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• NADA Adds 17 New Members, Including Mitchell Algus Gallery, A.I.R. Gallery, Larrie

  20-02-2019 19:36 via ARTnews
  Nine of the members will participate in the organization's "New York Gallery Open" event in March. Read More
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• Galerie Gmurzynska to Mount Karl Lagerfeld Photography Survey in Zurich

  20-02-2019 19:07 via ARTnews
  The gallery has exhibited his images since 1996.Read More
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• 'Representation does matter': the rise of Latin American art in museums

  20-02-2019 17:50 via Art | The Guardian
  In a number of new exhibitions, increased visibility for Latin American artists continues to challenge the status quoLatin American artists haven’t always been allowed into centre stage. Pushed to the sidelines of mainstream art history, artists like Zilia Sánchez were overlooked from the New York art scene in the 1960s, while Latinx artists have only recently gained attention from blockbuster museums. Related: Zilia Sánchez: 92-year-old artist gets her first museum retrospec
  
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• Should you ever send nude pictures taken for an old lover to a new partner?

  20-02-2019 17:16 via Art | The Guardian
  Take it from art history: if someone demands daily visual evidence of your naked bona fides, they probably have a very narrow definition of the desirableWhat do you say if you send a nude selfie to a lover and they discover it was taken, say, two months ago? Is it cheating? Look, I was born way back in the 20th century. You may as well have asked the late Sister Wendy about contemporary dating. But according to Cosmopolitan, sending an explicit selfie past its stare-by date to a new lover really
  
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• UK museums should be honest about being stuffed with stolen goods | Alice Procter

  20-02-2019 17:06 via Art | The Guardian
  Institutions need to be transparent about their legacies of imperialism and theft – and confront the issue of repatriationMuseums are in crisis. In the past, their social role has been taken for granted – they’re spaces for preserving objects and educating the deferential public that comes to admire them. It’s a tidy, completist dream: wouldn’t it be nice to see the whole of human history, free and open to all? Related: Museums grapple with rise in pleas for return
  
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• Independent Groups: 1950s Avant-Gardists vs. Today’s Political Renegades

  20-02-2019 16:00 via ARTnews
  Defecting politicos in Britain have adopted the name of a storied avant-garde group. Here's a guide to keeping them straight. Read More
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• Morning Links: Tomi Ungerer Edition

  20-02-2019 15:00 via ARTnews
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• Hauser & Wirth Gallery Now Represents Roberto Cuoghi

  20-02-2019 14:30 via ARTnews
  He was one of three artists representing Italy at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Read More
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• Dallas Art Fair to Open Permanent Art Space Offering Year-Round Programming

  20-02-2019 14:30 via ARTnews
  The venue, 214 Projects, will open on March 2 with an Emmanuel Van der Auwera solo show. Read More
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• Armory Show Public Programs To Take On American National Identity, Feminist Provocations

  20-02-2019 14:30 via ARTnews
  Sarah Douglas, Sally Tallant, andSean Kelly are among this year's participants in the Armory Live conversation series. Read More
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• Smuggling art into fashion: Erwin Blumenfeld's high style – in pictures

  20-02-2019 08:00 via Art | The Guardian
  Erwin Blumenfeld was one of the most celebrated fashion photographers of his time. He mostly worked in black and white, but this selection focuses on his colour output and boldly experimental images made in New York in the 40s and 50s Continue reading...
  
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• From foil-wrapped glaciers to the Alpine storm cyclist: the artists fighting climate change

  20-02-2019 07:00 via Art | The Guardian
  After too long a silence, art is finally tackling global warming. Here are the big players – including the photographer who’s lighting up AlaskaIn 1975, photographer Michel Comte stood up before scientists, business leaders and politicians at the Club of Rome to deliver a speech about the climate disaster he believed was on the horizon. Back then, he was still a student, and a little nervous – but he could sense the future. Now, Comte’s recent works incorporating black ca
  
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• Chef Mina Stone Will Open Restaurant at MoMA PS1

  20-02-2019 02:07 via ARTnews
  It takes the place of M. Wells Dinette, which is closing at the end of February. Read More
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• Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver review – small wonders

  20-02-2019 01:00 via Art | The Guardian
  National Portrait Gallery, London
  These tiny masterpieces, blazing with passion, desire and mystery, are among the most magical creations in British artA young man with dark hair erupting like fire in a crest on his forehead poses with his white shirt open to expose his chest. Golden flames surround him but he is unscathed. It’s an image straight out of an Elizabethan love poem. This unknown but red-hot youth was portrayed by Nicholas Hilliard in about 1600 on an oval piece of vellum just
  
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• Graduate Assistantships in Arts Administration

  20-02-2019 00:56 via ArtsJournal
  Two open positions for the 19-20 academic year, including hourly pay and tuition benefits.Jump-start your career in arts administration by earning a Master’s in 15 months at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY. Two Graduate Assistant positions are devoted to our program, providing students with hands-on marketing, fundraising, and management experience while completing our program.
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• What If We’re Trying To Find The Theory Of Everything In The Wrong Places?

