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A collection of the best art blogs in the blogosphere!
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"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
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Jane Sherman in 1927, after returning from a tour of Asia with the dance company Denishawn. She was the youngest member...
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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 ...
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Semi-Permanent (http://www.semipermanent.com/sydney/index.html). Blogged up our first couple days...
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Sara Klar, at Sideshow. Closes March 28th.Rich TimperioNils Karsten and Astrid Bowlby.Sara Kla...
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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.
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For those who gathered to view “The Hurt Locker,” to watch the film was to relive a recent chapter of their lives.
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Christoph Eschenbach led the New York Philharmonic through works by Berg, Schoenberg and Brahms at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday evening.
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Elaine Summers Film and Dance Company presented a film and work by Ms. Summers on Thursday at Danspace Project.
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“The Cocktail Party,” with Simon Jones and Cynthia Harris, at the Beckett Theater...
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Yin Yue was among the dancers in Stefanie Nelson Dance Group that performed “Proximity Spiral” at the Joyce SoHo.
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The jazz vibraphonist Chris Dingman performed at the Jazz Gallery in the South Village on Thursday night.
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“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.
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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.
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Joanna Newsom, the harpist, singer and composer performing at Town Hall on Thursday night....
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A strawberry poison dart frog from Costa Rica is observed in the 11-part nature series “Life....
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“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....
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Surfer Blood at the Parish, one of its South by Southwest gigs in Austin, Tex...
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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.
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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....
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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 [......
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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 [......
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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...
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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...
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"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.".....
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"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......
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"Expired"digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather"... though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire ..."- Thomas Paine
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The European Fine Art Fair, a major barometer of the mood of the market, has seen buoyant buying interest this month.
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New York Art Dealer Admits $120 Million Fraud - NYTimes.com
Lawrence B. Salander pleads guilty. Concerns of alcohol abuse raised....
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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....
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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 [......
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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.".....
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"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.".....
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"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.".....
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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....
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"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.".....
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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.".....
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"[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.'".....
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"[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....".....
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“All About Me,” with Michael Feinstein and
Dame Edna Everage as dueling stars, is
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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.".....
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''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.".....
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"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......
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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......
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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...
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