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• Shadaken Projects Announces Participants in First New York-Based Painting Fellowship Program

  13-12-2017 22:41 via artnews.com
  Paint School will offer 12 artists classes in the city. Read More
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• Getty Research Institute Acquires Mary Kelly Archive

  13-12-2017 22:41 via artnews.com
  The archive includes documents, ephemera, and materials related to work the artist made between 1968 and 2014. Read More
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• ‘Voyage,’ curated by Alexandre da Cunha, at Galeria Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo

  13-12-2017 22:32 via artnews.com
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• Ultra Rare Copies of Prince’s ‘Black Album’ Selling for $15,000

  13-12-2017 22:24 via artnews.com
  The Purple One ordered all copies of it destroyed after deeming it "evil." Read More
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• As Attorney General’s Investigation Continues, Judge Extends Pause on Berkshire Museum Sale

  13-12-2017 22:06 via artnews.com
  The Massachusetts institution criticized the decision. Read More
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• National Endowment for the Humanities Awards $12.8 Million in Project Grants

  13-12-2017 21:38 via artnews.com
  More than $350,000 has been awarded to arts institutions. Read More
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• Isuma Will Represent Canada at the 2019 Venice Biennale

  13-12-2017 20:35 via artnews.com
  The collective's work was shown in the film section of Documenta 14. Read More
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• A Short Story Exposes Huge Gaps In The New Universe Of Literary Criticism

  13-12-2017 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In this case, the media has been thrust in the position of the literary critic, drawing lines between the artwork and the broader culture. This isn’t a bad development, exactly—it’s great that a short story is making headlines. But it is also worth noting that the boundaries of literary criticism, at least as they are traditionally conceived, are being exceeded across the internet. The response to “Cat Person” is the latest evidence that we have entered new territor
  
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• ‘We’re Across the Street From the Carlyle!’ Clearing Gallery’s Olivier Babin on His New Space on the Upper East Side

  13-12-2017 20:28 via artnews.com
  The outfit is adding a third branch, which currently is located in Bushwick and Brussels. Read More
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• Another Green World: Memories of Much Hadham and a Visit to Henry Moore’s Studios and Gardens

  13-12-2017 20:25 via artnews.com
  The artist's onetime stomping ground, filled with his art, as well as objects he collected, is a moving self-portrait. Read More
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• How Scammers Are Laundering Bitcoin Through iTunes

  13-12-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some schemers are essentially laundering their bitcoins through song purchases on Apple-owned media store iTunes. Although it’s unlikely to be widespread, the approach results in a legitimate payment from Apple—meaning fraudsters are then largely free to use their ill-gotten gains however they see fit.
  
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• The Double Agent Classical Music Inside The New York Times

  13-12-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  John G. Briggs Jr. was a respected classical music critic and cultural reporter for the Times. But he had a second professional life that he hid from his bosses in New York. Writing under a pseudonym for a prominent South Carolina newspaper, the Times journalist delivered fire-breathing, race-baiting and occasionally anti-Semitic screeds attacking the “liberal” press and its alleged communist ties.
  
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• Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta Will Organize 2019 Whitney Biennial

  13-12-2017 19:30 via artnews.com
  Both are curators at the institution. Read More
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• The top 10 photography exhibitions of 2017

  13-12-2017 19:06
  The refugee crisis became a sci-fi dystopia, a handful of dust took us to the moon and back, a Polish pioneer had suggestive fun with hot dogs and love returned to the Left Bank. Our critic picks his 2017 highlightsContinue reading...
  
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• The Neuroscience Of Changing Your Mind

  13-12-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Scientists have long accepted that our ability to abruptly stop or modify a planned behavior is controlled via a single region within the brain's prefrontal cortex, an area involved in planning and other higher mental functions." Now it seems that this consensus among scientists was, if not wrong, greatly oversimplified.
  
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• Why Are The Met's Biggest Stars Dropping Out Of The New "Tosco" Production?

  13-12-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Since the Met first announced the new “Tosca” 10 months ago, the David McVicar production has lost its star tenor, Jonas Kaufmann; the soprano singing the title role, Kristine Opolais; its conductor, Andris Nelsons, who is married to Ms. Opolais; and his replacement, James Levine, who was suspended this month after being accused of sexual misconduct. Now the last remaining star of the originally-announced cast has withdrawn.
  
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• The New Television Transmission Standard That May Make Us All Upgrade Our TV Sets *Again*

  13-12-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The vote on that standard" - called ATSC 3.0 - "was nearly as controversial as the net neutrality rollback, but far fewer people are talking about it. So let's talk about it - and put it in context with the last time the federal government pushed us to upgrade our TVs."
  
