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• Kay Rosen Heads to Alexander Gray Associates in New York

  17-10-2017 23:26 via artnews.com
  The artist's last solo gallery show in New York was at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in 2014. Read More
  
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• Music In The Museum - Plenty Of Upside (And Some Down-)

  17-10-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When it comes to presenting music, museums aren’t necessarily ahead of the curve. Yes, it’s great that they do it — and they do it a lot. Most of Washington’s major museums present concerts, from the diminutive Kreeger Museum, which fills its central exhibition space with chairs for a small chamber music festival every year in June, to the National Gallery, where the foliage and statuary of the West Garden Court, despite its distorting echoes and uncomfortable folding ch
  
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• Jessi Reaves feat. Bradley Kronz & Jessi Reaves (Waiting for Boots) at Dorich House Museum, London

  17-10-2017 22:54 via artnews.com
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• ‘It Was Just a Gift From a Friend’: An Old Basquiat Associate Sets Out to Authenticate a Drawing

  17-10-2017 22:36 via artnews.com
  Since the Basquiat Authentication Committee shut down in 2012, some collectors are pursuing other paths for proving the legitimacy of works they own. Read More
  
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• Are These The Worst Classical Music Album Covers Of All Time?

  17-10-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's a crowded category, but here are fifteen "covers from hell."
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda Interviews Stephen Sondheim

  17-10-2017 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sondheim was one of the first people I told about my idea for a piece about Alexander Hamilton, back in 2008. It was in this townhouse, on the first floor. I’d been hired to write Spanish translations for a Broadway revival of “West Side Story,” and during our first meeting he asked me what I was working on next. I told him “Alexander Hamilton,” and he threw back his head in laughter and clapped his hands.
  
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• Want To Be A Know-It-All? The 'Very Short Introduction' Books Are Here For You

  17-10-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Some of these books are concise introductions to topics you might later wish to pursue in greater depth: Modern India, say, or Shakespeare's Tragedies. Others, like Teeth, contain pretty much everything the average layperson would ever want or need to know. All of them, however, take their Very Short commitment seriously. The length of each book is fixed at thirty-five thousand words, or roughly a hundred and twenty pages. ... Never mind that the Roman Empire got some four thousand pages from E
  
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• The Movie Industry Thinks Rotten Tomatoes Has Ruined Criticism. But Has It?

  17-10-2017 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The question then becomes, are the scores on Rotten Tomatoes just reflective of the history of criticism, and thus of conventional opinion? Or are the Rotten Tomatoes contributors themselves the critics who prop up these reputations, and thus pave the way for smarter conversations about film online?"
  
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• Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg Foundations Team with Lin-Manuel Miranda for Hurricane Aid

  17-10-2017 20:05 via artnews.com
  The organizations and the playwright will give $300,000 to a fund started by Beta-Local, a San Juan–based nonprofit. Read More
  
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• Doing Stand-Up Comedy In East Asia Means Getting Your Act Past The Censors

  17-10-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In Asia, where a youthful stand-up comedy scene is still developing, comedians in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia are finding creative ways to tell jokes about sex and politics, while coming up against cultures of censorship and taboos."
  
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• Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters & Bellboys review

  17-10-2017 19:51
  These vivid, fleshy paintings of restaurant and hotel staff in 1920s France reveal the brutalised souls beneath the uniformsThe Butcher Boy looks like a killer who has bathed in blood. His black eyes are full of trouble. One of them is a horrible round hole in the pink, red and white hunk of flesh that is his face. The same crimson gore that streaks it saturates his once-white smock. Behind him there is more blood, a sea of red. He is a man of meat, a glaring golem of animated flesh.Chaim Soutin
  
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• Liberation day: the artists fighting the power of the market – and the internet

  17-10-2017 19:48
  Hito Steyerl is at war with the commodification of art and the corrupting power of the market. What’s she fighting them with? Manure. Meet the new wave of artists asking us reconsider everything from the web to warWhy make art when buyers treat works as an alternative currency, hiding them away like bullion bars in storage facilities? Can anything be done about questionable corporations and oppressive regimes using contemporary art to generate a spot of positive PR for themselves? And what
  
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• Where Are Native American Voices In Contemporary Art?

