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• Ellen Gallagher’s Bird in Hand: slave ships and sunken treasure

  19-04-2019 10:59 via Art | The Guardian
  The American painter evokes a sense of narrative entwined with history, untold stories and underwater utopiaBrutal history is refashioned as ethereal fantasy in Ellen Gallagher’s painting Bird in Hand from 2006. The rum fellow at its centre combines Moby-Dick’s Captain Ahab, tap-dancing star Peg Leg Bates and the untold stories of those thrown overboard on slave ships from Cape Verde, where the artist’s paternal family hail from. Continue reading...
  
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• All things Trump: behind Andres Serrano's memorabilia museum

  19-04-2019 09:00 via Art | The Guardian
  The Game, which features about 1,000 of the artist’s Trump collectables, aims to show that he ‘didn’t appear out of nowhere’In 2004, the New York artist Andres Serrano walked into Trump Tower with his camera to photograph Donald Trump. He spent 30 minutes shooting the president as part of his America photo series.Fifteen years later, this portrait is the centerpiece of an exhibition in New York called The Game: All Things Trump, where Serrano has put his collection of abo
  
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• Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago Stages Rob Pruitt ‘Obama Paintings’ Exhibition, with Programming by Obama Foundation

  18-04-2019 23:41 via ARTnews
  It features 2,922 paintings of the former president. Read More
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• Guggenheim’s Hilma af Klint Survey Is Most Popular Show in Its History

  18-04-2019 23:31 via ARTnews
  Over 600,000 people have visited the exhibition, which ends April 23.Read More
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• Joshua Abelow at Et Al., San Francisco

  18-04-2019 23:08 via ARTnews
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• Benon Lutaaya, Maker of Contemplative Collages, Has Died

  18-04-2019 22:42 via ARTnews
  He showed work at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York in 2017. Read More
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• Amy Homma Joins Academy Museum of Motion Pictures as Director of Education and Public Engagement

  18-04-2019 21:44 via ARTnews
  The institution also received a grant from George Lucas Family Foundation that will underwrite admission for young visitors. Read More
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• Franklin Sirmans to Curate Special Frieze New York Section Dedicated to Pioneering New York Gallery Just Above Midtown

  18-04-2019 20:32 via ARTnews
  Among the artists on tap are Howardena Pindell, Lorna Simpson, and Lorraine O'Grady. Read More
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• Christie’s to Offer Modigliani’s ‘Tête’ Sculpture With Estimate of $30 M. to $40 M. in New York in May

  18-04-2019 18:04 via ARTnews
  The artist's auction record for sculpture currently stands at $70.7 million. Read More
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• Michelle Sank's best photograph: muscle man in a rabbit onesie

  18-04-2019 16:25 via Art | The Guardian
  ‘When I knocked on the door, unbuttoned, I thought: “What a gift!” … It was like he was challenging me, in a comical way’When Multistory in West Bromwich commissioned me to make a visual archive of young people’s lives in the Black Country, I knew immediately that I wanted to photograph them in their bedrooms. I wanted to capture the details of their interiors, which would become metaphors for who they were. My assistant and I found candidates in the street,
  
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• It's a #masterpiece! What if Gauguin and Monet had been on Instagram?

  18-04-2019 15:38 via Art | The Guardian
  Illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme has imagined how great painters would have fared on social media – and the trolling their work might have receivedLet’s revisit history for a minute and pretend that Jean Genet, Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh and their ilk had been #blessed with the ability to share #dailyinspo with their presumably voracious online fans. Would Claude Monet have uploaded #wanderlust shots of the landscapes he was busy abstracting with his dappled brushstrokes? Would
  
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• Morning Links: Cloud Club Edition

  18-04-2019 15:00 via ARTnews
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• Here’s the Artist List for the 2019 Biennale de Lyon

  18-04-2019 14:35 via ARTnews
  The show will open in France on September 18. Read More
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• Artadia’s 2019 New York Awards Go to Hadi Fallahpisheh and Devin N. Morris

  18-04-2019 14:00 via ARTnews
  Each artist will receive $10,000.Read More
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• Bob the flamingo, Brentford and bubblegum: Sony world photography awards winners – in pictures

  18-04-2019 08:00 via Art | The Guardian
  From a rescued flamingo in Curaçao to young people in the Outer Hebrides, here’s a selection of winners at the world’s largest photography competition• The Sony world photography awards exhibition is at Somerset House, London, until 6 MayContinue reading...
  
