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• Norman Rockwell’s Sons Sue Berkshire Museum, Seeking Halt to Sotheby’s Sale

  20-10-2017 23:41 via artnews.com
  The auction house said that "the claims are legally and factually flawed." Read More
  
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• Vasari Diary: ‘Artists Against Originality,’ Peter Soriano, and Nathalie du Pasquier

  20-10-2017 23:34 via artnews.com
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• Toronto’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Gets A New CEO After A Year Of Trouble

  20-10-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Heidi Reitmaeir’s appointment marks the end of a long fallow period for the institution, which, after closing its doors in its previous Queen Street West location in 2015, has endured construction delays and high-profile changes in leadership along its path to reinvention.
  
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• Disquieting, disturbing and fantastical Hyper Real takes over the NGA

  20-10-2017 23:25
  Hyper Real exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra is creepy, weird and revels in strangeness To be “hyper real” - the National Gallery of Australia’s latest exhibition is somewhat at pains to explain - is to go “beyond, over” our expectations of the genre of realism.Displaying more than 50 works from an international selection of artists, and including new commissions from local ones, the collection revels in the strangeness that can be provoked
  
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• Art Galleries Move Into An LA Neighborhood And Residents Protest Gentrification (But It Isn’t Quite So Cut-And-Dried)

  20-10-2017 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When a number of largely white-owned art galleries started opening here over the past few years, a familiar narrative began to emerge: new businesses and more affluent tenants moved in, followed by rent rises that forced out longtime residents. But while many young activists in Boyle Heights have loudly and aggressively protested the art galleries, Guadalupe Rosales – a successful artist and Boyle Heights native committed to preserving the history of her neighbourhood – doesn’t
  
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• Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo & Andrew Mroczek at Museum of Sex, New York

  20-10-2017 22:45 via artnews.com
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• Pallet Intrigue: Sculpture by Karolina Grzywnowicz Conjures Ghosts of Polish Primeval Forest

  20-10-2017 22:30 via artnews.com
  Black oak from a tree more than 1,350 years old takes on a loaded form. Read More
  
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• Pallet Intrigue: Sculpture by Karolina Gryzywnowicz Conjures Ghosts of Polish Primeval Forest

  20-10-2017 22:30 via artnews.com
  Black oak from a tree more than 1,350 years old takes on a loaded form. Read More
  
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• I Made My Students Surrender Their Cellphones In Class. This Is What Happened

  20-10-2017 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Initially, 37 per cent of my 30 students – undergraduates at Boston University – were angry or annoyed about this experiment. While my previous policy leveraged public humiliation, it didn’t dictate what they did with their phones in class. For some, putting their phones into cases seemed akin to caging a pet, a clear denial of freedom. Yet by the end of the semester, only 14 per cent felt negatively about the pouches; 11 per cent were ‘pleasantly surprised’; 7 per
  
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• Kirkus Changes A Book Review And A Storm Of Questions Erupts

  20-10-2017 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Would Kirkus’s reviewer have changed her mind independently, even if the review hadn’t been pulled for evaluation? Or did she feel pressured to alter what had proven to be a deeply unpopular opinion when asked if she wanted to, even without explicit instructions to do so? What is clear, though, is that the choice to un-star American Heart reflects something noteworthy about Kirkus’sframework for critique — one in which a book’s value is dete
  
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• Jean Nouvel Talks About His New Abu Dhabi Louvre

  20-10-2017 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The building is a giant dome that lets some light through. When tests were carried out in Stuttgart, Germany, and on a scale mock-up in Abu Dhabi, Nouvel found that even the 5 per cent of sunlight he intended to allow through was too much. In the finished museum, “Only 1.8 per cent of light goes through all layers of the dome,” Hala Wardé says. “We reduced the light to achieve the effect and level of comfort we were seeking.”
  
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• LeVar Burton Wins The Right To Use “Reading Rainbow” Tagline

  20-10-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You may remember the news in early August of a strongly worded lawsuitfiled by WNED, the PBS affiliate in Buffalo, New York, that owns the Reading Rainbow brand, against Burton and his digital reading company RRKidz (recently renamed LeVar Burton Kids), for “theft and extortion” regarding a series of alleged trademark violations — including promoting his podcast as “a Reading Rainbow for adults” and his repeated use of a catch
  
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• How Would You Explain Opera? Here’s One Attempt

  20-10-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One would think that in an era of immersive realities, opera would have tried to aim for higher levels of verisimilitude, would have become grittier and true to life, but in the age of cinema, the opposite happened. Twentieth-century opera became more amorphous, less plot-driven. Watch something like Nixon In China, with its listless, meandering scenes and droning, repetitive music, and you will start yearning for a king disguised as a peasant and a letter given to the wrong princess. Opera
  
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• The Loneliness Of Elizabeth Bishop

  20-10-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In 1974, Elizabeth Bishop seemed to have all the things a poet could want: a teaching position at Harvard, a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a first-look contract with The New Yorker, which almost always decided to publish her work. And yet she was inconsolably unhappy. 'When you write my epitaph,' Bishop said to the poet Robert Lowell, 'you must say I was the loneliest person who ever lived.'"
  
