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• Jill Magid Wins Biannual $50,000 Calder Prize

  19-01-2018 23:08 via artnews.com
  The award also includes a residency at Alexander Calder's former residence in Connecticut.Read More
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• Can't Take A Joke? Violinist Sues Over Satire

  19-01-2018 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Over the last few days, the classical music media has become aware of a small but telling scandal. A Berlin-based concert curator, dramaturg, and VAN contributor named Arno Lücker published a shred on his blog. The video, part of a mashup genre in which new audio tracks are added to videos so that musicians appear to be playing embarrassingly badly, features the violinist Daniel Hope, accompanied by the pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi. Hope now wants to haul Lücker into court."
  
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• Masterpieces from the Margins: The Outsider Art Fair Triumphs in New York

  19-01-2018 21:26 via artnews.com
  The 26th edition of the fair continues through Sunday. Read More
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• Norman Lebrecht: Classical Music's Secrecy Abets Abuse

  19-01-2018 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Classical music conducts its business behind a screen of secrets, lies and euphemisms. A maestro is never absent without leave, only ‘indisposed’. No maestro ever gets fired. He becomes Emeritus. Truth gets buried beneath a dungheap of flummery. The real reason for the recent departure of at least one classical performer in this country will not be publicly explained, even though it is well known backstage. The code of silence in classical music is as tight as Sicilian omertà
  
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• Social Media "Influencers"? Luxury Hotel Says Bug Off

  19-01-2018 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Following the backlash received after asking an unidentified blogger to pay for a hotel room, I have taken the decision to ban all bloggers from our hotel and cafe,” he wrote.
  
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• Margaret Lee at Marlborough Contemporary, London

  19-01-2018 20:26 via artnews.com
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• Want To Get Better At Understanding Art? Read Less, Look More

  19-01-2018 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Most of the final-year art history students I spoke to recently at one of the UK’s leading universities had heard about the Salvator Mundi, or at least its price. But when I put an image of a well-known Titian on the screen, only one of them (of around 40) could identify the artist. I asked what they had all been doing for the past few years; “reading” came the unenthusiastic answer."
  
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• From the Archives: Studio Museum in Harlem Creates a ‘Home for the Evolving Black Esthetic,’ in 1973

  19-01-2018 19:48 via artnews.com
  "But why try for the Met, when black artists can show here?" Read More
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• David Setford Named Executive Director of Tacoma Art Museum

  19-01-2018 19:44 via artnews.com
  He was executive director of the Spanish Colonial Arts Society and Museum of Spanish Colonial Art in Santa Fe. Read More
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• Study: Students Are More Attentive After Learning Outdoors

  19-01-2018 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A carefully designed 10-week study found outdoor lessons "boost subsequent classroom engagement, and boost it a great deal," writes a research team led by Ming Kuo of the University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign. "After a lesson in nature, teachers were able to teach for almost twice as long without having to interrupt instruction to redirect students' attention."
  
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• What Made Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts Such A Hit?

  19-01-2018 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "On January 18, 1958, the first Leonard Bernstein 'Young People's Concert' was broadcast live on television. Through the 1960s, the programs took off and were seen in 40 countries, alongside American exports The Flintstones and Bonanza. WNYC's Sara Fishko considers Bernstein's TV-friendly presence, in this episode of Fishko Files." (audio)
  
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• Chana Budgazad Sheldon to Direct Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami

  19-01-2018 19:00 via artnews.com
  She had previously been the director and national program adviser of ProjectArt. Read More
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• Leila Josefowicz's Brand Of Maverick Career

  19-01-2018 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  She walks an interesting line between unconventionality and orthodoxy. Apart from Kaija Saariaho, whose music she played at her Kennedy Center recital in November, most of her favorite composers are white and male; she reacts vehemently to the idea of selecting a composer by any criteria other than her own visceral response (like, for instance, gender).
  
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• When Man Ray Hitched A Ride To L.A. And Stayed

  19-01-2018 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Many within Hollywood, like Albert Lewin, director of The Moon and Sixpence, were keen to work with the famed surrealist, yet these offers of collaboration rarely came to much. 'Man Ray was very firm,' [curator Max] Teicher says. 'If he was going to do a film, he was going to do everything: the lighting, the set design, everything. They [Hollywood insiders] looked at him like he was crazy, because that's not how Hollywood worked."
  