  20-02-2019 00:02 via ArtsJournal
  “The ascension to the tenth level of intellectual heaven would be if we find the question to which the universe is the answer, and the nature of that question in and of itself explains why it was possible to describe it in so many different ways.” It’s as though physics has been turned inside out. It now appears that the answers already surround us. It’s the question we don’t know. – The New Yorker
  
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• What are Our Writing Tools Doing To Writing? (And Reading?)

  19-02-2019 23:31 via ArtsJournal
  Writing is so influenced by the machines we write with. The process of creating something is shaped by the tools. Ergo, what we write is also shaped? And how about readers? With constant demands on their attention, with screens and email and notifications, the process of reading has changed. What’s a writer to do? – The New Yorker
  
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• The Constant Gardener: Hein Koh Talks Parenting, Photoshop, and Her Sprawling Rockefeller Center Show

  19-02-2019 23:15 via ARTnews
  "Braving the Cold" continues through April 15 at various locations.Read More
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• How Your Body And Your Brain Work Together To Perceive The World

  19-02-2019 22:32 via ArtsJournal
  If you pay attention to your heart and bodily responses, they can tell you how you are feeling, and allow you to share in the emotions of others. Interoception can enhance the depth of our own emotions, emotionally bind us to those around us, and guide our intuitive instincts. We are now learning just how much the way we think and feel is shaped by this dynamic interaction between body and brain. – Aeon
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Appoints New Deputy Director for Digital and Two Curators

  19-02-2019 22:19 via ARTnews
  Inka Drögemüller joins from Germany, and Sean Hemingway and Sarah E. Lawrence assume new curatorial posts. Read More
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• ‘Next Generations: Current Photography Made in the Rhineland’ at Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

  19-02-2019 22:14 via ARTnews
  See images from one notable show every weekday. Read More
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• MacDowell Colony Gets A New Director

  19-02-2019 22:01 via ArtsJournal
  Himberg is joining the 112-year-old MacDowell Colony from the Sundance Institute, where he served as the artistic director of Sundance’s theater program for the past 23 years. He will be based at the organization’s New York office and will work closely with David Macy, MacDowell’s resident director at the organization’s facility in Peterborough, N.H. – The New York Times
  
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• Here’s A Good Primer On The Challenges (And Accomplishments So Far) Of Artificial Intelligence

  19-02-2019 21:34 via ArtsJournal
  In his masterpiece, “The Lady of Shalott”, Alfred Tennyson describes a character from the Arthurian legend who is cursed to remain in a tower, looking at the world only through a mirror, and weaving the “mirror’s magic sights” into her web. AI today is, it seems, in its Lady of Shalott stage, trying to weave four-dimensional reality into a two-dimensional web by looking into the dim, distorting, and often deceptive mirror of data. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Ai Weiwei And Frank Gehry, Sitting Around And Talking

  19-02-2019 21:04 via ArtsJournal
  Ai: “When I see your earlier work, the models that look like you crumpled up a piece of paper that you were going to throw out, I think that’s a breakthrough.”
  Gehry: “You know, I grew up in the art world — this was the way I wanted to work, more hands-on, sort of like the way you work.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• Nicole R. Myers Appointed Senior Curator of European Art at Dallas Museum of Art

  19-02-2019 20:51 via ARTnews
  She has served as the museum's curator of European painting and sculpture for the past three years.Read More
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• Classical Music Is Broken Online. What iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music And The Others Should Do About It

  19-02-2019 20:29 via ArtsJournal
  It’s difficult to find music, hard to catalog, and just an overall pain in the neck to manage. The problem? “We’re treating around 300 years of music from various countries, forms, philosophies, and so on as one genre. As far as modern commercial music, we don’t group the past 50 years together” – Mac Rumors
  
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• Why Do The Covers Of Novels Always Have The Phrase ‘A Novel’ On Them?

