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March 20, 2010
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Source: Mick Mather
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NEW from The Selfportrait Series -

"Selfportrait of the Artist As A Sliding Scale"digital collage by Mick Mather- click image to view full size -"... justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering ..."- Aeschylus ... [read full article]
March 20, 2010
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Source: NY Times
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Jane Sherman, 101, Dancer and Writer

Jane Sherman in 1927, after returning from a tour of Asia with the dance company Denishawn. She was the youngest member... [read full article]
March 20, 2010
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March 20, 2010
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Source: DC Art News
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Amy Lin on TVClick here to see the TV segment.Buy Amy Lin now... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: greg.org
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On The Soviets On The Moon

It doesn't feel like a tangent to go from satelloons and museums on the moon to other aesthetic aspects of space and the space race. Plus there's the fascination at discovering, as a grown man, how much I hadn't been taught as a kid. As an American kid. No one tried to ignore Sputnik or Yuri Gagarin, of couse, but it never registered with me that the Soviet Union reached the moon first. And ... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: Fecal Face
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High 5s: Sydney #1

Semi-Permanent (http://www.semipermanent.com/sydney/index.html). Blogged up our first couple days... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: anaba
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Sara Klar

Sara Klar, at Sideshow. Closes March 28th.Rich TimperioNils Karsten and Astrid Bowlby.Sara Kla... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: NY Times
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Bridge: Surprising Strength? Don’t Discount Offense

At the Spring North American Championships in Reno, Nev., when the premier event, the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams, ends on Sunday, a team that has never won the title will be crowned. ... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Iraqis Gather to Watch Hollywood’s Take on a War That Has Enveloped Their Lives

For those who gathered to view “The Hurt Locker,” to watch the film was to relive a recent chapter of their lives. ... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Music Review | New York Philharmonic: At Avery Fisher Hall, Modernism and Egyptian Mythology

Christoph Eschenbach led the New York Philharmonic through works by Berg, Schoenberg and Brahms at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday evening. ... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Dance Review | Elaine Summers Film and Dance Company: Elaine Summers Film and Dance at Danspace Project

Elaine Summers Film and Dance Company presented a film and work by Ms. Summers on Thursday at Danspace Project. ... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Party': Shaken and Stirred at a T. S. Eliot Comedy

“The Cocktail Party,” with Simon Jones and Cynthia Harris, at the Beckett Theater... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Dance Review | Stefanie Nelson Dance Group: ‘Proximity Spiral’ Seeks Fun With Numbers

Yin Yue was among the dancers in Stefanie Nelson Dance Group that performed “Proximity Spiral” at the Joyce SoHo. ... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Music Review | Chris Dingman: Vibraphonist Dazzles, but Without Fanfare

The jazz vibraphonist Chris Dingman performed at the Jazz Gallery in the South Village on Thursday night. ... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Television Review | 'Jerseylicious': The Style Network Sets Another Reality Show in New Jersey

“Jerseylicious,” a witless reality show on the Style Network about a beauty salon in Green Brook, N.J., and the vapid people who work there, begins on Sunday. ... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Arts: Taking a ‘Little Mermaid’ to Dark New Depths

For audiences weaned on the Walt Disney version of “The Little Mermaid,” John Neumeier’s bleak ballet adaptation at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House may be a bit of a shock. ... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Music Review | Joanna Newsom: At Town Hall, Singing in Tongues, Some of Them Strung

Joanna Newsom, the harpist, singer and composer performing at Town Hall on Thursday night.... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Television Review | 'Life': On Discovery, Wonders of Nature, With Oprah Winfrey

A strawberry poison dart frog from Costa Rica is observed in the 11-part nature series “Life.... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Music Review | New York City Opera: At the David H. Koch Theater, Opera With a Madcap Plot

“L’Étoile,” the comic opera featuring Julie Boulianne, center, is a production of New York City Opera at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Lena Dunham Finds Her Worth in ‘Tiny Furniture’

Lena Dunham, wrote, directed and starred in 'Tiny Furniture.... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Surfer Blood Is Between Buzz and Break at South by Southwest

