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• Armed with a giant phallus, Wild Daughter are taking aim

  27-06-2019 07:00 via Art | The Guardian
  They’ve shaken the leather and chains in a gay sex club. Now the transgressive trio have their sights set on stirring up the rest of the world“It’s like getting on a runaway train, not knowing when you’ll get off” says James Jeanette, frontman of performance art rock’n’roll trio Wild Daughter. “I used to take loads of drugs to get out of my own head … now I perform instead.”It’s certainly a more exciting statement of intent than
  
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• New Museum Details Planned Expansion, With New Restaurant and Expanded Bookstore

  26-06-2019 23:25 via ARTnews
  The $89 million plan is slated to open in 2022. Read More
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• ‘From Far Away. Images of the GDR’ at Museum Villa Stuck, Munich

  26-06-2019 23:03 via ARTnews
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• Aiming to Diversify Collection, SFMOMA Purchases 11 Works with Profits from $50 M. Rothko Sale

  26-06-2019 22:55 via ARTnews
  The institution has added pieces by Mickalene Thomas, Frank Bowling, Leonora Carrington, and other artists to its collection.Read More
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• Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale Draws $88.4 M. in London, Led by $21 M. Francis Bacon Self-Portrait

  26-06-2019 22:35 via ARTnews
  Auction records were set by Wols, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Pascale Marthine Tayou.Read More
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• Getty Foundation’s 2024 Pacific Standard Time to Focus on ‘Art x Science x LA’

  26-06-2019 20:23 via ARTnews
  The third iteration of the initiative will look at the intersections of art and science.Read More
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for FIAC 2019

  26-06-2019 19:51 via ARTnews
  Some 200 galleries will participate in the Parisian fair.Read More
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• Met Museum Can Keep Famed Picasso Painting ‘The Actor,’ Following Court Decision in Restitution Case

  26-06-2019 18:53 via ARTnews
  A claim for return of the artwork from 1905 had been issued after too much time, the court said. Read More
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• Artsy Names Mike Steib, Former Head of Online Wedding-Services Portal, as New CEO

  26-06-2019 18:35 via ARTnews
  Carter Cleveland, Artsy's co-founder, will move into a new role as executive chairman.Read More
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• MoMA PS1 Names Kate Fowle as Director

  26-06-2019 17:53 via ARTnews
  She had previously been chief curator of the Garage Museum of Contemporary in Moscow. Read More
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• Kim Kardashian’s New Shapewear Line Shot by Vanessa Beecroft

  26-06-2019 17:50 via ARTnews
  It's the latest in a long string of collaborations with the reality TV phenom and her husband, musician Kanye West. Read More
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• Crab Cakes, Waffles, Art: Baltimore Museum of Art Opens Branch at Storied Local Market

  26-06-2019 17:13 via ARTnews
  The new location is being inaugurated with a show of photographs by young people working with the New Orleans–based artists Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick. Read More
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• Saving 'woman hand': the artist rescuing female-only writing

  26-06-2019 15:00 via Art | The Guardian
  Kana let women express themselves freely and was used to write the world’s first novel – then it was wiped out. Meet the master calligrapher keeping the script aliveAnyone who has ever fired off a text in haste will sympathise with the first point on 11th-century Japanese writer Sei Shōnagon’s list of “infuriating things”: “Thinking of one or two changes in the wording after you’ve sent off a reply to someone’s message.”This list, her me
  
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• Morning Links: Carbon Footprint Edition

  26-06-2019 15:00 via ARTnews
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• Hauser & Wirth Takes on Fast-Rising Artist Nicolas Party

  26-06-2019 14:30 via ARTnews
  Market interest in the artist's work has spiked recently. Read More
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• ‘Worker Power, Every Minute, Every Hour’: New Museum Union Stages Action at Opening as Contract Negotiations Continue

  26-06-2019 02:09 via ARTnews
  The union sent a letter to the institution's director, urging management to respect its demands. Read More
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• $10.7 M. Basquiat Sells at $57.6 M. Christie’s Contemporary Sale in London

  25-06-2019 23:21 via ARTnews
  And a new record was set for Tschabalala Self. Read More
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• Darío Escobar at Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City

  25-06-2019 22:49 via ARTnews
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• Mysterious Caravaggio painting valued at $170m snapped up before auction

  25-06-2019 20:52 via Art | The Guardian
  Italian specialists have doubts about ‘lost masterpiece’ but French expert insists canvas is Caravaggio’s Judith and HolofernesA painting described as a lost Caravaggio masterpiece has been bought two days before it was due to go under the hammer in France.The painting, which was found under an old mattress in the attic of a house in the French city of Toulouse, was snapped up by a foreign buyer, the auction house selling it said on Tuesday. Related: 'Lost Caravaggio' found in
  
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• Caravaggio Painting Estimated at $170 M. Sold Privately Ahead of Auction in France

  25-06-2019 20:16 via ARTnews
  The house declined to name the buyer of work and the price paid. Read More
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• In Digital Push, Lucas Zwirner Named Head of Content at David Zwirner—W Magazine’s Fan Zhong Also Aboard