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• Drug dealer caught with stolen £1m Sir Stanley Spencer painting jailed

  20-10-2017 19:32
  Harry Fisher sentenced to almost nine years for offending including handling stolen goods and conspiracy to supply class A drugsA drug dealer caught with a stolen Sir Stanley Spencer painting worth £1m and £450,000 worth of drugs has been jailed for nearly nine years. Harry Fisher, 28, was sentenced to eight years and eight months in prison at Kingston crown court on Friday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs, acquiring criminal property, and handling stolen g
  
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• What It's Like To Spend Two Years In 'Hamilton'

  20-10-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Thayne Jasperson, who plays the British loyalist Samuel Seabury, is the only cast member still in his original role. Emmy Raver-Lampman, by contrast, started as part of the ensemble on Broadway, left the show in April 2016 for SpongeBob SquarePants, returned as an ensemble member in the Chicago production of Hamilton, and is now playing Angelica Schuyler in the first national tour. She and Jasperson talked to TheaterMania about their experiences with the musical and how it's changed since the s
  
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• Important New Study Reveals Mental Health Toll On Musicians

  20-10-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Previous research showed that more than 70% of musicians have experienced anxiety and panic attacks. The “precariousness and insecurity” of a career in music can be psychologically damaging, the new report claims, resulting in many experiencing “constant stress” around finding work and being financially stable.
  
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• Head ashtrays and pin-up body parts – Alina Szapocznikow: Human Landscapes review

  20-10-2017 18:30
  Hepworth Wakefield
  This revelatory survey of a long-overlooked artist is full of wonders and horrors – from the pouting lip lamps to her cast of her son made just before her untimely deathJulie Christie’s pink mouth blooms in a glowing orb atop an elegant curving stem. These Illuminated Lips, a 1966 series of lamp sculptures by the Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow, repeat in coloured polyester resin, varying from flesh tones to ice white against black. There are also lit-up nipples a
  
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• 200 Aboriginal Artworks Donated to U.S. Institutions by Dennis and Debra Scholl

  20-10-2017 18:29 via artnews.com
  The Frost Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Nevada Museum of Art will share the works. Read More
  
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• The Chapmans go to war, photographers turn feral and Cézanne blows us away

  20-10-2017 18:05
  Gateshead has a dream, Paris gets a sex sculpture and digital artists hack the gallery system – all in your weekly dispatchCézanne Portraits
  The searching and profound portraits of Paul Cézanne are the greatest painted in modern times.
  • National Portrait Gallery, London, 26 October to 11 February. Continue reading...
  
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• Minneapolis Police Dept. To Start Running Bookmobiles

  20-10-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Community policing officers will carry books while they are making their rounds on the city's North and South sides. They'll still respond to certain emergencies, but won't be dispatched to calls for help, freeing them up to visit neighborhoods without libraries and give away books to anyone who wants them. The program is the first of its kind in the country, organizers say."
  
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• You Should “Know Yourself”? Um, Not Necessarily A Great Idea

  20-10-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This whole ‘knowing thyself’ business is not as simple as it seems. In fact, it might be a serious philosophical muddle – not to say bad advice.
  
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• Estate of Jane Freilicher Is Now Represented by Paul Kasmin Gallery

  20-10-2017 17:05 via artnews.com
  The painter's work had previously been shown at Tibor de Nagy Gallery. Read More
  
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• Mary Cochran, Dancer With Paul Taylor And Chair Of Dance At Barnard, Dead At 54

  20-10-2017 16:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Known for what Dance magazine called "her verve, charm and daring," Cochran performed with the Paul Taylor Dance Company from 1984 to 1996 and led the well-regarded dance department at Barnard College from 2003 to 2013.
  