Surfer Blood at the Parish, one of its South by Southwest gigs in Austin, Tex... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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‘Undercover Boss’ Is Surprise Reality Show Hit for CBS

Rick Arquilla, president of Roto-Rooter, in “Undercover Boss.... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Few MoMA Visitors Seem Upset by Abramovic Show

Visitors to the new Marina Abramovic retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, a survey of an often arduous strain of performance art, seem more intrigued than repulsed. ... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Into The Abyss: Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness A rather thorough survey that ends on a what-if art historical note.... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: Art Fag City
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Call For Applications: Art Fag City Curatorial Fellow

Tobias Rehberger from the exhibition “beat me!…” at Gio Marconi, Milan. Image via: Contemporary Art Daily Art Fag City is seeking a Curatorial Fellow as part of a new program titled “Young Curators”. AFC is an award-winning New York-based art blog that focuses on art world news, reviews, and culture commentary. Ideal candidates have a deep knowledge [...... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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[Sponsor] Atelier 4, Moving Art Forward

Art Fag City would like to thank fine art transport experts Atelier 4 for their support of our ongoing Art Handling Olympics coverage. The Art Handling Olympics takes place 3:00 pm this Sunday March 21st at Ramiken Crucible. Atelier 4 has twenty years of dedication and a commitment to meeting the challenges facing [...... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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David Fray's Wispy Schubert

Schubert, Moments musicaux / Impromptus, D. Fray(released on November 3, 2009)Virgin Classics 50999 694489 0 472'33"Online scores:Moments musicaux (D. 780)Impromptus (D. 899)Allegretto in C minor (D. 915)Schubert's piano music can present a conundrum: it is often thick in texture, dense chords over large spans that sound best, ironically, reduced to near-transparency. Especially in the late work... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: DC Art News
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An Olfactory Art LabHave you ever pondered how the olfactory sense affects visual perception, or how a scent can evoke a dormant childhood memory? In this unconventional exhibition international curator, art critic and clinical allergist, Dr. Kóan Jeff Baysa, asks artists and fragrance researchers to explore how the physical self experiences and knows the world through the sense of smell.An Olfac... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: Arts Journal
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Setting Novel In Paris Landmark Earns Author A Lawsuit

"Arguing that certain passages in her fictional depiction of a business rocked by threats, voodoo and staff abductions are defamatory, they are taking her to court and demanding €2m (£1.8m) in damages."..... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Bloomsbury Archive Includes Letter About Woolf Suicide

"I'm not sure whether the Times will by now have announced that Virginia is missing. I'm afraid there is not the slightest doubt that she drowned herself about noon last Friday," Clive Bell wrote in a detailed 1941 letter that's part of an archive newly opened to the public...... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Illustration Friday: Expired -

"Expired"digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather"... though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire ..."- Thomas Paine ... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Maastricht Signals an Art Market on the Rebound

The European Fine Art Fair, a major barometer of the mood of the market, has seen buoyant buying interest this month. ... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: Art Fag City
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New York Art Dealer Admits $120 Million Fraud - NYTimes.com Lawrence B. Salander pleads guilty. Concerns of alcohol abuse raised.... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Terence Riley on Why There’s Still No Miami Art Museum - Miami News - Riptide 2.0 Miami New Times gets the dirt on the Miami Art Museum’s cash problems.... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Margaret Wente is Wrong

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Gerhard Richter, Reading, 1996 Did The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente bother doing any research at all before penning her article Why are bloggers male? I’m asking because she’s written close to 700 words on the subject of blogging being “a guy thing” and according to a 2009 study on the subject [...... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: Arts Journal
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Where Complicated, Grown-Up Women Are The Stars

On Showtime, "it is the emphasis on middle-age women that has allowed the network to tap into a much-ignored talent pool. 'We've found a formula that works for us. It certainly took us a long time,' says Matthew Blank, longtime chairman and chief executive of Showtime Networks Inc."..... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: Arts Journal
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It's Unanimous: Texting At The Movies Is Unacceptable

"Among the hundreds of comments we received, there was one area where readers were in absolute agreement: Never, ever text at the movies. Even text addicts agreed--the light from your cell phone is obnoxiously distracting to everyone else in a large, dark theater, and you deserve a pile of popcorn in your lap when you turn it on."..... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: Arts Journal
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Iran Blocks Its Top Poet From International Travel