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• Richard Gray Gallery Names Anastasia Karpova Tinari as Director

  18-04-2019 00:01 via ARTnews
  Prior to joining the gallery, she was director of Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago. Read More
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• Chicago Artists Coalition Names Inaugural Recipients of SPARK Microgrants

  18-04-2019 00:00 via ARTnews
  Fifteen local artists will receive $2,000 each.Read More
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries, and Portland Art Museum Will Receive 550 Japanese Artworks

  17-04-2019 23:47 via ARTnews
  Works from the collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles will be distributed to the institutions over the course of five years. Read More
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• Phillips Auction House Could Reset Mark Bradford Record Again

  17-04-2019 23:45 via ARTnews
  Helter Skelter II is a companion to a painting by Bradford that Phillips sold last year for $12 million. Read More
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• Jimmie Durham, Cildo Meireles, and Pedro Cabrita Reis at Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo

  17-04-2019 22:48 via ARTnews
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• ‘Time 100’ List Includes Artists David Hockney and Luchita Hurtado

  17-04-2019 20:56 via ARTnews
  Last year brought new milestones in both artists' careers. Read More
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• New York’s Lubov Gallery Moves to Chinatown, Opens Space in Zurich, Names Olga Generalova Director

  17-04-2019 19:26 via ARTnews
  The gallery has also established a roster of five artists.Read More
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• Kasmin Now Represents Designer Jasper Morrison

  17-04-2019 19:25 via ARTnews
  His first U.S. show will be at the gallery on May 9. Read More
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• Pollock-Krasner Foundation Names Winners of $3 M. in Grants

  17-04-2019 16:00 via ARTnews
  Funds have been awarded to 111 artists and 12 nonprofit organizations. Read More
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• The Venice Biennale: Everything You Could Ever Want to Know

  17-04-2019 15:49 via ARTnews
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• French Government to Hold Architecture Competition for Notre-Dame Rebuilding

  17-04-2019 15:42 via ARTnews
  French president Emmanuel Macron has promised that the cathedral will be rebuilt in five years. Read More
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• Morning Links: Ravenous Artists Edition

  17-04-2019 15:00 via ARTnews
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• Brian Rochefort Will Have Venice Show During Biennale

  17-04-2019 14:15 via ARTnews
  The artist is currently readying an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Read More
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• Here’s the Shortlist for the $85,000 Prix International d’Art Contemporain

  17-04-2019 10:00 via ARTnews
  The artists with work selected for the prize are Yto Barrada, Arthur Jafa, and Rayyane Tabet. Read More
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• The Last Leonardo by Ben Lewis review – secrets of the world’s most expensive painting

  17-04-2019 08:30 via Art | The Guardian
  How much of the famous Salvator Mundi did Leonardo paint? And where is the $450m picture now?In November 2011, a small Renaissance painting known as the Salvator Mundi (“Saviour of the World”) went on show at the National Gallery. It was a compelling, moody, somewhat odd picture: a half-length figure of Christ with ringlets of auburn hair, holding a transparent crystal orb. Even more compelling was the label, describing it as a newly discovered work by Leonardo da Vinci.This attribut
  
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• Erwin Olaf: photography's Dutch master – in pictures

  17-04-2019 08:00 via Art | The Guardian
  From nightlife-fuelled provocateur to Rembrandt-inspired portraitist, Erwin Olaf – 60 this year – continues to approach his subject with theatrical flair Continue reading...
  
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• Basquiat and Haring paintings to go on show in blockbuster NGV exhibition

  17-04-2019 05:00 via Art | The Guardian
  Crossing Lines will feature more than 300 works by the quintessentially 1980s artistsOne of the most expensive US paintings ever sold, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled (1982), will headline the exhibition season at the National Gallery of Victoria this summer. Related: Is this Basquiat worth $110m? Yes – his art of American violence is pricelessRelated: China's terracotta warriors to march on National Gallery of VictoriaContinue reading...
  
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• Gagosian Gallery to Stage Notre-Dame Benefit Exhibition

  17-04-2019 02:06 via ARTnews
  Two collectors have already pledged large sums of money in the reconstruction efforts. Read More
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• Hiring a Director of Marketing & Communications at Society for the Performing Arts in Houston!

  17-04-2019 01:19 via ArtsJournal
  The Director of Marketing & Communications will develop, execute and evaluate comprehensive, integrated marketing and sales strategies for Society for the Performing Arts (SPA), a non-profit multi-disciplinary presenter in Houston, TX.
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• Gagosian to Start Advisory Firm With Laura Paulson as Head, Taps Andrew Fabricant as Gallery’s Chief Operating Officer

  17-04-2019 00:51 via ARTnews
  And a 24-member advisory board has been formed of top salespeople at the 16-branch gallery empire. Read More
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• The World Order Was Created For Nations. But Increasingly Cities Are Taking The Lead

