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• The Meaning Of Art: To Point Out Evil

  18-07-2022 23:15 via thepointmag.com
  
  I am using the word “evil” to encompass the whole range of negative human experience, from being wronged, to doing wrong, to sheer bad luck. This list of evils is also a list of the essential ingredients of narrative fiction. – The Point
  
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• Claes Oldenburg obituary

  18-07-2022 22:25
  
  Pop artist famed for his ‘soft sculptures’ and outsized monuments to everyday objectsHad the ideas of Claes Oldenburg been realised, Piccadilly Circus would have had as its hub not a 19th-century sculpture of Eros but a cluster of 8m-high orange lipsticks or a skyscraper-sized pair of women’s knees. Both projects were imagined for the site by the Swedish-American artist and sculptor, who has died at the age of 93.In London in 1966, Oldenburg found himself captivated by what he
  
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• How NFTs Are Upending The Art World

  18-07-2022 21:44 via altaonline.com
  
  This so-called revolution strikes at something many hold sacred: the relationship between artist and art, the meaning in an act of creation. What’s happening now is larger than the traditional tension between art and commerce, and it’s occurring at internet speed.– Alta
  
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• The Complicated Remaking Of Oscar Hammerstein

  18-07-2022 21:02 via newyorker.com
  
  Of all the great makers of the American song, none has undergone so drastic a change in educated—O.K., call it “élite”—opinion in the past twenty years as Hammerstein. –The New Yorker
  
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• Claes Oldenburg’s most incredible sculptures – in pictures

  18-07-2022 20:42
  
  The acclaimed pop artist, who has died at age 93, specialised in monumental sculptures where mundane objects suddenly became larger than lifePop artist Claes Oldenburg, known for giant urban sculptures, dies aged 93Continue reading...
  
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• Europe’s tallest piece of street art finished on Leicester tower block

  18-07-2022 20:38
  
  Graffiti crew spent five weeks taking turns to dangle down 82-metre tower to paint mural celebrating cityThe Leicester street artist Wing Lo says he never had a problem with heights, but swinging from the side of a building in a cradle more than 80 metres in the air to create one of the world’s tallest artworks pushed him to the limits.“When I was on the cradle, at times I just wanted to get off it because it’s really scary. But looking back now, I’m sad it has finished,&
  
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• Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, known for giant urban sculptures, dies aged 93

  18-07-2022 20:32
  
  The Swedish-born artist, who turned objects such as baseball bats, saws and clothespins into giant sculptures, died in ManhattanClaes Oldenburg’s most incredible sculptures – in picturesPop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of a baseball bat, a clothespin and other objects, has died at age 93.Oldenburg died Monday morning in Manhattan, according to his daughter, Maartje Oldenburg. He had been in poor health since fallin
  
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• Nicholas Payne: The State Of European Opera After COVID

  18-07-2022 20:16 via bachtrack.com
  
  “I think opera went through a sticky time, with all that Darmstadt stuff where people were deliberately writing music that people couldn’t understand, as a badge of honour, really, and I don’t think composers are trying to do that now. It doesn’t mean they’re always successful, but I do think a healthy contemporary element is pretty essential to any art form.”– BachTrack
  
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• Folly or art? Catalonian town to buy labyrinthine Espai Corberó for €3m

  18-07-2022 19:55
  
  In need of repair, futuristic yet surreal complex built by artist Xavier Corberó is to become public spaceLike a three-dimensional De Chirico painting or an Escher staircase to nowhere, the labyrinthine Espai Corberó near Barcelona defies architectural logic, being designed “without plans, obeying only space and poetry”.“It’s not my home, it’s a place I made with the help of patrons and buyers as a home for my sculptures,” the artist Xavier Corbe
  
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• Folly or art? Catalonian town buys labyrinthine Espai Corberó for €3m

  18-07-2022 19:55
  
  In need of repair, futuristic yet surreal complex built by artist Xavier Corberó is to become public spaceLike a three-dimensional De Chirico painting or an Escher staircase to nowhere, the labyrinthine Espai Corberó near Barcelona defies architectural logic, being designed “without plans, obeying only space and poetry”.“It’s not my home, it’s a place I made with the help of patrons and buyers as a home for my sculptures,” the artist Xavier Corbe
  
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• Majority of Aboriginal souvenirs sold are fakes with no connection to Indigenous people, report finds