  19-02-2019 20:01 via ArtsJournal
  “Books have used the ‘XYZ: A Novel’ format since the 17th century, when realistic fiction started getting popular. The term ‘novel’ was a way to distinguish these more down-to-earth stories from the fanciful ‘romances’ that came before … Then, as now, it was a tag that identified the kind of literature you were getting yourself into.” – Vox
  
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• Heavy Metal Has A Nazi Problem. But What To Do About It?

  19-02-2019 19:32 via ArtsJournal
  “Should metal stay dangerous and controversial and offensive? Is it censorship to deny bands a platform for their genocidal views? Is it curtailing their free speech to make it harder for a band to get booked or get signed versus at what point does it become critical to keep these dangerous Fascist elements out of our scene? At what point is that record worth so much to you that you would buy it knowing that you were actively contributing to something that is harming other people?” &
  
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• Salvaging Alan Jay Lerner’s Biggest Flop, A Musical ‘Lolita’

  19-02-2019 19:02 via ArtsJournal
  Think that’s a ghastly idea for a Broadway show? So did audiences in 1971, when try-out audiences in Philadelphia and Boston hated Lolita, My Love so much that the Broadway run was called off. But the producers of an upcoming staged reading in New York, with a revised book and a new framing device, aim to find out if audiences are finally ready for the show (with the changes, at least). – The New York Times
  
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• The Salvador Mundi Has Disappeared. Where Is It?

  19-02-2019 18:28 via ArtsJournal
  Where the Salvator Mundi is now, no one is quite sure. Locked away in a store room in the Abu Dhabi Louvre, perhaps?  Or being pored over in a laboratory somewhere by scientists and art experts determined to prove it is authentic? Or even hanging on the wall in a grand salon in a Saudi Palace, a reminder of a moment of madness. Many art lovers are left wondering if it will ever be seen again. – The Daily Mail (UK)
  
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• W.H. Auden Hated His Anti-Fascist Poems

  19-02-2019 18:03 via ArtsJournal
  “‘Spain’ and ‘September 1, 1939’ would be variously revised and amended before Auden finally excised them altogether from his corpus, the first because he saw it as the endorsement of a wicked philosophy, the second because it saw it as sententious nonsense.” – The Daily Beast
  
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• Ronni Baer Named Princeton University Art Museum’s Distinguished Curator and Lecturer

  19-02-2019 17:32 via ARTnews
  She is currently senior curator of paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Read More
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• Monty Python Snubs V&A Museum For Proposed Show

  19-02-2019 17:30 via ArtsJournal
  “It became clear they were doing an exhibition on Surrealism…,” writes Eric Idle in his book. “Pretentious nonsense. We’re nothing to do with Dalí or Duchamp… Python has always been about comedy. That is the art.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Zimbabwe Taps Four for 2019 Venice Biennale Pavilion

  19-02-2019 17:21 via ARTnews
  The artists are Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Neville Starling, Georgina Maxim, and Cosmas Shiridzinomwa. Read More
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• Hockney book paints portrait of the artist through brother's eyes

  19-02-2019 17:17 via Art | The Guardian
  The Hockneys: Never Worry What the Neighbours Think offers an intimate look at the painter David by his brother JohnA new book on David Hockney is set to offer readers the chance to view the artist from a fresh perspective – that of his younger brother.The Hockneys: Never Worry What the Neighbours Think is written by John Hockney, the youngest of four siblings, and promises to examine the close and complex relationships between the family members, as well revealing more about the life of o
  
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• Marianne Boesky Gallery Names Stephanie Gabriel Director

  19-02-2019 17:10 via ARTnews
  The gallery has also hired Sara Putterman as marketing and communications coordinator. Read More
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• Pubs, K-pop and Wilfred Owen: Baltic Artists’ award 2019 review

  19-02-2019 17:05 via Art | The Guardian
  Baltic, Gateshead
  The winners of the prize for up-and-coming artists – Ingrid Pollard, Kang Jungsack and Aaron Hughes – take on war, racism and reality itself As Iraq war veteran Aaron Hughes contemplates his new commission for the Baltic Artists’ award, he tells the Guardian that “creativity can push back against the divisions that drive conflict”. Deployed to Iraq on behalf of the US army in 2003-04, Hughes became disillusioned by the destruction of war, and chose
  
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• Blackface Minstrelsy, America’s First Cultural Export

  19-02-2019 17:04 via ArtsJournal
  While other nations have had traditions of blackening the face to portray a particular character (e.g., Holland’s Zwarte Piet), “a man named Thomas Dartmouth Rice first brought American minstrel shows to Europe in 1836 in which white performers portrayed African American slaves in tattered clothes, dancing and singing songs such as ‘Jump Jim Crow.’ … [Subsequently,] blackface minstrels toured Australia, India, South America, South Africa and other places in the wo
  
