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• Art Gallery of Ontario goes from zero to number two with Diane Arbus acquisition

  24-06-2017 00:05 via The Art Newspaper
  
  With its acquisition announced today of 522 prints by Diane Arbus, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto has become the second biggest holder of her work in the world. As well as adding to the AGOs significant collection of photographywhich includes works by Gary Winogrand, Josef Sudek and Arnold Newmanthe acquisition is notable because before this, the museum owned no works by Arbus.
  Made possible with funds from the museum patrons Phil Lind, Sandra Simpson, Jay Smith, Jozef Straus, and Robin
  
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• Julia Peyton-Jones to join Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

  23-06-2017 22:00 via The Art Newspaper
  
  Julia Peyton-Jones, who stepped down as the director of Londons Serpentine Galleries last year after 25 years in the post, is joining Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Mayfair as senior global director, the gallery announced on Friday.Peyton-Jones studied painting at the Royal College of Art between 1975 and 78 but did not stay long in that field. At the Serpentine, she pioneered the Pavilion program, which invites international architects and artists to build a structure next to the galleries. The fi
  
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• Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay to become one of the world’s largest public art parks

  23-06-2017 20:03 via The Art Newspaper
  
  City officials in San Francisco have approved plans for a vast new public art park located on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island, located in San Francisco bay. The project involves spending at least $50m on works in a variety of media that will be dotted around the 300-acre terrain.
  The redevelopment of the areawhich is led by the non-profit Treasure Island Development Authority and the city agency, San Francisco Arts Commissionis due to last 20 years. The organisers aim to raise $50m throu
  
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• Shepard Fairey talks street art in Sydney—and reveals which word he would have put on a Hillary poster

  23-06-2017 18:30 via The Art Newspaper
  
  Shepard Fairey and his team of three assistants were in central Sydney this month, painting Faireys biggest ever mural on an office block wall, when a passer-by approached the Los Angeles-based artist with a man-to-man warning. The women arent going to like that, the man confided to Fairey, indicating the word obey written in huge letters directly below the murals beautiful face. Fairey scratched his chin, and told the man: Well, maybe shes saying obey to the guys.Satisfied, the man wandered of
  
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• Win McCarthy at Silberkuppe, Berlin

  23-06-2017 18:17 via ARTnews
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• Art Gallery of Ontario Acquires 522 Diane Arbus Photographs

  23-06-2017 18:16 via ARTnews
  Canada’s Art Gallery of Ontario has acquired 522 photographs by Diane Arbus. The acquisition is a major one—few museums around the world have as many works by Arbus in their collections.Arbus’s works, which were recently the subject of a survey … Read More
  
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• From the Archives: A Brief History of Walter Hopps and Edward Kienholz’s Trailblazing Ferus Gallery

  23-06-2017 18:00 via ARTnews
  “These artists may not hit pay dirt, but they are ready to risk embarkation on strange waters,” Jules Langsner wrote in 1958, referring to the artists on the roster of Los Angeles’s Ferus Gallery. Founded by Walter Hopps and artist … Read More
  
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• Julia Peyton-Jones, Longtime Director of Serpentine Galleries, to Join Staff of Galerie Thaddeus Ropac

  23-06-2017 17:50 via ARTnews
  Julia Peyton Jones, the former director of London’s Serpentine Galleries, will join the staff of Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, the blue-chip outfit with spaces in London, Paris, Paris Pantin, and Salzburg, Austria. She will begin there as senior global director in … Read More
  
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• ‘I Will Not Compromise About My Work’: David Goldblatt on Artistic Freedom, Censorship, and Moving His Archive Out of South Africa

  23-06-2017 17:20 via ARTnews
  Until recently, the South African photographer David Goldblatt had arranged for his archive to go to the University of Cape Town upon his death. The university’s library also housed a collection of work produced by Goldblatt over the past 60 years, … Read More
  
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• 'I wanted the building to fly': Renzo Piano's Santander gallery opens

  23-06-2017 16:43 via Art | The Guardian
  
  Spain’s €80m levitating Centro Botín showcases nautical flair and offers visitors easy access to waterfront for first time
  Two great hull-like forms stand on the seafront in Santander, northern Spain, clad in thousands of pearlescent discs, like a pair of ships encrusted with exotic barnacles. Jacked up 6 metres (20ft) into the air on slender white pillars, allowing views through to the water, this is the new Centro Botín, an €80m (£70m) art gallery by Renzo P
  