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• The Advisors Who Help The IRS Value Art

  13-12-2017 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To be accurately taxed, an artwork needs to be accurately valued, and the owner who has to pay the tax can’t be expected to provide the last word. When an artwork is sold outright, the Internal Revenue Service needs no help in determining how much to tax; it has the purchase price and the sale price and it knows how to subtract. (The maximum federal tax rate on profits from the sale of art and collectibles is 28 percent, higher than the 15 to 20 percent for stocks.) Things get trickie
  
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• Biennale of Sydney Reveals Full Artist List for 2018 Edition

  13-12-2017 17:04 via artnews.com
  Ai Weiwei, Ryan Gander, Simryn Gill, and Samson Young are among those participating. Read More
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• The Dancer Who Made Art Nouveau Into A Performing Art

  13-12-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The [Paris] Exposition Universelle of 1900 marked the height of Art Nouveau and its flowing, feminine subjects inspired by nature. [Loïe] Fuller herself personified the movement, with performances that incorporated swirling yards of silk attached to bamboo wands sewn into her sleeves."
  
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• Artist hangs refugees' clothing in London church to highlight crisis

  13-12-2017 16:41
  Installation by Arabella Dorman at St James’s in Piccadilly uses 700 items salvaged from Greek island of Lesbos A baby’s bright red bib emblazoned with the words “My 1st Christmas Ever!” Pyjama tops with sleeve ends intertwined like holding hands. A pair of jeans upside down as though their owner is falling from a height. Shoes, socks, mittens, hats. A long, winding, blue patterned scarf.These are among 700 items of refugees’ clothing salvaged from beaches and olive
  
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• When Hoop Skirts Were New, Women Actually Saw Them As Liberating

  13-12-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It's true: The hoop skirt has aged poorly. Its connotations 150 years post-heyday are antiquated at best, antagonistic at worst. From an inside view, though, this 'choreography of exclusion' was anything but. Just the opposite, in fact: Its rebellion was quiet, subdued, and feminine, but a rebellion nonetheless. The skirts have lived long enough to become a villain of our racial imagination. To the women who wore them, they were heroic."
  
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• If You Own A Work Of Art, Are You Allowed To Eat It?

  13-12-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It's unlikely that any serious collectors have pondered this rather Seussian question - but it did pop up on Reddit last month, and we decided to get to the bottom of it. The answer, as with most things, is: It depends."
  
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• Guggenheim Names Hugo Boss Prize 2018 Short List

  13-12-2017 15:57 via artnews.com
  The artists nominated for the $100,000 award include Wu Tsang and Frances Stark. Read More
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• A New Translation Of The New Testament Aims To Be As Messy As The Original

  13-12-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The New Testament, after all, is not a store of ancient wonders like the Hebrew Bible. It's a grab bag of reportage, rumor, folk memory, and on-the-hoof mysticism produced by regular people, everyday babblers and clunkers, under the pressure of a supremely irregular event - namely, the life and death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So that, says [David Bentley] Hart, is what it should sound like." ("Where an author has written bad Greek, writes Hart, "I have written bad English.")
  
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• Neil LaBute, Katori Hall, Quiara Alegría Hudes, And Other Playwrights On How They Think Of Audiences

  13-12-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hudes: "If you write solely to suit the audience, you'll be chasing your tail. That being said, I study them very closely - where they laugh, where they lean in, where they 'go fishing' in their minds."LaBute: "I want to get close to them and make them feel the events in a real way - to break the fourth wall, to look them squarely in the eye, and challenge them to leave, but force them to stay."
  
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• Four Factors Make The Classical Music World Ripe For Sexual Abuse

  13-12-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Classical music institutions like the Met don't have to dig very deep in order to understand where things went wrong. Through decades of research, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center - which rose out of the feminist rape crisis movement of the 1970s - has identified five problematic norms that contribute to an environment in which sexual violence takes place. As a workplace and as an art form, classical music is at risk in four of them."
  
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• Morning Links: Voyager Space Probe Edition

  13-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Why The Bad Sex In Fiction Award Is Just A Bad Idea

  13-12-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Ultimately, the whole project gives the impression of being based on two simplistic and very flawed premises: 1) you can judge a sex scene ripped from context, and 2) a good sex scene evokes not amusement, disdain, or pity but rather arousal."
  