  18-07-2022 19:30
  
  Productivity Commissions calls for mandatory labelling of inauthentic products to warn consumers and protect income of Indigenous artists​​Get our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastTwo out of three “Aboriginal” souvenirs on the market are fake, with no connection to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, according to a new report by the Productivity Commission.The commission is calling for mandatory labelling of these inauthentic products
  
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• Maryland Institute Of Art Lays Off Employees After They Unionize

  18-07-2022 19:29 via artnews.com
  
  The news comes roughly two months after employees working across various departments voted 86–17 on to join SEIU Local 500 on May 24. – ARTnews
  
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• Are NFTs The Killer App for Tickets? The NFL Experiments

  18-07-2022 18:44 via shellypalmer.com
  
  This coming season, each ticket will be an NFT, which means that ticket holders will be able to buy, sell, and trade their tickets (NFTs) on the Ticketmaster marketplace. –
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• Adding Back The Color To Those Ancient Greek Statues

  18-07-2022 18:02 via npr.org
  A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York scatters recreations of what these statues ACTUALLY looked like throughout its galleries: they’re painted in garish colors with multiple patterns. – NPR
  
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• The Metropolitan Opera’s Inexorable Decline?

  18-07-2022 17:32 via conradlosborne.com
  The Metropolitan Opera has been on a downward trajectory for fifty years. For the first thirty or so of those, the descent was gradual, uneven, and in most respects reflective of the encroaching decadence of the artform in general. For the last twenty, the rate of decline has accelerated, and in the last few has gone into a new, higher gear. – Osborne on Opera
  
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• For Romans, A Chance To See Art On Its Way Back Home

  18-07-2022 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The Museum of Rescued Art is rescued from thieves, from looters, and occasionally from natural disasters, or time itself. “I think of this as a museum of wounded art, because the works exhibited here have been deprived of their contexts of discovery and belonging.” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘I was traumatised at its demolition’ – Rachel Whiteread on making House

  18-07-2022 16:02
  
  ‘Charles Saatchi offered to put it on wheels and take it to his gallery – but I wanted it to stay at its location’In 1990, when I was in my late 20s, I made a sculpture called Ghost: a plaster casting of a Victorian living room. Next I thought: “I’d love to make an entire house.” It seemed like a crazy idea. It would cost thousands – and who would fund it? Then James Lingwood came to have a cup of tea at my studio. He had just taken over running the arts
  
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• What The Newly Discovered Van Gogh Self-Portrait Teaches Us Is This

  18-07-2022 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s “not hitherto unknown biographical or psychological detail, but an understanding of general artistic process that serves to humanise Van Gogh, to make his image less cartoonish, less grandiose, less ridiculous and pathetic.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Gangnam Style Turns Ten, And It Still Holds Records On YouTube

  18-07-2022 15:45 via latimes.com
  
  “In December 2012, “Gangnam Style” became the first music video to earn more than a billion views on the platform. That momentum continued to 2014, when the song exceeded YouTube’s 2,147,483,647-view limit.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Movie And TV Studios Have Extended COVID Protocols Through The End Of September

  18-07-2022 15:30 via variety.com
  
  They’re not messing around with omicron variants. – Variety
  
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• A Time To Laugh, A Time To Cry

  18-07-2022 15:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Sometimes, it’s easier to attack serious subjects with biting satire – and for Black authors, though that’s not exactly new, it is having a bit of a resurgence. – The New York Times
  
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• How Relentless Right-Wing Attacks Shut Down An Entire Library

  18-07-2022 15:00 via npr.org
  Vinton, Iowa’s library shuttered as the staff resigned after a barrage of attacks. The complaints: “That we were not being fair to President Trump because we didn’t have books that were equal. … And that in the marching book, there was a lack of marches such as pro-life.” – NPR
  
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• Excavation Work Unveils Constantine-Era Rock Layers In Jerusalem

  18-07-2022 14:45 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “New excavation findings provide an exciting glimpse into how early churches built within the period known as Late Antiquity were carried out while revealing insights into one of the most sacred sites within Christianity.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Rise Of The Messy-Haired, Self-Hating Sarcasm Machine

  18-07-2022 14:30 via lithub.com
  
  How Persuasion got itself Fleabagged, and lost Anne Elliot in the bargain. – LitHub
  
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• The Art Of Artificial Intelligence

  18-07-2022 14:15 via wired.com
  
  The truly interesting questions concern curating AI art – and that starts with the words a curator feeds into the program. – Wired
  
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• How A Small Town Near Liverpool Got A Shakespeare Theatre For The North

  18-07-2022 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s been a quarter-century of ideas, fundraising, failed plans, failed lotteries, failed trusts – and a lot, lot, lot of donations. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• A Life as Yet Unfinished

  18-07-2022 13:52 via artsjournal.com
  The best of her —impassioned lips and eyes—gathers for the burial.Drawing (after de Kooning) © by Gerard Bellart. CLICK TO ENLARGE.
  
