Thursday’s Art Notes

Canadian Eloize Circus artists perform in their show “Rain” at the Rond Point theater in Paris. Photo by Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images.

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The curators of the National Portrait Gallery exhibit “Hide/Seek”, which came under fire for a video that conservatives called sacrilegious, spoke out at the New York Public Library on Wednesday, which had been planned ahead of the controversy, via The New York Times.

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Slated to co-host the forthcoming “Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies” on PBS, movie critic and KCRW host Elvis Mitchell has been dropped from the line-up, which still features Associated Press writer Christy Lemire, via the Chicago Tribune.

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Your e-reader can track your reading habits and send the info back to the manufacturer, via NPR.

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Silence, John-Cage style, is a hit in Britain, via Los Angeles Times.

In March, three pieces of a massive collaborative painting project will be carried to the top of Mt. Everest, via the Associated Press.

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Rock group OK Go previews a global collaborative art project cum music video, for which they used GPS technology to track an 8-mile parade through Los Angeles, via Wired.

Jeffrey Brown talked to Damian Kulash of OK Go in May.

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Mysterious sculptures are appearing in Boulder, Col. — one at a private residence, and another on the lawn of the city’s History Museum, via NBC 9News.

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Paris the Luminous Years, a new documentary about the fertile artistic energy unleashed in Paris in the early 20th century, aired on PBS Wednesday night. You can watch the whole documentary here for a limited time:

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