  25-06-2019 19:03 via ARTnews
  Zwirner was editorial director of David Zwirner Books, and Zhong was digital director at W magazine.Read More
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• The 140-tonne, fire-breathing crane: inside Glastonbury's hottest attraction

  25-06-2019 16:09 via Art | The Guardian
  Powered by chip fat, this enormous crane – rescued from Bristol docks – is about to become the festival’s dance hotspot. ‘We have no idea if it will work,’ say the duo behind it‘The idea,” says Pip Rush, “is to take over the sky.” We’re standing on a 140-tonne crane, 30 metres above the Glastonbury festival site. Rush and his collaborator Bert Cole are sanguine as they take in the view, but I’m clutching the railings, summer breez
  
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• The Sound of Listening: Candice Hopkins’s Curating Lets Indigenous Artists Do the Talking

  25-06-2019 15:30 via ARTnews
  The organizer of this year's Toronto Biennial, Hopkins has written that art “allows us to hear in moments of silence, to open our ears rather than to close them.” Read More
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• Here’s the 2019 IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair’s Exhibitor List

  25-06-2019 15:30 via ARTnews
  Participants include Hauser & Wirth, Marlborough Graphics, and Lelong Editions. Read More
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• Morning Links: Wealth Attacks Edition

  25-06-2019 15:00 via ARTnews
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• 'I search for chaos': street photography's new stars – in pictures

  25-06-2019 08:00 via Art | The Guardian
  From the stray cats of Istanbul to Belgium’s cross-dressing carnival, the LensCulture street photography awards celebrate a bold new wave of street-life chroniclers. Here’s our pick of the best entriesView more award-winners on LensCulture’s website Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I think therefore I cycle’: 50 years of Dutch protest posters – in pictures

  25-06-2019 07:00 via Art | The Guardian
  We rounded up half a century of protest posters and stickers from campaigns which helped Amsterdam become the ‘cycle capital of the world’Bike City Amsterdam by Fred Feddes and Marjolein de Lange is published by Bas Lubberhuizen Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I think therefore I cycle’: 50 years of Dutch anti-car posters – in pictures

  25-06-2019 07:00 via Art | The Guardian
  We rounded up half a century of protest posters and stickers from campaigns which helped Amsterdam become the ‘cycle capital of the world’Bike City Amsterdam by Fred Feddes and Marjolein de Lange is published by Bas Lubberhuizen Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Blasphemy’, rebellion and dissent: the artists bringing modern Indonesia to Australia

  25-06-2019 05:00 via Art | The Guardian
  Contemporary Worlds: Indonesia reveals the tensions and fraught history of the world’s third-largest democracy
  In 2018, Meiliana, a Chinese Indonesian living in Sumatra, was jailed. Her crime? A complaint to a neighbour about the volume of the call to prayer at her local mosque.Meiliana, who is Buddhist, was released last month on parole. Yet the fallout over the case remains. Not only did her objections lead to an anti-Chinese riot and the burning of several Buddhist temples in a country
  
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• Bani Abidi at Gropius Bau, Berlin

  24-06-2019 23:06 via ARTnews
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• 9 Art Events to Attend in New York: Marta Minujín, Harald Szeemann, ‘Experimental Painting,’ and More

  24-06-2019 20:54 via ARTnews
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• Art Collector Agnes Gund Signs Letter in Support of Wealth Tax

  24-06-2019 20:26 via ARTnews
  "Taking on this tax is the least we can do to strengthen the country we love," the letter reads. Read More
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• Night Gallery Now Represents Han Bing, Robert Nava, and Brie Ruais

  24-06-2019 19:52 via ARTnews
  Nava will have his first solo show with the gallery in July. Read More
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• ‘The More You Look at Susan’s Work, the More You Uncover’: Susan Te Kahurangi King’s Inimitable Drawings Showcased in Chicago

  24-06-2019 19:25 via ARTnews
  "She only needs to see something once, and it’s in her head," the artist's sister said. Read More
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• 'We're afraid': the queer Brazilian sex artists targeted by Bolsonaro

  24-06-2019 18:21 via Art | The Guardian
  After the far-right president tweeted a video of their transgressive street performance, the two artists fled São Paulo – but now they’re pushing back‘Queer people have been afraid since the president was elected,” says Paulx Castello. “He has been demonising us from the start – but this was different. Here we were personally under attack.” The artist, who has a mohican, is now instantly recognisable to most Brazilians. In March, he featured in a
  
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• ARTnews in Brief: News from Around the Art World—Week of June 24, 2019

  24-06-2019 17:29 via ARTnews
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• Morning Links: Yorkshire Sculpture International Edition

  24-06-2019 15:40 via ARTnews
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• Gagosian Hires Artsy Co-Founder Sebastian Cwilich as Adviser, Beefing Up Tech Department

  24-06-2019 15:18 via ARTnews
  The 17-location gallery has reported success with online viewing rooms and other digital initiatives recently. Read More
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• Yorkshire Sculpture International review – Ghostbusters and stone-age con men

