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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Priest Decides Painting In His Church Might Be By Michelangelo. Then It Disappears by Artsjournal1

“After confiding in just 20 trusted people of his suspicion that a painting in his church was a lost masterpiece, a priest in the small Flemish town of Zele, 45 miles north of Brussels…

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After 30 Years, Emily Mann To Retire From McCarter Theatre Center by Artsjournal1

“In her role at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, Mann has overseen more than 160 productions, including more than 40 world premieres, since she became [the artistic director and r…

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Kanye West Gives $10 Million Toward James Turrell's Great Land Art Piece by Artsjournal1

The rapper decided to donate the money after making what he called an “art pilgrimage” last month to see Turrell’s Roden Crater in Arizona’s Painted Desert. Turrell h…

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Why It Matters That The Met Opera's Music Director Is Openly Gay by Artsjournal1

“While he hasn’t wanted to make what he called ‘a big fuss’ about his relationship, [Yannick] Nézet-Séguin sees himself and [partner Pierre] Tourville as symbolic o…

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Artist/Self-Mutilator Pyotr Pavlensky Sentenced For Setting Fire To Bank Of France by Artsjournal1

The high-pain-threshold artist, who claimed political asylum in France in May 2017, ignited the façade of the country’s central bank the following October. A court has sentenced him…

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Miami Art Mogul Launches Award He Hopes Will Rival The Turner Prize by Artsjournal1

Jorge M. Pérez, the real estate developer whose lead gift for a new building inspired the renaming of what is now the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), has endowed the $50,000 Jorge and Darle…

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Christians In Israel Protest Against 'McJesus' Scuplture by Artsjournal1

“Hundreds of Christians protested outside the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel on Friday against Jani Leinonen’s McJesus sculpture of a crucified Ronald McDonald, conflating the Ame…

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After His Anti-Gay Instagram Post, Sergei Polunin Gets Dropped By Paris Opera Ballet by Artsjournal1

It was only last Thursday that the company announced that Polunin would be making a guest appearance as Siegfried in Swan Lake. Saturday, artistic director Aurélie Dupont announced that he …

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Carol Channing, 97 by Artsjournal1

“The blonde, saucer-eyed Broadway musical comedy star … was associated with one role " Dolly Gallagher Levi in Jerry Herman’s Hello Dolly! … Ms. Channing was said to have nev…

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Classical Recording Sales In UK Up By 10.2% (!) by Artsjournal1

“Furthermore, the figures – taken from the Official Charts Company data " show a 6.9 per cent increase in sales of classical CDs alone compared with 2017.” " Gramophone

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Bass Theo Adam Dead At 92 by Artsjournal1

“A distinguished Wagnerian and Strauss specialist, his more than four-decade international career saw him perform on the world's greatest stages, but it was the Bayreuth Festival that …

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Music Makes Art Magic: Atelier des Lumières by Artsjournal1

Instead of relaxing into the New Year and creating the annual column about the favorite things of the last 12 months, we went to Paris. Yes, we saw a lot of art in a week. It was all gloriou…

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Monday Recommendation: Thelonious Monk's Works In Full by Artsjournal1

Kimbrough, Robinson, Reid, Drummond: Monk’s Dreams" Doug Ramsey

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Friday, January 11, 2019

A Year After The Emmett Till-Whitney Biennial Furor, Dana Schutz Is Back At Work by Artsjournal1

“Now, Ms. Schutz admits that she is ‘guarded’ about the controversy …, saying only that [painting Open Casket] was an attempt to ‘register this monstrous act and th…

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Was Modernist English Literature Deliberately Written To Keep The Riff-Raff Away? by Artsjournal1

Yes, argues scholar Jonathan Rose. “The intelligentsia was driven to create literary modernism by a profound loathing of ordinary common readers. The intellectuals feared the masses no…

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Oscars Will Go On Without A Host This Year: Report by Artsjournal1

“As it stands, no new offers are out, nor are any expected to be made to a single potential host to fill the void left by [the] Kevin Hart [debacle]. … [Instead,] producers will sele…

