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• Baltimore Museum of Art Appoints Adam Pendleton to Its Board Along with Six Other New Trustees

  22-08-2017 19:33 via ARTnews
  The appointees include figures prominent in local business, politics, art, and design. Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Raises Buyer’s Premiums for Live Auctions, Does Away With Buyer’s Premiums for Online Sales

  22-08-2017 18:23 via ARTnews
  The highest fees will now apply to lower-priced works at auction. Read More
  
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• Singapore Art Museum Names June Yap as New Curatorial Director

  22-08-2017 17:56 via ARTnews
  The appointment follows news that the museum will undergo a $90 million revamp.Read More
  
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• Seeds of Inspiration: Operating in an Expanded Field, the 13th Sharjah Biennial Aims to Push Beyond Monocultures

  22-08-2017 17:04 via ARTnews
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• Univision Communications Gives 57 Works to Frost Art Museum

  22-08-2017 16:54 via ARTnews
  Works by Wifredo Lam and Rafael Soriano are included in the donation. Read More
  
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• Castles for the Afterlife: The Coffins of Paa Joe Make Their Way from Ghana to New York

  22-08-2017 16:47 via ARTnews
  The works, commissioned by Claude Simard, are on view at Jack Shainman Gallery in Manhattan and Kinderhook, New York. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Deformed Art’ Edition

  22-08-2017 15:00 via ARTnews
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• Anohni on Future Feminism: 'Trump is just a distraction from the core issues'

  22-08-2017 14:45 via Art | The Guardian
  The transgender musician is bringing her Future Feminism project to Europe, putting feminine values first – and argues that our very ecology depends on themIn February, in her first speech after the inauguration of Trump, Hillary Clinton made the declaration that “despite all the challenges you face, I remain convinced that yes, the future is female”.It was a bittersweet moment for Anohni, the musician and artist who formerly performed as the Mercury prize-winning Antony and th
  
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• Shanghai’s West Bund Cultural Corridor spreads its wings

  22-08-2017 12:25 via The Art Newspaper
  The West Bund Cultural Corridor of Shanghais Xuhui district continues to gather steam. While the construction of the Centre Pompidou-affiliated West Bund Art Museum and the collector He Juxings Start Museum are underway, the areas population of commercial galleries is beginning to fill outand internationalise. This autumn, Ota Fine Arts will add to its locations in Tokyo and Singapore a third in the West Bund Culture and Art Pilot Zone, joining projects including ShanghArt, Aike Dellarco and Ne
  
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• Painting by Canaletto’s nephew to stay in UK after £11.7m appeal

  22-08-2017 12:00 via Art | The Guardian
  The Fortress of Königstein from the North by Bernardo Bellotto acquired by National Gallery with donations and Art Fund grant
  A spectacular view of a German fortress by the 18th-century Italian artist Bernardo Bellotto, nephew of the far more famous Canaletto, has been acquired by the National Gallery after an appeal raised almost £12m to save it from export.The government placed a temporary export bar because of the painting’s historical importance and the centuries it had spen
  
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• Hacking Hockney: the Mexican American painter bringing Latino culture into art

  22-08-2017 12:00 via Art | The Guardian
  Ramiro Gomez’s work has playfully riffed on Californian classics to bring awareness to the lack of representation for the Chicano community in artIn the 1960s, a young David Hockney, infatuated with the sun and sensuality of the west coast, introduced the world of high art to the markers of Los Angeles domestic bliss. He was dazzled by an array of immaculate modernist houses with backyard swimming pools and lawns equipped with sprinklers, a total novelty to an artist who had grown up with
  
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• Hacking Hockney: the Mexican American painter bringing diversity to the art world

  22-08-2017 12:00 via Art | The Guardian
  Ramiro Gomez’s work has playfully riffed on Californian classics to bring awareness to the lack of representation for the Chicano community in artIn the 1960s, a young David Hockney, infatuated with the sun and sensuality of the west coast, introduced the world of high art to the markers of Los Angeles domestic bliss. He was dazzled by an array of immaculate modernist houses with backyard swimming pools and lawns equipped with sprinklers, a total novelty to an artist who had grown up with
  
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• London's National Gallery buys key painting by Bellotto for over £11m