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• Lumiere London light festival - in pictures

  19-01-2018 17:49
  More than 50 public art installations are on display this weekend for the second year of the light festival in the UK’s capital. Buildings including Westminster Abbey and the National Theatre have been illuminated as part of the event, as works by artists from across the world fill the nighttime streets of London with light and colour Continue reading...
  
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• Saltz: Border Wall Prototypes Are Minimalist Art

  19-01-2018 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jerry Saltz: "As with much minimalism, these prototypes are hard-edged geometry and impervious materials brought into the American landscape of the West and arranged to impose order, inspire awe, and try to manage and align mystic political forces — and to make something that while instantly obsolete, like some useless Stalin Gulag project, meant to last forever. Trump has made something that evokes a real monument — one that may correctly be said to stand for everything he believes
  
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• Frank Lloyd Wright Building Bulldozed In Montana

  19-01-2018 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The owner of a historic Frank Lloyd Wright building in Whitefish, Montana razed the structure last week, immediately after last-minute negotiations with preservationists attempting to buy it fell through. Designed in 1958 - one year before Wright's death - as a medical clinic, the 5,000-square-foot building is the first Wright-designed one to be demolished in over 40 years."
  
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• Banksy painting saved from derelict container on Dungeness beach

  19-01-2018 16:53
  Image, which had been painted over, was at risk after site owners EDF Energy revealed plans to clean up the Kent beachAn authentic Banksy image has been recovered from a derelict container on Dungeness beach in Kent after fears it could be destroyed by the landowners. Related: Banksy artworks up for auction in New York – in picturesContinue reading...
  
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• Elena Ferrante Is Becoming A Newspaper Columnist (In English!)

  19-01-2018 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Now, in her weekly column for the Guardian's Weekend magazine, Ferrante will share her thoughts on a wide range of topics, including childhood, ageing, gender and, in her debut article, first love. ... The column will be translated by Ferrante's regular collaborator Ann Goldstein."
  
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• What A Generation Of Broadway Choreographers Learned Dancing In 'Fosse'

  19-01-2018 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Andy Blankenbuehler, Sergio Trujillo, Josh Rhodes, and Christopher Gattelli all performed in the 1999 show assembled from the late Bob Fosse's choreography. "[They] didn't appropriate the distinctive Fosse style. But it's more than happenstance that the show produced this bumper crop of choreographers. Ask them why, and they make the school analogy."
  
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• Statues have had their day. Let’s make our monuments memorable | Julian Baggini

  19-01-2018 15:36
  Statues of women in Westminster are long overdue. But new monuments should spark reflection, not genuflectionHistory is not only written by the winners, it’s carved and cast in their image, too. That’s why cold, hard lumps of stone and bronze have a remarkable capacity to fire the passions. Campaigns to erect statues or tear them down are part of a wider cultural conflict, as the latest skirmish clearly demonstrates. Related: Toppling statues? Here’s why Nelson’s column s
  
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• Piece Of 'Turandot' Set Falls On Chorus; Two Hospitalized

  19-01-2018 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A piece of scenography fell during a performance of Turandot [at the Teatro Regio] in Turin last night, hitting two chorus members who were rushed to hospital. The incident occurred at the end of the second act as the curtain closed and a loud crash was heard in the auditorium."
  
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• The rural bites back, Gursky triumphs and Bridget Riley keeps it trippy – the week in art

  19-01-2018 15:18
  Capitalism’s great chronicler stuns the Hayward, it’s a carnival of the rural in Somerset, and the Bayeux tapestry is coming – all in your weekly dispatchAndreas Gursky
  Sublime images of the capitalist world by an epic artist of modern life. Gursky raises photography to the level of history painting.
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• England's Historic Cathedrals At 'Severe Financial Risk'

  19-01-2018 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Cathedrals, which attract more than 10 million visitors a year, face spiralling costs of running, repairing and maintaining their buildings." An investigation launched by the Church of England's two archbishops found a "confusion of governance and management [that] has increased both operational and financial risks."
  
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• Meditating Soldiers, a Giant Crossword Puzzle, and Yoga Mat Toilet Paper: Maryam Jafri on Her Exhibition ‘War on Wellness’

  19-01-2018 15:15 via artnews.com
  The show is on view at Kai Matsumiya gallery in New York. Read More
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• Pacifica Radio Seeks Emergency Loan To Avoid Collapse

  19-01-2018 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[The Pacifica Foundation] is at risk of asset seizure following a judgment in October that ordered the network to pay $1.8 million in back rent plus interest to the Empire State Realty Trust. The rent is for the transmitter of WBAI, Pacifica's New York City station. ... Pacifica's total debt is roughly $8 million, including roughly $2.4 million to Democracy Now! Productions. The network is also in arrears for pension payments."
  