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• Pissarro in Norwood, Monet at the Savoy: what the exiled impressionists saw in London

  20-10-2017 16:44
  Many great artists found refuge in London after fleeing tumult in France. Their sensational landscapes – beautifully capturing its streets, waters and winter snows – are the highlight of a major new exhibition at Tate BritainCommemorative plaques on buildings frequently take us by surprise, providing an immediate bridge to the past. This is particularly so with foreign visitors to these shores who gained international reputations. There is a plaque on a house in Ramsgate where Vincen
  
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• Puerto Rico's PBS Station Is Shut Down

  20-10-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sistema TV in San Juan has been taken off the air because, following Hurricane Maria, the university holding its license decided to cease all non-academic activities.
  
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• Brown University's New Orchestra Director 'Relieved Of Duties' Just Before His First Concert

  20-10-2017 16:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'Brandon Keith Brown is no longer serving in the role he took on this summer when he joined the university as visiting assistant professor of music and orchestra conductor,' said Brown spokesman Brian Clark. 'As for the reason, I am not at liberty to disclose details related to personnel, which we do not consider public.'" (That doesn't mean the students won't talk, though.)
  
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• Classical Music Has Its Own Bunch Of Mini-Harvey Weinsteins

  20-10-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "One big problem is the mindless adulation bestowed on famous conductors and directors. Such sycophancy doesn't lead just to the tolerance of abuse, it mythologises the misdeeds so that they become part of the mystique surrounding 'the maestro'." (For example, Georg Solti, who'd seduce his way through the female choristers at the Royal Opera house and buy them white fur coats afterward.) And, writes Richard Morrison, "that was decades ago, but what has changed? In one acclaimed present-day ensem
  
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• Inside The Weinstein Company When The Stories About Harvey Broke

  20-10-2017 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As they gathered, someone mentioned that The New Yorker story was up. The assembled employees read in silence. They listened to the tape. They knew that voice too well. Some began to shake, and many of them wept as they contemplated the roles they might have played as accomplices, unwitting or not." Dana Goodyear talks to current and former employees, many of whom insist that they knew Harvey Weinstein was "a bully, a screamer, a yeller, a thrower, a pig - not that he was a rapist."
  
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• This Might Be The Most Appalling Thing Any Woman Has Yet Said About Harvey Weinstein

  20-10-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Russian actress Lyubov Tolkalina said in an interview, "Isn't it beautiful when a man of such great power sexually harasses you? ... What does it matter how you got the part? It's good for everyone: he feels good, they feel good, and most importantly the viewers feel good."
  
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• From the Archives: Parker Tyler on Ruth Asawa, in 1954

  20-10-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  For Tyler, the artist's sculptures suggested a "vital spiritual life." Read More
  
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• Canadian Opera Co. Extends Alexander Neef's Contract To 2026

  20-10-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This means that by 2026, Neef will be the longest-serving General Director of the COC (18 years), after Richard Bradshaw."
  
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• As ISIS Loses Territory, It Steps Up Looting Of Antiquities

  20-10-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Members of IS are definitely involved in sales," says one scholar, "particularly now that the so-called state is rapidly unravelling." However, there's little independently verifiable evidence of the scale of the ISIS trade in stolen antiquities - not to mention the fact that there are plenty of fakes mixed in with the genuine artifacts.
  
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• New York's Chinatown hits back at Omer Fast's 'poverty porn' art exhibition

  20-10-2017 15:00
  The Israeli artist Omer Fast has become embroiled in an argument over whether his exhibition – which resembles a Chinatown storefront – is racistOn Sunday, a group of protesters stormed an art gallery in New York’s Chinatown with signs that read “Chinatown lives are not poverty porn” and “Racist art has no business here”. They stood together to hold up a large, yellow banner that said “Racism Disguised as Art” written in English, Spanish and
  
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• Morning Links: Tom Hanks Short Stories Edition

  20-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Artists on ScreenHuman Flow, the new documentary directed by Ai Weiwei, has been getting raves from critics as it gets ready to hit theaters this weekend. Here’s one taste of the breathless praise: “You’re right not to trust a film … Read More
  
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• This Mosaic From Caligula's Pleasure Boat Spent 45 Years As A Manhattan Coffee Table

  20-10-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 2000-year-old piece was once part of an elaborate mosaic floor in one of the Roman emperor's floating palaces on Lake Nemi south of Rome. Somehow it ended up in the Park Avenue apartment of an antiques dealer. "Last month, prosecutors seized the mosaic, saying they had evidence it had been taken from an Italian museum before World War II."
  