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2017

  23-06-2017 16:26 via ARTnews
  It may be a swampy, sweaty summer Friday right now, but before we know it, it will be fall again, and time for another edition of Frieze London, that city’s premiere fair. And today we bring you the exhibitor list … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Bad Boy Records Edition

  23-06-2017 15:00 via ARTnews
  Let’s Get LitigiousMartin Shkreli is a former hedge fund manager who, in 2015, purchased the sole copy of the Wu-Tang Clan album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” through the online auction outfit Paddle8. But he’s better known as the pharmaceuticals executive … Read More
  
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• Bring me sunshine: the designers being briefed to create a happier planet

  23-06-2017 15:00 via Art | The Guardian
  
  From the Guatemalan town painting itself in bright colours to Norway’s 10-year plan to banish belching exhaust fumes, the London Design Biennale is celebrating ideas that put a smile on everyone’s faceThis week saw the publication of the 2017 Global Emotions Report, an ambitious survey of the global mood. To compile it, Gallup conducted in-depth interviews with nearly 150,000 people in 142 countries. The report seeks to measure positive and negative daily experiences by asking people
  
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• Bonnie Prince Charlie’s road to Rome

  23-06-2017 14:32 via The Art Newspaper
  
  An array of 300 objects from 44 lenders go on show in the exhibition Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites, opening today at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh (23 June-12 November). The Vatican in Rome is among the starry institutions involved with the York Chalice and Paten, a gold communion set inlaid with 130 diamonds, on loan from the Capitolo di San Pietro. The treasure belonged to Charles younger brother Henry Benedict Stuart (Cardinal York) and has not been seen in the UK bef
  
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• Royals hit back at Brexit and a modernist takes to the trenches – the week in art

  23-06-2017 14:20 via Art | The Guardian
  
  Three princesses bring enlightenment, Canaletto finds beauty in sweat, and the pumping house that defied Thatcher gets listed – all in your weekly dispatch
  Enlightened Princesses
  Well, here’s a change from Diana’s dresses at Kensington Palace – this ambitious exhibition surveys the intellectual and cultural world of the 18th-century Enlightenment through the lives of Caroline of Ansbach, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German princesses who m
  
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• Bangkok joins the biennial bandwagon

  23-06-2017 13:30 via The Art Newspaper
  
  Bangkok will debut a contemporary art biennial next year. Bangkok Art Biennale was set up by Apinan Poshyananda, Thailands former culture minister, and the drinks magnate Thapana Sirivadhanabhakdi. The first edition is set to run from November 2018 to February 2019.Poshyananda, who is also an artist and curator, is the event's artistic director and chief executive. He says that previous attempts to establish a biennial in Bangkok failed due to lack of commitment from government and periods of p
  
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• Cecil Beaton’s Mick Jagger: like a Rolling Stone from the 19th century

  23-06-2017 13:00 via Art | The Guardian
  
  This 1967 photograph is one of the first taken of Jagger by royal snapper Cecil Beaton, who later created some of the most famous images of the rock starHere, Mick Jagger’s signature androgynous look recalls 19th-century writers he loved: the dandy Baudelaire, the doe-eyed, open-shirted Romantic Shelley. There’s an echo, too, of 1847’s girlish self-portrait by the pouting, long-haired teenage Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Continue reading...
  
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• Blooming marvellous: the world's first female photographer – and her botanical beauties

  23-06-2017 11:18 via Art | The Guardian
  
  Born in 1799, Anna Atkins captured plants, shells and algae in ghostly wisps and ravishing blues. Why isn’t she famous?‘Photography pioneer” conjures up an image of a Victorian gentleman under a drape with an outsize wooden box on a tripod. Yet one of the biggest landmark moments of early photography was down to a woman who didn’t even use a camera, and was born decades before Victoria became queen.Anna Atkins is considered to have been the first female photographer. She
  
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• Royal Academy and Fahrelnissa Zeid: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  23-06-2017 10:30 via Art | The Guardian
  