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• Online Petition Challenges Morgan Library to ‘Only Exhibit Solo Shows by Women’ in 2020

  19-02-2019 16:47 via ARTnews
  An artist drafted the call after noting that all of the New York museum's solo shows highlight white men. Read More
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• ‘Queen Of The Soundies’, Tap Dancer Mable Lee, Dead At 97

  19-02-2019 16:36 via ArtsJournal
  “Soundies” were three-minute musical films meant to be played on jukeboxes, and Lee starred in more than 100 of them. In a career that stretched from the age of nine to this past summer, she achieved dance stardom after graduating from the Apollo Theater’s chorus line, was part of the first all-black USO tour, starred in the national tour of Bubbling Brown Sugar, and took part in the tap-dance revival that started in the 1980s, teaching the likes of Michelle Dorrance. –
  
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• What Comedy Tells Us About Ourselves — And How We’re Changing

  19-02-2019 16:05 via ArtsJournal
  Scholar of comedy Matthew McMahan: “Just as Michel Foucault encourages historians to look to moments of rupture and discontinuity when trying to decipher how a culture thinks and acts, I suggest students of comedy look to the moments when a successful joke simply stops landing with its audience. The moment when a loud guffaw quickly shifts to an appalled gasp can tell us a lot about how a culture is changing.” – HowlRound
  
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• Why Jessica Lang Decided To Shut Down Her Dance Company

  19-02-2019 15:34 via ArtsJournal
  “We didn’t lose our funding. … It was something I did. I approached the board. I told them the last thing I felt I had time to do was create, to make ballets. They agreed. This kind of structure and organization — I know I am not the only one to say it — doesn’t work for me now.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Met Museum Closes Show And Returns Golden Casket To Egypt

  19-02-2019 15:18 via ArtsJournal
  “Less than two years after an acquisition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it had handed over a first-century BC gilded coffin to the Manhattan district attorney for return to the Egyptian government after discovering that it had been looted in 2011.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Naiza Khan Will Represent Pakistan at 2019 Venice Biennale

  19-02-2019 15:15 via ARTnews
  This is the first time the nation will have a pavilion at the event. Read More
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• After 109 Years, Yale Whiffenpoofs Admit A Female

  19-02-2019 15:03 via ArtsJournal
  The most famous of collegiate a cappella groups, the Whiffenpoofs were an all-male outfit until a decision last year to choose singers based on voice range (still tenor, baritone, and bass) rather than gender. So the Whiffenpoofs line-up for 2018-29 includes tenor Sofia Campoamor. – The Washington Post
  
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• Morning Links: Monet’s Crew Edition

  19-02-2019 15:00 via ARTnews
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• After Series Of Flops, Amazon Re-Orients Its Filmmaking Product Line

  19-02-2019 14:47 via ArtsJournal
  Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke: “What we struggled with, I think, was putting too much focus on a narrow prestige lane. I don’t think we had diverse-enough points of view in the storytelling.” So, in addition to the “prestige lane,” the company will add “lanes” in erotic thrillers, horror titles, and (later) young-adult movies. – The New York Times
  
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• Marina Abramović: The Life review – 'A pointless perversion that hurts your eyes'

  19-02-2019 14:45 via Art | The Guardian
  Serpentine gallery, London
  Why would anyone want to watch a hologram of the famous performance artist doing nothing? Abramović’s much vaunted show is tedious and tritePeople are standing around with hi-tech devices strapped to their heads. I am one of them. Through the lenses that protrude from my face, I can see how daft my fellow audience members look. We’re like a bunch of drunks playing that game where you have a word stuck to your forehead. This is Mixed Reality, which lets
  
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• Charlotte, NC Considers Sales Tax Hike To Fund Arts

  19-02-2019 14:32 via ArtsJournal
  “Valecia McDowell, incoming chair of [local funding body] the Arts & Science Council, said the local arts sector is at a ‘crisis point.’ To make up for steep losses in private giving, Mecklenburg County could ask voters this year to approve a new quarter-cent sales tax, which would provide a dedicated funding stream for the ASC.” – The Charlotte Observer
  
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• Roughly 2,000 Objects Have Been Recovered From Ashes Of Brazil’s National Museum

  19-02-2019 14:16 via ArtsJournal
  Among the items found are meteorites, bones of an ancient human and dinosaurs, gemstones and minerals, and pre-Columbian artifacts. (Curators warn, however, that some of the 2,000 items may be fragments of the same object.) – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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