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• Dances With Wheelchairs: Inside AXIS, The Company That Puts Disabled And Able-Bodied Dancers Side By Side

  13-12-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Making the case for a serious art form for dancers who use wheelchairs meant a lot of advocacy. ... 'The first 10 years we spent just trying to convince people in the bigger dance world, the funding world, that what we were doing wasn't 'just therapy,'' [said AXIS co-founder Judith Smith]. 'We really wanted to be taken seriously as a dance company.' ... Today, AXIS's work is fairly well known within the field of contemporary dance. It is less visible, however, to the general public for many rea
  
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• Why The Getty Center's Art Was Safest Inside The Getty, No Matter How Close The Fires Got

  13-12-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Visitors come to the Getty Center in Los Angeles to see Vincent van Gogh's irises and other great works. What they don't see is the reason that these masterpieces could stay put while thousands in Southern California had to evacuate as multiple fires raged in recent days, one of which came within thousands of feet of the museum. The Getty's architect, Richard Meier, built fire resistance into the billion-dollar complex."
  
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• 'Game Of Thrones' Tourists Are Devouring Dubrovnik

  13-12-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Since 2011, when the show first premiered on HBO, tourism in Dubrovnik has seen an increase of 9 to 12 percent annually" - with numbers up to 10,000 or more a day, over 1 million a year in a town of 43,000 people. "While the show's notoriety is good news for Dubrovnik's economy, 80 percent of which relies on tourism, UNESCO has warned that Old Town Dubrovnik, a World Heritage Site, cannot accommodate this crush of newcomers. Some residents have had enough, too."
  
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• Bruce Brown, Documentary Filmmaker Who Directed 'Endless Summer', Dead At 80

  13-12-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Hailed as 'the Bergman of the boards' and 'the Fellini of the foam,' Mr. Brown brought next to no professional training but an abundance of passion to his art form, which he used to popularize surfing far beyond the coastlines of California."
  
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• Enrico Castellani, 87, Leading Artist In European Post-War Avant-Garde

  13-12-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[He] participated in the swirl of movements and self-proclaimed groups, some armed with manifestoes, that flourished on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 1950s and '60s. ... Many of these artists emphasized everyday materials and processes; most rejected the expression of subjectivity and emotion that prevailed in the gestural abstract painting and figurative sculpture that immediately followed World War II."
  
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• Big-nosed Jesus and God as a second-rate Santa: the worst Christian art

  13-12-2017 12:00
  A puff-cheeked baby Jesus, an upside-down apostle, a sub-Santa God … our writer revels in Wonder Beyond Belief, a new book celebrating the glorious weirdness of revered Christian artThere is a particularly ugly nutwood carving of the infant Jesus dating from 1320. The nose is wider than it is long and the lower lip is pulled up, emphasising a ball-shaped chin and unpleasantly globular cheeks. Only a mother could believe this cherub beautiful, says Navid Kermani, who also takes issue with
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.12.17

  13-12-2017 10:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  More “Mundi” Conundrums: Exactly Who Paid the Leonardo’s Princely Price (and why)?
  In my Friday post about those said to have “acquired” the $450.3-million Leonardo da Vinci, I suggested that the convoluted Salvator Mundi story was still developing and hard to predict. Sure enough, ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-12-12Janine Jansen at Carnegie Hall without veneer – or microphones breathing down her neck
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• Jonathan Jones's top 10 art exhibitions of 2017

  13-12-2017 08:00
  The inventor of modern art caps an amazing year of drawings by old masters, vast 20th-century retrospectives and the return of the YBAs
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  Not many art exhibitions are truly important. They may be exciting, entertaining, absorbing – but when the dust settles and the posters are covered up with ads for the next unmissable show, nothing has really changed. This is one of the rare exceptions. Paul Cézanne, who died in 1906, has been iconic ever since Picasso and
  
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• Five Dancers Accuse Peter Martins Of Physical Abuse

  13-12-2017 01:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mr. Martins has long been known to have intimate relationships with dancers, as well as a quick, volcanic temper. That he was able to act so freely, his critics say, points to dysfunctional power relationships between Mr. Martins and his employees, and between him and City Ballet’s management, which at times seems to have looked the other way.
  
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• The Best New Architecture Of 2017

  13-12-2017 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "This was the year when postmodernism, for long derided as the gimcrack style of shyster capitalists of the 1980s, was well and truly rehabilitated. (In this it followed on the heels of brutalism, which was long derided as the inhuman style of arrogant socialists of the 1960s.) Historic England started listing postmodern works. Books were published. Playful reincarnations of the style – post-postmodernism, perhaps – appeared at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. In truth, the la
  
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