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This TV Movie About Brexit Has Been Just About As Contentious As Brexit Itself by Artsjournal1

“If James Graham has learned one thing from writing his latest political drama, it is this: ‘Brexit sends reasonable people mad,’ he said. ‘You are stepping into an a…

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That 17th-Century Viol That Alitalia Smashed Up Last Year Is Restored And Back In Action by Artsjournal1

The destruction wrought on Myrna Herzog’s 1661 Edward Lewis bass viola da gamba by the Italian airline during Herzog’s trip from Rio de Janeiro to Tel Aviv last January made head…

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Arms Manufacturer Shamed Out Of Sponsoring Museum Shows Changes Its Name To Leonardo by Artsjournal1

Jeez, talk about artwashing. A string of PR disasters, including demonstrations against Britain’s National Gallery of Art for accepting sponsorships, led the Italian defense company Fi…

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Edo De Waart Named San Diego Symphony's First-Ever Principal Guest Conductor by Artsjournal1

The Dutch conductor, who is currently music director of the New Zealand Symphony and has held the same post with the symphony orchestras of Antwerp, San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Netherlands…

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Upright Citizens Brigade To Close One Of Its Theaters by Artsjournal1

“[UCB], facing substantial financial pressures, announced on Wednesday that it would be closing its East Village location in Manhattan, a month after laying off several staff members. …

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Sergei Polunin Gets Himself In Trouble Again, This Time With Homophobic Instagram Post by Artsjournal1

“Though Polunin has long had a reputation for behaving inappropriately, in the last month his posts have been somewhat unhinged. … A troubling tirade about gender and sexuality remai…

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Alastair Macaulay Takes Issue With Dance Magazine Over 180-Degree Leg Lifts Story by Artsjournal1

The newly-retired dance critic of The New York Times wrote an actual letter to the editor saying that, while he quite liked Emma Sandall’s article this week about the history of high l…

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Incoming Director Of DC's National Gallery Is Bringing Quite A Lot To The Job by Artsjournal1

Kaywin Feldman is coming to Washington from the Minneapolis Institute of Art, where attendance more than doubled during her ten-year directorship. As Peggy McGlone reports, Feldman did that …

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Fighting Hindu Nationalism With Urdu Poetry by Artsjournal1

As prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party continues to encourage an exclusionary Hindu version of Indian nationalism, more liberal-minded Indians (by no means only Musli…

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Royal Shakespeare Co., Punchdrunk, Philharmonia Orchestra At Work On New Immersive Virtual Reality Project by Artsjournal1

“The RSC-led performance project is a collaboration of 15 organisations, including Epic Games, the creator of online video game Fortnite. Other collaborators include theatre company Pu…

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That Caravaggio That Turned Up In An Attic? French Gov't Decides It's Not Authentic And Can Be Sold by Artsjournal1

“The painting, found in April 2014 in the attic of a house near Toulouse, southern France, was thought to be another version of the famed [Judith Beheading Holofernes] by the maverick …

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'The Most Trusted Woman On TV', Reporter Sylvia Chase, Dead At 80 by Artsjournal1

“[Her] professionalism and perseverance in the 1970s helped a generation of women infiltrate the boys club of television news … She broke ground on topics like sex abuse in the workp…

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Once-Feted Dancing Girls Of Lahore Fall On Hard Times As Pakistan Becomes Ever More Conservative by Artsjournal1

“The dancing style is known as ‘nautch,’ and is a sophisticated art form that arose out of the Muslim Mughal empire and peaked in the mid-19th century.” After partiti…

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Chicago free improv all-stars by Artsjournal1

Keyboardist and synthesizer specialist Jim Baker has led the collective quartet Extraordinary Popular Delusions playing every Monday night in obscure Chicago venues for the past 13 years. " …

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Close Cousins to Sculpture? Stephen Buckley's Work Needs All Three Dimensions by Artsjournal1

It is sometimes necessary to specify a third dimension " bulk or thickness " when describing a Buckley painting. The other giveaway that tells you a painting is by Buckley is its rough edges…

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