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• Kimsooja at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

  28-11-2017 23:04 via artnews.com
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• Do Artists Have Political Responsibilities?

  28-11-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Should a writer be socially engaged? Is it a part of our duty? I always return to the poet and teacher Marie Ponsot: “The duty of the writer is to the welfare of the work.” Not to some political party or cause or ideal—which through making our art more useful might somehow rob it of its integrity, its wonderful, vital uselessness—but simply to the work itself.
  
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• Dirty Looks Brings ‘On Location’ Festival to Los Angeles, Names Seven Board Members

  28-11-2017 22:57 via artnews.com
  The bi-coastal nonprofit Dirty Looks announced that it has added seven new members to its board, expanding the total number to 11. Dirty Looks will also stage the upcoming fourth edition of “On Location,” its month-long queer-film screening series, in … Read More
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• How One Entrepreneur Is Trying To Make More Affordable Artist Studio Space

  28-11-2017 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I wanted to make a protected space,” Andrea Woodner offers, “where they don’t have to be completely bare-knuckled about the commercial environment. Here, they can be artists, think about and show their own work, and use the facility as an artist-run project space.”
  
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• Jens Hoffmann on Leaving the Front Triennial in Cleveland: ‘I Personally Could Not Identify With the Directions It Was Taking’

  28-11-2017 21:33 via artnews.com
  The exhibition's leadership has not commented on the reason for his departure. Read More
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• Is It Females Who Decide What Is Beauty?

  28-11-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The view has long been that males, in their sexual communication, are saying something important about themselves, and it’s up to the females to figure out what that is, to figure out which males are truly attractive and which are not. I argue the other side of the coin. Females aren’t trying to figure out what males are saying. When they mate with a male, by definition, that male is attractive. So females are the deciders. Over evolutionary time, it seems males are trying out a lot
  
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• A Light Touch in Madison Square Park: Erwin Redl Reinterprets Land Art in the Middle of Manhattan

  28-11-2017 20:59 via artnews.com
  Out in the elements, 900 orbs flush with white light dangle above the ground. Read More
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• American Federation of Arts Names Frances Wu Giarratano Director of Exhibitions

  28-11-2017 20:35 via artnews.com
  She will be responsible for organizing the organization's international exhibitions. Read More
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• SpongeBob, The Broadway Musical? There's A Lot Riding On This

  28-11-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It has spawned two feature films, with a third on the way, and has generated more than $13 billion in retail merchandise sales. adapting family entertainment to Broadway has brought mixed results, especially when not from Disney. Recent examples include “Matilda” (a hit), “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (a failure) and two outright bombs, “Seussical” and “Shrek the Musical” (though both have ended up
  
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• This Woman Is The Reason There's A Video Archive Of 4,000 Broadway And Off-Broadway Productions

  28-11-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How Betty Corwin, now 97, corralled and cajoled producers, unions, and librarians to create, and run for 31 years, the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
  
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• How Reuters Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Find And Write News

  28-11-2017 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Once a conversation or rumor is potentially identified as news, an important consideration is its veracity. To determine this, Tracer looks for the source by identifying the earliest tweet in the conversation that mentions the topic and any sites it points to. It then consults a database listing known producers of fake news, such as the National Report, or satirical news sites such as The Onion. Finally, the system writes a headline and summary and distributes the news throughout the
  
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• Artist Stephen Knapp, Known For His 'Lightpaintings', Dead At 70

  28-11-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[He] used specially treated pieces of glass that he mounted on walls and in metal braces to refract and reflect dazzling beams of color." As he once told an interviewer, "Instead of using paint to capture light, I'm actually painting with light, taking it a giant step forward."
  
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• Whitney Acquires 32 Works from 2017 Biennial, Including Samara Golden and Raúl de Nieves Pieces

  28-11-2017 15:41 via artnews.com
  First-time additions to the collection include Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Shara Hughes, Carrie Moyer, Puppies Puppies and Jessie Reeves. Read More
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• Morning Links: Squiggly Manhattan Skyline Edition

  28-11-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• On Eve of Art Basel Miami Beach’s Booze-Soaked Bacchanal, Video Looks at Artist/Dealer/ARTnews Memoirist’s ‘Dry Years’

  28-11-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
  The Rental Gallery proprietor has made a video ahead of a solo booth of his work at NADA Miami Beach.Read More
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• Was there more to Egyptian surrealism than suggestive mosques and rotten meat?

  28-11-2017 00:45
  The Tate wants to wrestle surrealism away from the clutches of the west. But this show’s dream visions and bodily contortions can’t change the fact that everyone cringed before the might of Paris The BBC’s Civilisations will be the most ambitious cultural television series since the run of classics that began in 1969 with Civilisation and climaxed with The Shock of the New in 1980. It will also be the most truly global history of art ever told. As a consultant on this epic proj
  
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• Jens Hoffmann ‘Departing’ as Co-Artistic Director of Front Triennial in Cleveland

  28-11-2017 00:41 via artnews.com
  The curator is currently scheduled to organize biennials in Honolulu and Indianapolis. Read More
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