  Tate Modern showcases the work of the late abstract painter from Turkey, while the RA’s summer show celebrates art of all stylesBlack British artists in the 80s defied the Thatcherite age with courageous experimental work that seems increasingly influential in reinventing national identity and the nature of British art itself. Sonia Boyce was portraying herself and her place in history in paintings, drawings and photo-collages. The tensions of the time are captured in Black Audio Film Coll
  
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• Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919-1933 review – art at its most deliberately obscene

  23-06-2017 00:59 via Art | The Guardian
  
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  Thought Liza Minnelli in Cabaret was the peak of Weimar decadence? Think again. A pungent new exhibition reveals a world of chaos, corsets and bloodstained crosses that the Nazis were about to sweep awayWhen Hana Koch died in 2006, she left her family a modern German treasure hidden in an old altarpiece in her Bavaria home. Koch had survived the extremes and the violence of Germany in the previous century and through it all kept with her an extraordinary artistic document of innoc
  
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• This Chicago installation runneth over

  22-06-2017 23:00 via The Art Newspaper
  
  You might not need a sudsy bathbut you will need a rinseafter a visit to a new interactive installation by the London-based sculptor Roger Hiorns, located in a lakeside park at Chicagos Navy Pier landmark. The work, A retrospective view of the pathway, is made of three huge stainless-steel tanks that erupt with a non-toxic, biodegradable detergent foam. Visitors are welcome to frolic in the froth that spills out of the tanks onto the surrounding grass. The work was unveiled on 21 June as part o
  
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• Future’s so bright: Times Square shows children's art

  22-06-2017 23:00 via The Art Newspaper
  
  For four minutes out of every hour, visitors to New Yorks Times Square can enjoy a brief respite from the advertising on the Clear Channel Spectacolor Sign to see the work of young New York artists instead. The billboard displays a rotating selection of 27 works in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts current exhibition P.S. Art 2017: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of NYC Kids (until 29 October), an annual juried show of art by public school students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. The Time
  
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• French military funds technology to document heritage in conflict zones

  22-06-2017 23:00 via The Art Newspaper
  
  The French ministry of defence is funding a US-French consortium that is working to democratise the technology used to digitally document heritage sites threatened by war. A $1.1m grant, announced last month, supports a three-year project to widen access to this 3D data, so that it can be used by troops on the ground and scholars via their laptops anywhere to assess the condition of monuments and sites at risk. Peacetime applications include sites threatened by climate change and urban growth.
  
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• Fontainebleau theatre restoration enters final phase

  22-06-2017 23:00 via The Art Newspaper
  
  The final stage of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-funded renovation of the 19th-century imperial theatre at the Chteau de Fontainebleaua Unesco World Heritage site near Parisbegins in June. Designed in 1857 for Napoleon III, the theatre reopened in 2014 after the first phase, which cost 5m and saw 25 specialists and 135 craftsmen revive the original dcor of the main auditorium. The final phase focuses on restoring the theatres machinery, the upper levels of the salons and the podium that houses
  
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• First Backlot Arts Festival opens this weekend in Astoria's Kaufman Arts District

  22-06-2017 23:00 via The Art Newspaper
  
  A weekend-long festival of exhibitions, performances and interactive workshops for all ages is coming to Astoria in Queens, New York, thanks to the Kaufman Arts Districtan artistic hub spanning 24 blocks that is anchored in part by the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios.
  The first edition of the Backlot Arts Festival (24-25 June) aims to inspire artists and creatives to participate in future events happening in this great neighbourhood, Tina Stipanovic, the curator of the festival, told The Art N
  
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• Conrad Shawcross channels Brexit in his St Pancras International sculpture

  22-06-2017 23:00 via The Art Newspaper
  
  The official take on Conrad Shawcrosss new sculpture, which now hangs from the roof of St Pancras International, is that the giant rotating work, The Interpretation of Movement (a 9:8 in blue) (2017), is a celebration of mechanics and engineering. The latest commission in the stations Terrace Wires public art programme is an awesome technical feat, with its three articulated arms stretching out to a 16m span and all driven by an incredibly complex gearing system.Yet although the sculpture was c
  
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• Abstract art that Khrushchev condemned to get home in Moscow as well as US and China shows