  22-08-2017 11:57 via The Art Newspaper
  The National Gallery has bought Bernardo Bellottos The Fortress of Knigstein from the North (1756-58) for 11,670,000. When a UK export licence was deferred on the painting it was valued at 11m. The Art Newspaper can report that the additional 670,000 (6%) paid represents compensation for the fall in the value of the pound after the Brexit referendum.Last year the Bellotto was sold by the 19th Earl of Derby, in whose family it had been for nearly 200 years. It was acquired by a foreign buyer, po
  
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• Man who made £30,000 faking Norman Cornish artwork told to repay £1

  22-08-2017 11:15 via Art | The Guardian
  Richard Pearson, jailed in January for selling 14 forged drawings and paintings, to pay only nominal sum due to lack of assetsA con artist who made more than £30,000 selling artworks he claimed were by the renowned “pitman painter” Norman Cornish has been ordered to repay £1.Richard Pearson, 56, from Sunderland, was jailed in January for selling 14 faked drawings and pictures to a gallery in Northumberland. He admitted fraud and forgery charges and was sentenced to three
  
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• Unsung (Asian-American) heroes of Abstract Expressionism

  22-08-2017 08:23 via The Art Newspaper
  Once in a while, an exhibition attempts to rewrite art history. Hats off then to curators at the Honolulu Museum of Art who mine new ground in the show, Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West (7 September-21 January 2018). This refreshing survey looks at mid 20th-century abstraction in a new way, bringing artists of the New York School together with Asian-American artists who studied and worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. This narrative has syste
  
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• It's a stitch-up: the embroidered past – in pictures

  22-08-2017 08:00 via Art | The Guardian
  Julie Cockburn trawls junk shops and eBay, scooping up captivating old portraits – then gives them a spellbinding new lease of life Continue reading...
  
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• My best summer photograph: sand, scorpions and sausage sarnies

  22-08-2017 07:00 via Art | The Guardian
  Phallic corn, the world’s greatest lay-by, an ostrich on the rampage and Iggy Pop in the pit … top photographers, including Wolfgang Tillmans and Chloe Dewe Mathews, pick their great summer shotsThe older girl had terrible burns – caused by a freak caravan fire on a previous holidayThey had a profound fear of black people – yet their relations with them could be affectionate and generousWe put her in a Versace outfit and she just owned itEvery now and then, the tour guid
  
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• Director of Development - Cultural Non-Profit

  22-08-2017 02:37 via ArtsJournal
  Based in the heart of the Brooklyn Cultural District, the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) is a cultural institution with a global reach and impact. Founded in 1980, the 18-member dance company tours domestically and internationally with live music, a feature of every performance since 1996 when the MMDG Music Ensemble was formed.
  Known for his humor, wit, creativity, dedication to live music and commitment to meaningful community engagement, Mark Morris opened the Mark Morris Dance Center in 2001
  
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• Study: How Our Creativity Changes As We Get Older

  22-08-2017 00:02 via ArtsJournal
  
  "How does the ability to come up with unusual ideas change as we grow older? Does it begin to flag in adolescence? Before then? To investigate these questions, we and our colleagues recently conducted several experiments, which we relate in a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
  
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• How To Encourage And Support Canadian Content? Cut Budgets?

  21-08-2017 23:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  "As streaming services erode the broadcasting business model and render Canadian content regulations less effective, critics have accused the industry of fighting over who gets the best deck chair on the Titanic... But cutting the money that TV producers can get from broadcasters for their best work seems an odd way to encourage them."
  
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• Are We Really In A Time Of "Post-Truth"? That Presumes A Lot

  21-08-2017 23:02 via ArtsJournal
  
  Post-truth’s stations of the cross are pretty familiar. Most if not all of them are given some attention in each of the books under review. In terms of contemporary evidence, any journalistic book on the subject will do what all three of the ones here do at some length. They pick over the global warming “debate”; over claims made in the Brexit referendum – especially the notorious £350 million figure on the side of the Vote Leave bus; and the various lies
  
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• Ai Weiwei builds ‘fences’ across New York in citywide exhibition

  21-08-2017 23:00 via The Art Newspaper
  The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will show works across all five boroughs of New York this autumn in a major citywide project. Good Fences Make Good Neighbours (24 October-11 February 2018) is staged by the Public Art Fund as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations. The exhibition uses fences as a way to explore immigration, boundaries and the ongoing refugee crisis. Ai, who lived in New York in the 1980s when he was a student, says it is a love letter to the city and its people.The outdoor show
  
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• Instrument Designed By Leonardo da Vinci Is Built For The First Time

  21-08-2017 22:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  "The unusual instrument is a hybrid of elements from a harpsichord, an organ and a viola da gamba. It looks like a harpsichord and has a set of strings, but rather than being plucked, the strings press against rotating wheels covered in horse hair – the same mechanism that produces sound in string instruments."
  