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• Morning Links: The James Dean of Postwar American Art Edition

  19-01-2018 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Can A Gay French Countertenor Help Fix Classical Music's Diversity Problem?

  19-01-2018 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A reporter visits Philippe Jaroussky's music academy in the banlieues of Paris, where children from working-class and immigrant families get free music instruction.
  
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• John Barton, Co-Founder Of Royal Shakespeare Company, Dead At 89

  19-01-2018 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As a playwright, with two ten-play dramatic cycles inspired by classical Greek drama to his credit, he enlarged the ambition and dimensions of theatre ... Through his work as a director, and above all as a teacher, [he] changed the way we play and hear Shakespeare. His editing and literary carpentering restored neglected Shakespeare plays to the theatrical canon. He was a dramaturg, a literary manager, before the term was imported from the theatrical world of Bertolt Brecht."
  
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• Hugh Wilson, 74, Created 'WKRP In Cincinnati' And Directed 'Police Academy' And 'The First Wives' Club'

  19-01-2018 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mr. Wilson worked his way into comedy writing after starting out in advertising, and in 1978 he graduated from writer to creator when WKRP made its debut. ... [He] introduced a different brand of misfits in Police Academy, his first feature-film directing assignment, for which he was also one of the screenwriters."
  
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• London's Southbank Centre Is Losing Its Artistic Director

  19-01-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Jude Kelly, one of the UK's longest-serving and highest-profile arts leaders, is stepping down from the Southbank Centre after 12 years. ... Kelly said she wanted to concentrate on the WOW - Women of the World festival she founded eight years ago, seeing its future as 'a global movement'."
  
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• Can A 'Daily Show'-Style TV Series Help Strengthen Democracy In Nigeria?

  19-01-2018 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Reporter Adrian Chen travels to Lagos to watch the development and debut of The Other News. a show which (so an American consultant working on it hoped), "by satirizing a kind of journalism that doesn't really exist in Nigeria, ... could actually help bring it about."
  
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• V&A Museum's Scottish Satellite Gets September Opening Date

  19-01-2018 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The £80m [Victoria and Albert] Museum Of Design Dundee on the banks of the Tay, housed in a dazzling building inspired by cliffs on the east coast of Scotland, is to open [on 15] September. Details were announced on Thursday for what will be the V&A's first outpost outside London, and Scotland's first design museum."
  
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• Will Boston's $500m art heist ever be solved?

  19-01-2018 12:30
  A recent extension to the $10m reward has led to renewed interest, and theories, about the 1990 robbery of major artworksOn 18 March 1990 two police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston – they told security they were responding to a late-night disturbance and asked to be let in. The guard allowed the cops in through the employee entrance but got a surprise – they were art thieves. After handcuffing the two guards, they stole 13 famous artworks by Rembrandt,
  
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• William Blake’s A Vision of the Last Judgement: a moment of epiphany

  19-01-2018 10:59
  The poet and artist presents his depiction of a religious theme with a great, swirling energyPerfect symmetry...As the “vision” in its title suggests, this is a typically personal take on the Last Judgment by the Romantic outlier poet and artist. It follows a traditional, symmetrical model: Christ is enthroned in heaven, with masses of bodies ascending to his right, and falling from his left.God complex...As with other depictions of the religious theme, part of its appeal is the over
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.18.18

  19-01-2018 06:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ken Burns, Collector, Gets An ExhibitionThere’s nothing like a celebrity, even a person behind the camera instead of in front of it, to attract attention – sometimes even deservedly so. I think that is the case for an exhibition opening Friday, ... read more>AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2018-01-18Women in jazz journalism on gender issues, in NYC MLK weekendDr. Martin Luther King Jr. weekend '18 was a big one for jazz in NYC, with the first Jazz Congress at Jazz at L
  
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• Ed Moses, Pioneering L.A. Painter and Paragon of the California Art Scene, Dies at 91

  19-01-2018 00:42 via artnews.com
  He was one of the most important artists to show at Ferus Gallery and other West Coast institutions. Read More
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• Prestigious Publisher Of Poetry Puts Poetry Publishing On "Hiatus"

  19-01-2018 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Poetry is changing, and the way people read is changing,” Alana Wilcox, editorial director of Coach House, told the Star. “We live in a Twitter world now — what does that mean for poetry?” Coach House still has six poetry titles planned for publication this year and another six for 2019.
  
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