  22-06-2017 23:00 via The Art Newspaper
  
  A Russian IT entrepreneur plans to open a museum of Russian abstract art in Moscow later this year and has set up a foundation that will spend $4.5m to promote the work abroad, including in China and the US.Olga Uskova, the founder and president of the software company Cognitive Technologies, tells The Art Newspaper that she intends to transform a former Soviet factory-workers club, designed by the Constructivist architect Konstantin Melnikov, into a museum displaying works of art from the seco
  
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• Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Now Represents Estate of Hannelore Baron

  22-06-2017 22:24 via ARTnews
  Today, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery announced that going forward, it will represent the estate of Hannelore Baron, the American artist who is best known for her work in the realms of assemblage and collage. She died of cancer in 1987. “Since … Read More
  
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• ‘Tomorrow Tomorrow’ at Canada, New York

  22-06-2017 21:14 via ARTnews
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• Character Traits: Sam Anderson on Her SculptureCenter Show

  22-06-2017 19:54 via ARTnews
  Visitors to SculptureCenter in Queens might notice a strange melody playing throughout its basement. Twin Peaks–like piano music lingers throughout its darkened halls, only to abruptly give way to a more classical-sounding score and then, briefly, to a sadder arrangement. Who’s … Read More
  
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• Watermill Center Benefit to Honor Laurie Anderson and Isabelle Huppert, in Tribute to Lou Reed

  22-06-2017 19:41 via ARTnews
  ‘Tis the season for galas out east, and today comes news about perhaps the biggest, the Watermill Center’s 24th annual summer benefit and auction. The production value at this particular party far exceeds that of your average Hamptons shindig—it’s more … Read More
  
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• Antony Gormley asks for 'vandalised' beach sculptures to be cleaned

  22-06-2017 19:26 via Art | The Guardian
  
  Sculptor’s life-sized iron men in Crosby have been brightly decorated with a polka-dot bikini and other embellishmentsAntony Gormley has asked for paint to be removed from his iron men sculptures on Crosby beach after they were embellished with colourful outfits by an unknown artist. Related: Why Antony Gormley’s iron men are broadening our horizons Art or vandalism? @peterjharvey gives his verdict to @bbcmerseyside @snellyradio at 01:24:30https://t.co/nYmdxmyliQ Pic: @PrawnCufflinks
  
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• Documenta 14 Will Bring Work to Angola in Partnership with Fundação Sindika Dokolo

  22-06-2017 19:09 via ARTnews
  The organizers of Documenta 14 broke with tradition this year by extending the show, which typically appears in Kassel, Germany, every five years, to Athens. Now they have their eyes on Luanda, Angola, where they will present Documenta 14 works by 16 … Read More
  
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• The Sunday Painter Gallery to Move to London’s Vauxhall District

  22-06-2017 17:51 via ARTnews
  This September, the Sunday Painter gallery in London will relocate from its current space in the city’s Peckham neighborhood to its Vauxhall district. In the new locale, the gallery will be in close proximity to Tate Britain as well as … Read More
  
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• Oskar Fischinger Features as a Muse for Google

  22-06-2017 17:47 via ARTnews
  On the occasion of the birthday of the great German intermedia artist Oskar Fischinger—maker of motion paintings and experimental films dating back as the 1920s—Google has put together a controllable visual/sound interface that can be accessed via its main search-engine page. … Read More
  
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• Northern exposure: artists explore theme of alienation for Nordic biennial

  22-06-2017 17:13 via The Art Newspaper
  
  What is Nordicness? What does alienation mean in todays political landscape? These are some of the issues tackled in the ninth Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Momentum, in the small Norwegian town of Moss, which opened last weekend (until 11 October).
   
  The biennial has been organised by five curators from throughout the Nordic countries. For this edition, it was Ulkria Flink from Sweden, Ilari Laamanen from Finland, Jacob Lillemose from Denmark, Jn Ransu from Iceland and Gunhild Moe
  
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• Freemasons reveal their secrets and Art Deco home

  22-06-2017 15:33 via The Art Newspaper
  
  Notoriously considered a mysterious and secretive society for men, Londons Freemasons have taken in their first artist in residence. Hidden in plain sight amongst central Londons innumerable imposing buildings, close to Covent Garden, is the Freemasons Hallthe headquarters of the United Grand Lodge of England and a fine example of Art Deco architecturewhere the South African painter Jacques Viljoen has spent the last four months capturing masonic life in the lodge. Organised as part of the
  
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• Morning Links: Barf Green Edition

  22-06-2017 15:03 via ARTnews
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• Travel photo of the week: Mona Lisa gets street cred in Paris

  22-06-2017 14:26 via Art | The Guardian
  
  A 50-metre high, jazzed up interpretation of La Gioconda is one of 32 murals brightening the skyline of Paris’s 13th arrondissement Continue reading...
  