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• What Do Young Ballet Dancers Need? More Interesting Ballets, Says Benjamin Millepied

  20-10-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "These ballet dancers are great and they're ready and what they need is more interesting work. I feel people are playing it safe a lot. If anything, I think it's the choreographers and the directors who need to make an effort for these dancers who have made this art form their passion, and to really be as daring or at least as relevant as some of our peers were when they were commissioning pieces a long time ago."
  
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• When Philadelphia Eliminated Arts Programs From Its Schools, Here's How Local Foundations Stepped Up

  20-10-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Most obviously, the city's financial woes were so calamitous that, funders, most of whom already had extensive footprints in the city, had no choice but to respond en masse. Samuel Johnson's old adage applies here: 'When a man knows he is to be hanged, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' That being said, there's far more to Philadelphia's success than the threat of (figurative) imminent hanging."
  
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• Amazon Moves Into Australia, Which May Not Be Prime Territory

  20-10-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When Borders opened in 2002 across the street from Readings, Melbourne's best-known independent bookseller, retail experts predicted catastrophe for the musty old shop competing with the shiny new chain store. Instead, Australians rejected Borders right into bankruptcy." As Amazon launches its book business there, Damien Cave reports, there's a chance it may not catch on much better than Borders did, thanks to some unique features of the Australian market.
  
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• Upright Citizens Brigade, Famed Improv Troupe, Is Leaving Its Home

  20-10-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The company, founded by Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and Matt Besser and the training ground for many comedians, sketch actors and Saturday Night Live cast members, is moving from its longtime base in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood to the group of Off-Broadway theaters on the far west end of 42nd Street.
  
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• Enough With The Star Actors Playing Hamlet Already!

  20-10-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "If, in any given year, somewhere up and down the UK, you can see a starry production of Hamlet being staged with Big-Name Acclaimed Actors showing off their Big-Name Acclaimed Acting Chops, then the cachet of that role is reduced. No question. It's the basic economics of scarcity: when every Tom (Hiddleston), Dick (Burton) and Jude Law has had a crack at moodily wafting on stage, like a Smiths fan in search of legitimate melancholy, then theatre's great and good might consider that it is time t
  
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• Judy Chicago: 'In the 1960s, I was the only visible woman artist'

  20-10-2017 13:00
  As the Brooklyn Museum explores the process behind the 78-year-old’s defining work, The Dinner Party, she talks about the tough road for women in artWhen artist Judy Chicago was a student at the University of California in 1960, she had one question for her European history professor: “When are we going to learn about great women thinkers?” she asked.Her male professor promised Chicago he would talk about “women’s contributions” in the last class. But he lied
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.19.17

  20-10-2017 10:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Society of the Spectacle
  Does one really need to see Swiss filmmaker Jean-Stéphane Bron's The Paris Opera? ... read more
  AJBlog: Fresh Pencil Published 2017-10-19What's Growing in Albion?
  The title of the new Mike Bartlett/Rupert Goold collaboration at the Almeida Theatre (until 24 November) tells you everything. “Albion” is, after all, just another name for this island, ... read more
  AJBlog: Plain English Published 2017-10-19
   
  
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• Missing murals: the lost Soviet art of the Stans

  20-10-2017 08:30
  Protecting a reminder of a fallen political system is not high on the urban preservation list in Central Asian cities. Countless mosaics have been destroyedToday, many of the cities of the Central Asian Stans are defined by a new “trophy city” architecture meant to reflect modernity and progress, and to glorify the leaders who planned them. Look a bit deeper, though, and many signs of the Soviet past are still there in the architecture and layout of the cities.The Soviet elements of
  
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• Senior Producer

  20-10-2017 06:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Music Center in beautiful downtown Los Angeles is currently in search of a dynamic Senior Producer to join its Programming/Community Engagement team!
  The Music Center is one of the most impressive performing arts centers in the United States. It is also one of the largest. For the past five decades, the Center has provided Los Angeles County with the finest performing arts experiences, acting as both presenter and as host to four world-class organizations: LA Philharmonic, Center Theatre Gro
  
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• Deputy Director for Administration & CFO - Museum of the Moving Image

  20-10-2017 01:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  MoMI seeks a seasoned and collaborative Deputy Director for Administration & CFO to lead the finance, strategic planning, human resources, visitor experience, risk management and administrative functions of the Museum.
  Job Title: DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR ADMINISTRATION & CFO
  FLSA Status: Exempt
  Job Title of the Supervisor: Executive Director
  Job Status: Full-time
  Job Summary: This position ensures sound financial planning and management across all aspects and departments of the Museum. It lea
  
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