  24-06-2019 07:00 via Art | The Guardian
  Various venues, Yorkshire
  Trawl through all the self-conscious noodling in this high-pedigree collab spanning four galleries and two cities and you’ll glimpse of authentic, balletic brilliance – but is it worth it?The Yorkshire Sculpture International ought to be better than it is. A collaboration between Leeds City Art Gallery and the Henry Moore Institute next door, the Hepworth Wakefield and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, it is an up-and-down affair. There is no real sense of colla
  
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• Book Banning Is Becoming A Prison Epidemic

  23-06-2019 22:30 via ArtsJournal
  It’s for security, officials say, as they ban books about coding and cybersecurity off of lists of books prisoners can receive. But some on the lists date back to the 1990s – and no one’s hacking into AOL anymore. – Vice
  
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• The Director Of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Says The Young Don’t Have Self-Hatred Baggage

  23-06-2019 22:00 via ArtsJournal
  Jon Chu, on Asian and Asian American actors in Hollywood: “What’s great about this whole movement is that instead of getting one shot at this next time, maybe we get five. I just hope we get the opportunity to fail and keep going. It makes me so hopeful when I talk to actors and directors and audience members who don’t have the same baggage I was taught coming up in the business, that heavy weight of feeling so out of place that you develop self-hatred. I think they see beyond
  
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• Making Sculpture A Force For Change In Yorkshire

  23-06-2019 21:30 via ArtsJournal
  In 1977, artists fought for a sculpture park in Yorkshire – but it was a very, very uphill climb. “More than 40 years later the stubbornness appears to have paid off. The YSP is at the heart of Yorkshire Sculpture International (YSI), a new festival” that is changing the area. But it started with an idea that politicians, residents, and local businesses didn’t want. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Arts Professionals: Would You Like to Work with a Ghostwriter on Your Memoirs?

  23-06-2019 21:30 via ArtsJournal
  Before you dismiss the idea…Read Lillian Shelton’s “A Shelton Story: Memories of a Secrest Series ofEvents,” which I ghostwrote. In it, Lillian draws on her memories ofdirecting the Secrest Artists Series at Wake Forest University from 1998until her retirement, in 2013. The result is a Kindle Single-sized book(available on amazon.com) that college presenters can glean forinsights on everything from bold, innovative ways of putting studentpatrons in seats to the best prac
  
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• What’s The Future For Arthouse Films In China?

  23-06-2019 21:00 via ArtsJournal
  Wang Jingchun, who won the Best Actor award at Cannes, says, “The rising box office is a really goodthing. At its worst, we hardly had a box office to speak of. There alsoused to be a problem with content: The subjects and perspectives weretoo old. Now we need new concepts, and young people coming up now arebringing all sorts of new ones to the table, new kinds of cinematicthinking. Also, foreign and Hollywood films havecome in, and everyone’s seen everything. . … Audiences h
  
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• Will Omaha Become A Center For Children’s Theatre Development?

  23-06-2019 20:30 via ArtsJournal
  That’s the hope as Rose Theater gets a large new building and plans to open one of the country’s biggest theatre academies – a “game-changer” for Omaha, but perhaps for the wider theatre world of the Midwest as well. – Omaha World-Herald
  
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• Music Publishers Are Pondering New Methods Of Digital Distribution For Orchestras

  23-06-2019 20:00 via ArtsJournal
  The Music Publishers Association may long for the past, but they’re also trying to plan for the future. “There still is not a lot of ‘jumping to digital’ at professional orchestras since the operations of these organizations are determined by lots of tradition. They ‘want digital as an option, but not the only thing they do.’ They ‘send digital perusal scores to conductors who don’t want to carry stuff around. But when it comes to concert-time, 99
  
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• Books And Social Media Actually Do Mix

  23-06-2019 19:30 via ArtsJournal
  Surprising no one who has pr-oordered, ordered, put on reserve at the library, or flat-out bought books mentioned by friends and authors on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook, the consensus is that social media plus books equals interest … and often, sales. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Day The Music Stopped

  23-06-2019 19:00 via ArtsJournal
  Jacobin Magazine’s take on the Baltimore Symphony musicians’ lockout emphasizes worker solidarity, even for elite musicians. “A lockout is probably the nastiest of tactics used by orchestra management to force union musicians to sign lackluster contracts. Lockouts take the power of withholding their labor out of the musician’s hands. Management does this for good reason, since orchestras with strong unions, aided — crucially — by community and audience suppor
  
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• Peter Selz, Curator And Art Historian Who Shaped The Berkeley Museum And MoMA, Has Died At 100

  23-06-2019 18:30 via ArtsJournal
  Selz’s views strongly shaped MoMA’s take on European and non-Abstract Expressionist art during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and his time at Berkeley made the museum “a locus of activity in the California scene.” – ArtNews
  
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• The American Film Industry Has To Learn To Deal With Fire, And Climate Change

  23-06-2019 18:00 via ArtsJournal
  When people have a hard time seeing climate change as real, Hollywood could step forward – but it could also cause more problems. “While Hollywood’s version of climate change might bring a modicum of attention to the dangers of our altered world, we still must ask: is this revelation anything more than entertaining catharsis that ultimately reinforces individualism above all else?” – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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