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• At Cambridge, Changing 350 Years Of Tradition

  18-07-2022 13:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Outwardly and proudly sexist tradition, that is, as the Boys’ Choir of St. John’s College becomes simply “The Choir of St. John’s College” — and as girls take their official places in the ranks. – The New York Times
  
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• Theatres Go Through A Sea Change With Fight And Intimacy Choreographers

  18-07-2022 13:30 via orartswatch.org
  “I think back to when I was her age, and I wonder how many terrific fight choreographers we missed out on because we had these preconceived notions about what fight choreographers looked like. We’ll never know.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Inside The Inventive, Intense Animation For Marcel The Shell’s Big-Screen Debut

  18-07-2022 13:15 via latimes.com
  
  “The danger, when you’re dealing with a bigger budget, is that in polishing it up, you might sand down all the things that made it wonderful.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Unintended Side Effect Of A Grammy Nomination

  18-07-2022 13:00 via bbc.com
  
  For those who don’t win, it kills creativity and experimentation. – BBC
  
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• The green-eyed monster: music, film and comedy about jealousy

  18-07-2022 11:00
  
  From Beyoncé’s rage-fuelled anthem to Munch’s tortured portrait of his muse, our critics explore the art of jealousyBefore becoming a dark parable about the dangers of lustful ambition, 1999’s The Talented Mr Ripley plays like a beautiful painting in which gorgeous people – Matt Damon, Jude Law (above) and Gwyneth Paltrow, all in their late 20s – frolic against the sumptuous backdrop of the late 1950s Italian riviera. Law in particular is a bronzed god, whose
  
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• ‘Things that took my fancy’: Frank Bowling on his forgotten sculptures

  18-07-2022 10:00
  
  After spending decades accumulating flotsam in his home, the abstract artist’s sculptures are being exhibited, giving us a glimpse of his unseen sideIn the late 1980s, one of Britain’s most acclaimed painters, Sir Frank Bowling, made his only foray into sculpture: welded steel abstractions were fashioned from stumpy steel bars, free-ranging metal curlicues and spirals of mesh left in his studio yard by the engineering firm next door. Originally conceived to be shown alongside his pai
  
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• A field of wheat on a $4.5bn patch of New York: the prophetic eco art of Agnes Denes

  18-07-2022 09:00
  
  Our new fortnightly series opens with a response to the heatwave: a look at the artist who planted a rural idyll right beside the towering symbols of capitalism and the patriarchyForty years ago, in the summer of 1982, Agnes Denes was two months into tending to her two-acre wheatfield, which she had grown in one of the busiest, most urban, and most expensive corners of the world: Battery Park landfill in Manhattan. Even back then, the trash-filled ground that lay underneath the field was valued
  
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• ‘It was opportunistic in the best sense’: how the US constitution inspired an exhibition

  18-07-2022 07:16
  
  After a frenzied auction, a rare first printing of the US constitution was lent to a museum in Arkansas where it’s led to an exhibition on democracyThey were eight tense minutes that Austen Barron Bailly will not forget in a hurry.The scene: Sotheby’s auction room in New York. The bidders: Ken Griffin, a billionaire hedge fund manager, versus a group of 17,000 cryptocurrency enthusiasts from around the world. The prize: a rare first printing of the US constitution. Continue reading..
  
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• London exhibition to examine surrealism’s influence on design

  18-07-2022 01:01
  
  Design Museum show to look at how movement revolutionised arts from furniture to fashionSurrealism often brings to mind the melted clocks of Salvador Dalí or René Magritte’s image of a pipe, placed aptly above the words “this is not a pipe”.However, despite the success of displays at top galleries in New York and London, the movement’s heydays were between the 1920s and the 1960s. Continue reading...
  
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