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• Jean Shin at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn

  21-08-2017 22:30 via ARTnews
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• You Want Diversity In The Arts? What About Political Diversity?

  21-08-2017 22:02 via ArtsJournal
  
  Should we care if art doesn’t reach the people who might learn something, reconsider a point of view, or see the dangers of a current value or belief?
  
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• The Kennedy Center Honors Have Been Politicized. It May Be Difficult To Restore Their Place

  21-08-2017 21:25 via ArtsJournal
  
  "The Honors may be governed and selected by a nonprofit institution occupying a national memorial, but they are what passes in this country for knighthoods for the performing arts: the highest-profile awards bestowed for lifetime achievement in popular and high culture. Now that the culture wars have intervened, stoked by a president who has alienated many artists throughout the nation, one wonders whether the political taint will be so easily removed."
  
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• Venezuela Cancels Dudamel Tour

  21-08-2017 21:02 via ArtsJournal
  
  The cancellation was first reported by El Nacional, which reported that the decision came from the office of the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. It came days after Mr. Maduro openly mocked Mr. Dudamel, who is arguably Venezuela’s most important cultural export — and who, as the product of the El Sistema music program, has been an international symbol of the power of the nation’s government-supported social programs.
  
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• Study: Millennials Don't Watch, Don't Like, Classic Movies

  21-08-2017 20:34 via ArtsJournal
  
  A new study finds that less than a quarter of millennials have watched a film from start to finish that was made back in the 1940s or 50s and only a third have seen one from the 1960s. Thirty percent of young people also admit to never having watched a black and white film all the way through – as opposed to 85 percent of those over 50 – with 20 percent branding the films “boring.”
  
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• Museum Visitor Steps On, Damages Yves Klein Artwork

  21-08-2017 20:02 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Even though we have several safety measures (warning signs, a partial barrier and a guard), the man was too fascinated [with the other work] to notice all of that,” a museum spokeswoman tells The Art Newspaper.
  
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• In The Age Of The Internet, Is There Any Point To Protests And Demonstrations?

  21-08-2017 19:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  "What has protest done for us lately? Smartphones and social media are supposed to have made organizing easier, and activists today speak more about numbers and reach than about lasting results. Is protest a productive use of our political attention? Or is it just a bit of social theatre we perform to make ourselves feel virtuous, useful, and in the right?"
  
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• How Statistics Have Lost Their Ability To Pursuade

  21-08-2017 19:02 via ArtsJournal
  
  "Rather than diffusing controversy and polarisation, it seems as if statistics are actually stoking them. Antipathy to statistics has become one of the hallmarks of the populist right, with statisticians and economists chief among the various “experts” that were ostensibly rejected by voters in 2016. Not only are statistics viewed by many as untrustworthy, there appears to be something almost insulting or arrogant about them. Reducing social and economic issues to numerical aggregate
  
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• 9 Art Events to Attend in the New York City This Week

  21-08-2017 18:39 via ARTnews
  A guide to the next seven days. Read More
  
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• Turkey Sues Wealthy Art Collector And Christie's Over 5000-Year-Old Stone Idol

  21-08-2017 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  The dispute has cast an awkward spotlight on a closely held company better known for its discretion as well as on a hedge-fund pioneer -- and a member of Christie's advisory board -- who has repeatedly been caught up in disputes about the provenance of antiquities linked to him.
  
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• Bigger Space, Bigger Show: Second Annual Picture Room Multiples Sale Set to Surprise

  21-08-2017 18:04 via ARTnews
  The exhibition runs August 24 through 31. Read More
  
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• Richard Florida's Creative Class Problem

  21-08-2017 18:01 via ArtsJournal
  
  After fifteen years of development plans tailored to the creative classes, Florida surveys an urban landscape in ruins. The story of London is the story of Austin, the Bay Area, Chicago, New York, Toronto, and Sydney. When the rich, the young, and the (mostly) white rediscovered the city, they created rampant property speculation, soaring home prices, and mass displacement. The “creative class” were just the rich all along, or at least the college-educated children of the rich.
  
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• Can Arizona Theatre Company's New Director Make It More Diverse?