  17-04-2019 00:03 via ArtsJournal
  No, Chicago isn’t about to negotiate with North Korea. And London isn’t making a mutual defense treaty with New York. But on a range of issues from climate change to workers’ rights, cities are making pacts with one another. – CityLab
  
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• Game Of Thrones Premiere Shatters Ratings With 17.4M Viewers; Most-Watched Scripted Show Of The Season

  16-04-2019 23:31 via ArtsJournal
  GoT is the extremely rare drama that has managed to grow its audience every single season (AMC’s Breaking Bad was another). AMC’s The Walking Deadused to top Game of Thrones in the ratings, but the zombie drama has recently fallen to around 5 million weekly viewers. – Entertainment Weekly
  
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• An Art Professor’s Painstakingly Detailed Scans And Images Of Notre Dame Could Help Rebuild It

  16-04-2019 23:02 via ArtsJournal
  In 2010, Andrew Tallon, an art professor at Vassar, took a Leica ScanStation C10 to Notre-Dame and, with the assistance of Columbia’s Paul Blaer, began to painstakingly scan every piece of the structure, inside and out. They mounted the Leica on a tripod, put up markers throughout the space, and set the machine to work. Over five days, they positioned the scanner again and again—50 times in all—to create an unmatched record of the reality of one of the world’s m
  
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• UK Survey: Forty Percent Of Those Who Drop Out Of The Arts Workforce Leave Because Of Family Obligations

  16-04-2019 22:32 via ArtsJournal
  The survey of over 2,000 current or former arts workers, carried out by Parents and Carers in Performing Arts (PiPA) and Birkbeck, University of London, found that 43% of respondents who had left the industry cited being a parent as the biggest factor behind their decision to leave. – Arts Professional
  
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• Jarvis Boyland at Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles

  16-04-2019 22:13 via ARTnews
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• Is Fighting A Bad Idea? (Philosophically Speaking, Of Course)

  16-04-2019 22:01 via ArtsJournal
  The upside of winning is pleasure and glory, but the cost of always winning is never getting to know how much more was in you. The only way to find the limit is to cross it. But you can’t lose unless you fight your heart out. Which is why I say, more fighting, more biting. – The Point
  
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• Outdoor Piano Concert Attracts Bats. The Ravel Made Them Furious!

  16-04-2019 21:29 via ArtsJournal
  Boris Giltburg: “Those critters just wouldn’t budge. They seemed to appear on the keyboard out of nowhere and then stayed there, lethargically, utterly unresponsive to any shooing movement I managed to produce while playing. I had a choice: to close my eyes and constantly risk my fingers landing on one, or keep my eyes open and observe a mass of insects all moving ever so slightly on the keyboard.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Fyre Festival Of Broadway Shows: How The Steve Jobs-Bill Gates Musical Became An Epic Disaster

  16-04-2019 21:03 via ArtsJournal
  “The planned 2016 production Nerds has become one of the biggest debacles in New York theater history, spawning a $6 million lawsuit and leaving at least one castmember feeling ‘stranded’ by the experience.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Studio Museum Head Thelma Golden Mints Ice Cream Flavor

  16-04-2019 20:34 via ARTnews
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• Over The Next 20 Years Trillions In Wealth Will Be Inherited. How Will This Change Philanthropy?

  16-04-2019 20:31 via ArtsJournal
  One report last year estimated that transfers to Gen-Xers and millennials over the next decade alone could yield more than $2o billion a year in new grants to nonprofits. – Inside Philanthropy
  
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• Michelle Millar Fisher Named Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  16-04-2019 20:06 via ARTnews
  She's coming from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Read More
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• Funders For Jewish Arts And Culture Are Disappearing, And Organizations Are Closing

  16-04-2019 20:04 via ArtsJournal
  “Today, Jewish funders’ focus is primarily on Jewish engagement — whether through Birthright Israel or the study of Jewish texts” — and donations for Jewish arts groups are simply drying up. – Inside Philanthropy
  
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• Why We Love Music? A Battle Between Order And Disorder

  16-04-2019 19:29 via ArtsJournal
  Human beings have a conflicted relationship to this order-disorder nexus. We are alternately attracted from one to the other. We admire principles and laws and order. We embrace reasons and causes. We seek predictability. Some of the time. On other occasions, we value spontaneity, unpredictability, novelty, unconstrained personal freedom. 
  
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• Oklahoma’s Public TV Network Settles Dispute With Foundation Supporting It (The Foundation Lost)

  16-04-2019 19:01 via ArtsJournal
  “To settle a legal dispute, the nonprofit foundation that supported public television in Oklahoma for more than three decades is dissolving. The [Oklahoma Educational Television Authority] Foundation will transfer ‘all funds and assets held in trust for OETA’ to a new nonprofit organization, Friends of OETA.” – The Oklahoman
  
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