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While everyone else is cavorting on Tom Sachs Mars, I'm home, watching this rather entertainingly deadpan documentary short about the approved color palette in Sachs' studio. I imagine it to be a highlight of the new assistant orientation seminar.
COLOR. By Tom Sachs [and film by Van Neistat [youtube...
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When it rains, it pours. Raining Shostakovich in this case, not the most regularly performed composer in Munich, and now the fifth Symphony in as many days! And incidentally the Fifth Symphony this time – part of the regular Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra season with veteran conductor Polish Stanis?aw Skrowaczewski on the rostrum.
Stanis?aw Skrowaczewski is one of those fascinating cases of
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The Washington Glass Studio (WGS) has started the creation of the new cast sculptural glass doors for the Library of Congress (LOC) in Washington, DC. The design of the project started in 2004, when the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) first asked WGS about advise on their initial proposal to replace the original historic bronze door.
Details here....
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Are you from PG County and in Artomatic this year?
Let M-NCPPC's
Department of Parks and Recreation know. They might buy your art.
M-NCPPC's
Department of Parks and Recreation in Prince George's County continues
to support the arts in their County - Read on:
We are annoucing our intention to
make significant purchases of artwork by Prince George's County artists
at this year's Ar...
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The soprano performed, supported by Craig Rutenberg on piano, during her recital on Sunday afternoon at Alice Tully Hall...
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The festival, at Carnegie Hall, featured the Nashville Symphony on Saturday, with several conductors collaborating on Ives’s “Universe Symphony....
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“Bones of Turkana,” on PBS, is a look at the life and work of Richard Leakey, especially the discovery of the 1.6-million-year-old Turkana Boy.
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Nadezhda Markina as the title character in “Elena,” set in and around Moscow. The film is directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev, best known for “The Return....
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In “American Jornalero,” by Ed Cardona Jr., day laborers hope for work but must brace for confrontation.
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On the couch, from left, Hope Springer, Paul Gross and Matthew Kuenne, with, at rear, John Behlmann and Alicia Goranson, in John Guare’s new play, “Are You There, McPhee?,” at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J...
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The exhibition at the South Street Seaport Museum, to open June 20, is called "Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions."
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In an unusual move, the musical "Bring It On" will open on Broadway this summer.
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When Cannes turns its spotlight on underappreciated talent, the impact can be enormous. Last year's stars included Michael Hazanavicius's crowdpleasing ''The Artist,'' with Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo...
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Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova performing in “Flames of Paris” at the Metropolitan Opera House on Monday evening...
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The Museum for African Art was planning to open in its new location at 1280 Fifth Avenue in late 2009...
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Michael Kang of the band String Cheese Incident, which is challenging ticket vendors...
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If you want to sell your art, post your prices. Even if you have gallery representation, showing your prices can help drive sales. Always make it easy for people to buy...
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UPrinting is a leading, socially responsible online printing company. Online since 2000, the company has established itself as a major player in the industry of on-demand printing by combining high-quality press printing with a robust yet easy-to-use online ordering system...
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In the six months since Pinterest became one of 10 largest social network sites, we've heard no end to its praises. It's been sold to us as a venue for self-expression, similar to Tumblr — but with auto-filled boards like "Products I Love," "My Style," and "For the Home,” it's far less shy about its use of love-only Facebook-derivitive lifestyle branding. Unless you're working against it, can suc...
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"With more than $1 trillion in student loans outstanding in this country, crippling debt is no longer confined to dropouts from for-profit colleges or graduate students who owe on many years of education, some of the overextended debtors in years past. Now nearly everyone pursuing a bachelor's degree is borrowing.".....
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"The relationship between any work of art and its perceiver is mutable. (Every time I reread "Anna Karenina" or "David Copperfield," I feel differently about the title character.) But that of theater and the theatergoer is especially fluid. Unlike books or paintings or movies, works of theater are not fixed creations.".....
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"When it comes to the traditional screen that families gather around, live television is competing against a growing array of self-selected content. Given the amount of high-quality shows idling in my DVR and on-demand queue, channel surfing for live television seems very last century.".....
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"No one can doubt that those who run after art operate as if they were living on a different planet. This outburst of hubristic buying occurred less than a week after Sotheby's registered its highest score ever, $330 million, in a sale of Impressionist and modern art.".....
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"ACE's Stakeholder Focus Research reveals that 44% of the general public support government subsidy of the arts, down from 52% when the research was last carried out in 2009. Only 12% strongly support it - down from 16% in 2009 - while 19% of the population oppose it - up from 14% in 2009 - and 7% strongly oppose it, up from 5%.".....