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• Rare drawing from Brian Sewell’s collection to feature in Wyndham Lewis survey

  22-06-2017 11:33 via The Art Newspaper
  
  The largest ever survey of the British Modernist artist Wyndham Lewis, which opens this week at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, will include a rare early drawing once owned by the late art critic Brian Sewell.  The pen drawing, titled An Oriental Design (around 1900-05), is the earliest work in the show and was made while Lewis was a student at the Slade School of Art in London. [The drawing], with its small scale and dense cross-hatching, is Lewis attempt to copy Augustus Joh
  
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• Famous photos restaged, from Picasso to Capa – in pictures

  22-06-2017 08:00 via Art | The Guardian
  
  From Diane Arbus’s man in curlers to the little running boy by Willy Ronis, Catherine Balet makes delightful re-creations of the world’s most recognisable shotsContinue reading...
  
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• How Nicholas Serota’s Tate changed Britain

  22-06-2017 07:00 via Art | The Guardian
  
  Over three decades, he transformed a nation’s attitude to art. But is his revolution now in danger of being reversed? By Charlotte HigginsIn 1970, if you had said that London would one day become the centre of the international art world, the successor to Paris before the first world war and New York after the second, most people would have thought you mad. The gleaming commercial galleries, the art fairs, the record-breaking sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, the arrival of th
  
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• Study: How Adults And Children Look Differently At Art

  22-06-2017 00:02 via ArtsJournal
  
  "In a small-scale study, a research team led by Francesco Walker of Vrije University presents evidence that children and adults look at works of art quite differently, with kids focusing first on visually stimulating elements. Adults, in contrast, try to make sense of the thing from the get-go."
  
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• Four Smart People Warn Of The Threats Of Artificial Intelligence

  21-06-2017 23:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  "People who enjoy a lot of respect — like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk — warn of a coming artificial intelligence apocalypse. Others say the conversation has become alarmist — either that general AI is unlikely, or that even if it arrives, it will be here to help, not harm us."
  
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• Sotheby’s Pulls in $161.3 M. at Impressionist and Modern Sale in London, Led By Record-Breaking $41.6 M. Kandinsky

  21-06-2017 23:18 via ARTnews
  Sotheby’s netted a total of £127.9 million (about $161.3 million) at its Impressionist and modern evening sale in London, healthily exceeding its low estimate of $141.2 million despite a middling sell-through rate of 74 percent. The haul was 24 percent up from the equivalent … Read More
  
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• A Spin Through All 13 Venues of ‘Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno’ in New York

  21-06-2017 23:12 via ARTnews
  Tonight, on the longest night of the year, 13 different venues will play host to the stateside edition of “Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno,” a massive exhibition of work by the artist John Giorno presented as a work of … Read More
  
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• Defending Chicago Theatre Critic Hedy Weiss

  21-06-2017 23:01 via ArtsJournal
  
  "As far as I know, Weiss has never bothered with political correctness. If a chorus line breaks with tradition by incorporating a variety of body types, she notices—as does everyone in the audience. If a play for young audiences glorifies vandalism in the form of graffiti, she objects. I'd argue that's her greatest strength as a critic: she's taking on the subject matter of the work, as any critic worth his or her salt should, and she's not afraid to go out on a limb. You might not share h
  
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• Spain’s new Centro Botín shuns the ‘Bilbao effect’

  21-06-2017 23:00 via The Art Newspaper
  
  Almost 20 years since Frank Gehrys $100m titanium-clad Guggenheim Bilbao opened, another city on Spains north coast is getting a major contemporary art centre designed by an internationally acclaimed starchitect. The Centro Botn, Renzo Pianos first big commission in the country, opens in Santander on 23 June. But comparisons with the museum that became a model for culture-driven regeneration schemes worldwide are too simplistic, say Piano and the president of the Fundacin Botns visual arts comm
  
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