Fishback, a critic of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. The play is about disagreements within a family over Israel and Palestine, but, says Fishback, "The people who made this decision had no access to my script. This was about my beliefs." Criticism of the cancellation came swiftly, and one artist removed work of hers from display at the Society.
  
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• Kansas City Symphony Increases Endowment By $55 Million

  12-10-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "After a five-year fundraising campaign, the Kansas City Symphony announced Wednesday that it had accomplished its goal of raising $55 million for its endowment fund, which will now total more than $100 million."
  
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• Dancer Pennsylvania Ballet Fired For Being Too Tall Tells Her Story

  12-10-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sara Michelle Murawski was personally recruited by incoming artistic director Ángel Corella, only to be told - four months into her first season and right before she went onstage as the Sugar Plum Fairy - that her contract would not be renewed because she was too tall for any of the company's men to partner. (She's 5'10½".) She writes here about getting through the shock and disappointment, how her height has and hasn't been an issue throughout her studies and career, and how she c
  
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• Lawsuit Dropped, Looted Antiquity To Be Returned From Met Museum To Lebanon

  12-10-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A Colorado couple has dropped a federal lawsuit that sought to stop the Manhattan district attorney's office from returning to the Republic of Lebanon an ancient marble bull's head that prosecutors said had been looted during that country's civil war. ... The 2,300-year-old sculpture had been on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art until July when the museum turned it over to authorities."
  
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• Britain's National Theatre Says It's Too Dependent On Money From On Commercial Transfers

  12-10-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While the three-venue complex at London's Southbank Centre saw its best attendance (93%) in 14 years, with a boost in box-office income, its report says that the NT has relied too much on revenue - by nature uncertain - from the likes of War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time to offset government funding cuts.
  
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• Politics Looms Over World's Oldest Book Fair

  12-10-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'Books are the best weapons,' President Emmanuel Macron of France said at the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair, addressing the unifying power of literature and language. 'Without culture, there is no Europe.' ... Can Dundar, the former editor in chief of the Turkish opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet who faces imprisonment in Turkey, will add to the political theme in a talk about writing in exile; the German author Thomas Wagner and the activist Gerald Hensel will discuss the identity of the ne
  
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• Shrooms With a View: Comedy Central’s ‘Broad City’ Airs a Psychedelic Trip by Artist Mike Perry

  12-10-2017 05:00 via artnews.com
  Drooping googly eyes and purple gasses abound. Read More
  
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• Lessons From The Collapse Of Lincoln Center's Concert Hall Project For The NY Philharmonic?

  12-10-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The 'Old World' model of Geffenesque patrons seems to be receding, making way for donors striving to solve real-world problems. It's becoming increasingly difficult to shoehorn a $500-$800 million capital project for a legacy institution into a paradigm that frames the arts as a vehicle for social change. This trend is permeating public policy, as well. Consider the political landscape that is Bill de Blasio's New York City. While legacy institutions have expected some sort of pu
  
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