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"Whatever about calls for divestment or economic sanctions and protests such as refusing to buy produce grown in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the notion of a cultural or academic boycott leaves many, including some sympathetic to the Palestinians' plight, conflicted or uneasy.".....
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Deitmar "Machold was the Stradivarius man. There are still about 600 violins, 60 cellos and 12 violas from the famous workshop in Cremona, Italy in existence today, and Machold has held about half of these instruments in his hands. His reputation was so stellar that he was permitted to prepare the appraisals himself for the two Stradivarius instruments given to the Bremen bank as collateral, and ...
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"The Pirates won 7.6 per cent of the vote in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany's most popular state, according to initial estimates, enough for 18 seats in parliament. The Pirates have now won representation in four German states and seem destined to enter Germany's federal parliament, the Bundestag, in national elections next year. The Pirates' platform includes calls a major reform of copyright l...
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"The choices we make in day-to-day life are prompted by impulses lodged deep within the nervous system. Not only are we not masters of our fate; we are captives of biological determinism. Once we enter the portals of the strange neuronal world known as the brain, we discover that -- to put the matter plainly -- we have no idea what we're doing.".....
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"Fans have become more creative (or maybe desperate) over time, sending symbols as well as letters to networks.".....
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Destroyed Richter Painting #03
First off, a huge thanks to everyone who came to the opening of Richteriana Saturday, and a high five to Magda, Postmasters and the artists in the show. It really does look great, and interesting, and provocative. If you can, you should definitely see it in person.
Destroyed Richter Painting #04
Which is actually one reason I debated not posting images of the D...
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While trying not to steal his thunder, let me just post the awesomely vivid ending to LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne's review of Williams + Tsien's unavoidably flawed Philadelphia museum building now housing the art-centered educational institution known as The Barnes Foundation:Imagine if the Barnes trustees, in the name of improved access to a supremely great but historicall...
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Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond.
Watch the production of Handel's Orlando, with René Jacobs at the podium and a staging directed by Pierre Audi, from the Théâtre de la Monnaie. [De Munt]
Listen to a recital by violinist Julia Fischer and pianist Milana Chernyavska, with music by Mozart, Schubert, Debussy,...
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Francesco Meli (Werther) and Sonia Ganassi (Charlotte), in Werther, Washington National Opera, 2012 (photo by Scott Suchman)
Two performances of Massenet's Werther in less than a year -- but do not expect me to complain, especially when the performances are both so good. After Washington Concert Opera last year, Washington National Opera has returned to this unabashedly Romantic opera for the
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On Saturday, it was Washington National Opera taking up an opera performed by Washington Concert Opera, Massenet's Werther. On Sunday, the reverse happened, with Washington Concert Opera taking up an opera that has not exactly been rare around these parts, Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns, last seen in a 2005 production at WNO, itself a rehash of the company's 1998 staging. The opera is a ...
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Ever since his debut at the old Fraser Gallery in Georgetown, for years we have been following Tim Tate’s work, its extremely distinctive and unique look: Victorian bell jars hiding mysterious videos…each one very thoughtful and complex and full of clues, meanings and arcane paths.
Then suddenly this year, Tate’s work veered.
Fewer domes, larger works, almost "sw...
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If you are in the WPA Artfile, expect to hear from this scam artist...
From: michealjohn218@yahoo.com
Date: May 14, 2012 7:07:57 AM EDT
Subject: ArtFile Online: enquiry to buy
**This following message was sent to you by a person who found your artwork on Washington Project for the Arts's ArtFile Online website. artfile.wpadc.org Please report any problems or concerns regarding t...
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Robert Swinston and Vicky Shick at La MaMa, part of the La MaMa Moves! festival...
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The soprano sang works by Debussy and Heitor Villa-Lobos at Weill Recital Hall on Friday, with Carol Wong on piano...
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From left, Eric Beach, Doug Perkins, Bobby Previte, Jason Treuting, Josh Quillen and Adam Sliwinski on Saturday at Pratt Manhattan Gallery...
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In a recital at Zankel Hall, the pianist Andras Schiff and the baritone Christian Gerhaher cycled through songs by Schumann, Haydn and Beethoven.
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This Miller Theater’s Composer Portraits series featured the work of Hilda Paredes, a Mexican contemporary music composer, performed by the violinist Irvine Arditti and the ensemble Signal.
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