"Last week, as she was about to board a flight to Paris, police seized the passport of Simin Behbahani, who is 82 and nearly blind. Behbahani was interrogated all night long and then sent home -- without her passport. ... Neither the police nor the Revolutionary Court has asserted any legal basis for taking her passport."..... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: Art Fag City
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Art in Review - ‘#class’ - NYTimes.com I haven’t been to enough of class, but based on what I’ve seen he’s right. This is GREAT.... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: Arts Journal
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Ballet Director Gets Canadian Citizenship Onstage

"When Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal performed Thursday evening, artistic director Gradimir Pankov made his first appearance as a bona fide Canuck - in a brief citizenship ceremony onstage at Place Des Arts."..... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: Arts Journal
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Ian McEwan's Atonement, The Opera, Set For 2013

Michael "Berkeley will write the music, with the poet Craig Raine writing the libretto after McEwan himself decided not to. ... McEwan, currently working on a screenplay based on his novella On Chesil Beach, collaborated with Berkeley on an oratorio in 1982 and on a small-scale opera, For You, in 2008."..... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: Arts Journal
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Theresa Rebeck On The Unfair Odds For Female Dramatists

"[W]omen playwrights live in a world where we are told it is a bad thing if women are 57 percent of the undergraduate population, because that's too big an imbalance, but it's an okay thing if women are only getting 17 percent or 6 percent or 9 percent of the best jobs in show business ... and if we tried to rectify that it would be unfair because it would involve 'quotas.'"..... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Why Don't Women's Plays Transfer To Broadway?

"[Theresa] Rebeck's argument would gain credibility and traction if she questioned things like why the only show from last season's crop to transfer from off to Broadway is Geoffrey Nauffts' 'Next Fall' -- about gay men. Consider, after all, that several plays written by women had very healthy runs last year but didn't transfer...."..... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Theater Review | 'All About Me': Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna, at Henry Miller’s Theater

“All About Me,” with Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna Everage as dueling stars, is at Henry Miller’s Theater... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: Arts Journal
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Bloomberg Ending Charitable Program For NYC Nonprofits

Through the program, the billionaire mayor has channeled "nearly $200 million of his fortune" to local groups. "His decision, which is not yet public, has set off alarm in the city's arts and social services worlds, which depend heavily on his largesse and are grappling with deep budget cuts and a brutal fund-raising climate."..... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: Arts Journal
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Art Dealer Salander Pleads Guilty To $120M Fraud

''I am deeply ashamed and sorry for my actions,' the dealer, Lawrence B. Salander, 60, said after acknowledging that he had defrauded clients including the tennis star John McEnroe; Roy Lennox, a hedge fund manager; and Earl Davis, the son of the painter Stuart Davis." He admitted "to 29 charges of grand larceny and scheming to defraud investors."..... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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H.M. Koutoukas, Off Off B'way Pioneer, Dies At 72

"In works like 'Medea in the Laundromat' and 'Awful People Are Coming Over So We Must Be Pretending to Be Hard at Work and Hope They Will Go Away,' he presented cartoonishly stylized characters, equipped them with arch dialogue and set them loose in outlandish situations." He also acted in many Ridiculous Theatrical Company productions...... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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A Filmmaker's Quest To Unearth Ten Commandments Set

On California's Central Coast in 1923, "1,600 craftsmen built a temple 800 feet wide and 120 feet tall flanked by four 40-ton statues of the Pharaoh Ramses II. Twenty-one giant plaster sphinxes lined a path to the temple's gates. A tent city sprung up" -- and was buried in the sand, along with the rest, when shooting ended...... [read full article]
March 19, 2010
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Source: DC Art News
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TV does the artsThis is one of the rarest things that ever happens in the DMV: A local TV station, attracted by the "buzz" about an art show, actually does a feature about it!WJLA, the local ABC station in DC (Channel 7) News will air a profile of artist Amy Lin and her show at Addison/Ripley Fine Art.The segment will be shown later today Friday, March 19 on the 5pm News.It will be interesting to... [read full article]

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