  17-10-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Native voices in the conversation are often put aside, and a lot of times the folks that get the spotlight or the final say are those that are in the higher positions within the field. So it feels like, collectively, what everyone is talking about is this idea of not being heard regularly, not being recognized regularly within larger historical narratives, within the art field in general, and then even within this conversation. So, thank you all."
  
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• What Exactly Do We Mean By 'Emerging' Choreographers? (And Should We Just Drop That Word?)

  17-10-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Siobhan Burke: "I can't remember when I first sensed disgruntlement toward the E-word. But in speaking with dancers and choreographers over the years, I've noticed that more often than not it elicits an eye roll, head shake, groan, sigh or shrug of 'whatever that means.'"
  
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• Lawsuit Charges That Grand Rapids Museum Misused Donor Funds

  17-10-2017 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  D. Neal Bremer, a Kalamazoo resident who worked as COO of the GRAM from June 2015 until his termination on June 28 of this year, claims that museum executives regularly misused donor-restricted funds on other expenses, “including general operations expenses,” according to the lawsuit filed on Sept. 22 in the 17th Circuit Court for Kent County.
  
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• Weinstein Company Saved From Financial Ruin As Harvey Faces Criminal Charges

  17-10-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The mini-studio announced Monday that it has entered into an agreement for [Los Angeles billionaire Thomas] Barrack's private equity firm, Colony Capital, to provide a cash infusion to the New York company. ... They have [also] entered a negotiation period for a sale of all or part of the beleaguered firm's assets."
  
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• London’s Hayward Gallery Appoints Vincent Honoré and Cliff Lauson Senior Curators

  17-10-2017 17:36 via artnews.com
  Their first show with the gallery will take place in January 2018. Read More
  
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• Under A Cloud, Director Of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum Resigns

  17-10-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to a statement issued by the museum, Beatrix Ruf resigned because of “the speculation in the media in recent weeks which may have an impact on the reputation of the museum.” Her duties will be taken over by the current management team, along with a short-term interim business director.
  
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• The Getty Leadership Institute - Apply Now for 2018 Programs

  17-10-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Executive Education for Museum Leaders: The Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University is now accepting applications for GLI 2018 and NextGen 2018 programs. Join a dynamic and diverse network of over 1,700 alumni from more than 40 countries globally. GLI programs combine online and in-residence learning and address current topics in the museum field. Applications due in January 2018.
  GLI 2018 
  Online: May 14-26, 2018Residency in Claremont, California: June 8-23, 2018APPLY B
  
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• Where Did The Idea Of A Mentor Come From? 'The Odyssey' - And Homer's Version Is Wisdom Personified

  17-10-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In fact, Homer's version is literally Wisdom personified - which is to say that it's Athena, goddess of wisdom, appearing to Telemachus in the form of a man named Mentor. Harvard classicist Gregory Nagy talks to The Atlantic about how Homer's Mentor is still relevant today.
  
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• Acoustics In Ancient Greek Amphitheatres Aren't Really So Extraordinary: Study

  17-10-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the famous theatre at Epidaurus, the claim has always been that you could hear a pin dropping or an actor whispering onstage even in the farthest seats. But a team of researchers has done extensive tests there, at Argos and at the Odeon in Athens, and they found that - while these ancient venues are hardly as bad as, say, the Sydney Opera House or Lincoln Center's original Philharmonic Hall - this hear-a-pin-drop business is a myth.
  
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• A terrifying trip to the USSR's dark heart – Ilya and Emilia Kabakov review

  17-10-2017 16:36
  Tate Modern, London
  With its harrowing echoes of repression, deprivation and murder, the Kabakovs’ art is a magnificent, moving monument to the millions crushed by communismShe was born in 1902 and died in 1987. She lived through the Russian revolution, the civil war that followed and the famine of 1921-22 that killed her father. Then there was the second world war and finally, at the end of her life, glasnost and perestroika. Her name was Bertha Urievna Solodukhina and her life was a cons
  
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• Smithsonian's Freer And Sackler Galleries Reopen After 18-Month Renovation

  17-10-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "After more than a year and a half of renovation work, the Freer reopened to the public over the weekend, along with a raft of new exhibitions at its partner institution, the subterranean Sackler Gallery to which it is connected by an underground tunnel. With the director of the Freer/Sackler, Julian Raby, set to retire early next year," writes Philip Kennicott, "this project serves as a summation of his tenure: Sensible, accessible and stylish in a low-key way."
  
