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• Toronto Looks At What It Takes To Help Independent Theatre

  08-11-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The big message is that many of the hundreds of professionals in Toronto’s indie scene want to stay there, that it’s not necessarily somewhere people pass through on their way to full-time jobs in building-based theatre companies. So how to make indie theatre careers sustainable is a crucial question."
  
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• Zadie Smith: What Does It Mean To Be New York Anymore?

  08-11-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Like many a New Yorker right now I talk a good game but my mind is scattered, disordered. To me, the city itself feels scattered, out of sorts; certainly carrying on like London, like Paris, but also, like those places, newly fearful, continuing with its routines while simultaneously wondering whether it still wants to, considering decamping to the countryside while being repulsed by that same thought—oh, and a ragbag of other random thoughts and anecdotes that will now converge in the ne
  
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• What Music Do You Most Want To Hear On Your Deathbed?

  08-11-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Music therapists often recommend songs with a personal association: the first dance from the patient’s wedding, a song their mother used to hum. When Joey Ramone left us in 2001, he was listening to U2’s In a Little While. A professional psychic in Florida has provided a list of songs “people seem to universally enjoy”. They range from Celine Dion to Enya to Susan Boyle – so it might also be worth specifying what music you don’t want to hear on your deathbed.
  
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• Benjamin Genocchio Out as Executive Director of the Armory Show Amid Allegations of Sexual Harassment [Updated]

  08-11-2017 21:27 via artnews.com
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• Benjamin Genocchio Out as Executive Director of the Armory Show Amid Allegations of Sexual Harassment

  08-11-2017 21:27 via artnews.com
  Benjamin Genocchio is no longer executive director of the Armory Show, ARTnews has learned. The shake-up comes hours after the New York Times published a story in which multiple women accused Genocchio of sexual harassment, with allegations ranging from what … Read More
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• Macron hails power of beauty as Louvre opens in Abu Dhabi

  08-11-2017 20:47
  French president visits new Louvre museum in United Arab Emirates amid heightened tensions in Middle EastThe French president, Emmanuel Macron, has hailed the new Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi as an example of how beauty can “fight against the discourses of hatred”, as the oil-rich capital of the United Arab Emirates inaugurated its elaborate new cultural showpiece at a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East.Related: Louvre Abu Dhabi: Jean Nouvel's spectacular palace of culture
  
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• Macron hails Louvre Abu Dhabi as example of beauty fighting 'discourses of hatred'

  08-11-2017 20:47
  French president visits new Louvre museum in United Arab Emirates amid heightened tensions in Middle EastThe French president Emmanuel Macron has hailed the new Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi as an example of how beauty can “fight against the discourses of hatred” as the oil-rich capital of the United Arab Emirates inaugurated its elaborate new cultural showpiece at a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East.
  After 10 years of controversy and delays – including allegations of
  
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• Dead grasshopper discovered in Vincent van Gogh painting

  08-11-2017 19:36
  A conservator came across the tiny insect submerged in paint while looking at Van Gogh’s Olive Trees with a microscopeArt conservators dream of finding hidden secrets in the masterpieces they look after. Rarely do they expect to find a dead grasshopper.Curators at the Nelson-Atkins museum of art in Kansas City said they discovered the dead insect in one of its star paintings, Vincent Van Gogh’s Olive Trees, when it was being scanned as part of the research for a catalogue of its Fren
  
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• Sidney Nolan auction: selections from the 118 paintings – in pictures

  08-11-2017 18:00
  When Lady Mary Nolan died last year, she left behind hundreds of works by her late husband, the Australian master Sidney Nolan, whose estate she had managed since his death 25 years ago. In an auction that coincides with the centenary of Nolan’s birth, the public are invited to bid for 118 of his pieces, ranging from crayon works to oil paintings. The collection includes an unprecedented 22 paintings of Ned Kelly, with some bidding starting as low as $3,000. ‘This auction shows us ag
  
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• Nemesio Antúnez at Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles

  08-11-2017 17:50 via artnews.com
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• Ken Currie: Rictus review – grisly art games with a serious moral purpose

  08-11-2017 17:44
  Flowers Gallery, LondonTrue shock value is rare these days, but these gruesome yet skilled paintings of Hiroshima victims and macabre medical experiments will give you the shuddersIt is getting hard for artists to shock anyone. Provocateurs such as Jake and Dinos Chapman seem sadly adrift in today’s deeply strange world when a sculpture of a suicide vest elicits only a brief shrug among the much more surreal stuff reality keeps chucking at us. Ken Currie deserves credit for breaking throug
  
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• A First Look Inside the Louvre Abu Dhabi

  08-11-2017 17:20 via artnews.com
  The museum will opens its doors to the public this weekend. Read More
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• Morning Links: $10,000 Britney Spears Painting Edition

  08-11-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Josh Smith Now Shows With David Zwirner

  08-11-2017 14:30 via artnews.com
  The artist had previously shown in New York with Luhring Augustine. Read More
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• Museum of Arts and Design Creates $50,000 Artist Prize

  08-11-2017 02:30 via artnews.com
  The first winner will be announced in fall 2018. Read More
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• Judge Denies Motion to Halt Berkshire Museum Sale at Sotheby’s

  08-11-2017 00:01 via artnews.com
  Work donated to the museum by Norman Rockwell is scheduled to go up for sale on November 13 at the auction house. Read More
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