  21-08-2017 17:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  As the state’s only member of the elite-tier League of Resident Theatres, with a $7 million budget and audiences in both Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona Theatre Company is better equipped than any other Valley company to be a leader on the issues of equity and representation for women and people of color — which, ironically enough, makes Ivers, who formerly led the Utah Shakespeare Festival, something of a “great white hope” for theater diversity here.
  
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• The Dramatic Courage Of Taking Artistic Selfies (OK, Self-Portraits) During The Cultural Revolution

  21-08-2017 17:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  This was a move against erasure. "'For me and my generational peers, this period of history is unforgettable, almost beyond belief,' Mr. Wang, now 67, said in an interview. 'Our entire youth was taken away. We didn’t fight a war, we didn’t learn anything, and when we came home, many of us couldn’t find jobs. We had nothing to show for ourselves.'"
  
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• Beg, Borrow, Steal: With Several Exhibitions Involving Appropriation, New York Has a Second ‘Pictures’ Moment

  21-08-2017 16:51 via ARTnews
  On Louise Lawler, Dara Birnbaum, Robert Longo, Rachel Harrison, Barbara Bloom, Leslie Hewitt, Marlon Mullen, Jef Geys, Tabor Robak,Sara Cwynar Read More
  
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• Does British Theatre Have A Toilet Problem? Let's Do A Survey

  21-08-2017 16:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  Yes, seriously: "A nationwide survey on access to toilets in theatres has been launched. The Association of British Theatre Technicians, which is running the survey, hopes it will help to address 'issues of accessibility and inclusivity.'"
  
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• In Venezuela's Turmoil, Gustavo Dudamel Has Become A Target - And Helped Win A Release For An Imprisoned Violinist

  21-08-2017 16:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  Los Angeles' "Dudamel was involved in the talks to release Wuilly Arteaga, a Venezuelan violinist who gained a following on social media for playing music in the middle of violent street protests against President Nicolas Maduro. National guard forces arrested Arteaga during a demonstration last month; he was released Tuesday."
  
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• Here’s the 2017 NADA Miami Beach Exhibitor List

  21-08-2017 16:00 via ARTnews
  Some art fair news in the doldrums of August: the New Art Dealers Association has released the exhibitor list for its annual fair in Miami Beach, which is timed to coincide with the run of Art Basel in early December. … Read More
  
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• Leslie Jones (Or Maybe Society) Has Come A Long Way Since Last Year's Twitter Debacle

  21-08-2017 15:45 via ArtsJournal
  
  Jones on making fun of getting hacked by racist, sexist haters after Ghostbusters came out: "That’s what comics do. You’re not a good comic if you don’t face your pain right off. That’s like the No. 1 rule on a comic’s list. You help a lot of people when you do that. You can’t ignore the elephant — you’ve got to make the elephant laugh. Me and the elephant are friends."
  
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• What's It Like Being A Black Female Millennial Composer At The BBC Proms?

  21-08-2017 15:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  Hannah Kendall: "I’m a millennial composer! I have to make money to survive financially in London. I realised early on you need a range of skills for that. As a composer it’s incredibly helpful for me to understand press and marketing and fundraising, as I’m likely to have to do it for myself. It’s not so easy juggling working in an office with teaching composition at the Junior Royal Academy of Music and then trying to write your own stuff."
  
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• When Sue Grafton Started Her Series With 'A Is For Alibi,' Few People Knew She'd Get To The End Of The Alphabet

  21-08-2017 15:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  How did this all get started? Grafton says, "I was reading an Edward Gorey cartoon book called 'The Gashlycrumb Tinies.' And that's little pen-and-ink drawings of Victorian children being done in in various ways. A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil, assaulted by bears. C for Claire, who - you know, and on down the alphabet. I thought, what a keen idea."
  
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• Hammer Names Allegra Pesenti Associate Director, Senior Curator of UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts

  21-08-2017 15:01 via ARTnews
  The curator previously worked at the museum from 2007 to 2013. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Goodbye, Golden Cattelan Toilet Edition

  21-08-2017 15:00 via ARTnews
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• A Long-Lost Banksy Is Rediscovered After Being Vandalized And Boarded Up

  21-08-2017 15:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  Wow: "Known as the Snorting Copper and considered an exemplary image by the elusive graffiti artist, it shows a uniformed policeman on his hands and knees snorting a line of cocaine."
  
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• Songs For The Eclipse

  21-08-2017 14:45 via ArtsJournal
  
  Yes, there's an obvious number one. And then a few more. (Each song lasts longer than the totality in most of the totality zone, but never mind that.)
  
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