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• Amidst Accusations of Conflict of Interest, Stedelijk Museum Director Beatrix Ruf Resigns

  17-10-2017 15:42 via artnews.com
  Recent reports unearthed outside business dealings. Read More
  
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• Amid Accusations of Conflict of Interest, Stedelijk Museum Director Beatrix Ruf Resigns

  17-10-2017 15:42 via artnews.com
  Recent reports unearthed outside business dealings. Read More
  
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• Lost Rodin Turns Up In Small-Town New Jersey

  17-10-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The art world lost track of acclaimed sculptor Auguste Rodin's bust of Napoleon in the 1930s, but it's apparently been on display for the past 85 years in the most unlikely of places - the council chambers in Madison Borough Hall."
  
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• Does Cincinnati Music Hall's Renovation Hold Any Lessons For Lincoln Center's Geffen Hall?

  17-10-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A concert hall that was simply too cavernous: hard to sell out and leaving audiences feeling distant from the music. Lobbies that have grown shabby over time. A fortresslike presence, somewhat isolated from the city just outside its doors. These are all problems that Lincoln Center and the New York Philharmonic have been trying to fix for nearly two decades at the theater now known as David Geffen Hall - and still hope to, after their announcement earlier this month that they had scrapped a $50
  
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• Artist Who Once Nailed Scrotum To Red Square Sets Fire To Bank Of France

  17-10-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky set fire to an entrance of Bank of France in Paris this weekend. The artist also condemned bankers as the new monarchs in his latest act of political performance art in France, the country that granted him political asylum in May. Pavlensky came to worldwide attention for his previous performances in Moscow, such as nailing his scrotum to the ground in Red Square and setting alight an entrance of the Federal Security Service building."
  
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• Never-Auctioned Léger Estimated at $65 M. Will Lead Christie’s Imp-Mod Sale During New York Auctions in November

  17-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  The work could set a new record for the artist. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Fire and Ire Edition

  17-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• Robbie Fairchild Gives His Farewell To New York City Ballet

  17-10-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At his final curtain call, Mr. Fairchild, the youngest dancer to have a farewell event at City Ballet" - he's 30 - "choreographed an unusual flower presentation: he stood by a basket of roses and handed a flower to fellow principal dancers, who came onstage one by one."
  
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• New York City Ballet's Summer Season In Saratoga Cut By Half

  17-10-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The 2018 ballet season will be cut in half, from a two-week run in 2017 to just one week. ... [Saratoga Performing Arts Center CEO Elizabeth] Sobol said the board decided to reduce City Ballet's stay because it lost more than $1 million on the NYCB residency. She said continuing to lose money on the residency is 'not prudent'."
  
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• Structure Deemed Too Lewd For Louvre Will Go To Pompidou Centre

  17-10-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The architectural sculpture titled Domestikator was rejected by the Louvre for installation in the Tuileries Gardens because they were thinking of the children: the work was thought too sexually suggestive to be displayed outdoors. (A playground is not far away.) So the work will end up outside the Pompidou Centre instead.
  
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• Semyon Bychkov Named Chief Conductor Of Czech Philharmonic

  17-10-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "He will begin the role starting with the 2018-19 season - the post had previously been held by Jiří Bělohlávek until his death in June this year."
  
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• Roy Dotrice, Star Of Screen, Stage, And 'Game Of Thrones' Audiobooks, Dead At 94

  17-10-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His six-decade career included plenty of television and film work (he played Mozart's father in Amadeus) as well as an astounding number of stage appearances. He was an early member of Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company, won a Tony as the scheming father in A Moon for the Misbegotten, gave nearly 1,800 performances as 17th-century writer John Aubrey in the one-man show Brief Lives and hundreds more as the president in Mister Lincoln. He holds the world record for the number of different char
  
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• It's hard to imagine the family of a white artist being treated like Albert Namatjira's | Paul Daley

  17-10-2017 07:13
  The central issue in the long tussle over the copyright of Albert Namatjira’s work is the denial of Indigenous agencyAlbert Namatjira’s legacy as the foremost Indigenous painter of his generation has endured, despite the divided opinions of his contemporary critics.
  His work has been acknowledged by British royalty, hung in the drawing rooms of the mega-rich and exhibited worldwide. His coveted, creviced landscapes of valleys, copses and bone-dry riverbeds, with their softened palett
  
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