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• Monet's obsession with London fog

  19-02-2017 22:30
  
  “Without fog London would not be beautiful” said the great French impressionist Claude Monet London smog in winter seems an unlikely inspiration for a painter but the impressionist Claude Monet came three times to the capital for extended visits to see the fog change the light patterns over the Thames.He had three obsessions, Waterloo Bridge, Charing Cross Railway Bridge and the Houses of Parliament. The first two he painted from fifth- and sixth-floor windows of the Savoy Hotel. On
  
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• Jannis Kounellis, Pioneer Of Arte Povera, Has Died At 80

  19-02-2017 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kounellis, who left Greece for Rome when he was 20, "made a highly distinctive contribution to one of the most provocative artistic movements in postwar Europe."
  
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• How Would We Act If We Knew We Would Live Forever? [VIDEO]

  19-02-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Would living forever make people happier or more generous? "It's worth asking, 'Should we die?'"
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 02.19.17

  19-02-2017 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  2017 Portland Festival Report No. 1
  The Branford Marsallis Quartet and singer Kurt Elling combined in the first major concert of the 2017 Portland, Oregon PDX Jazz Festival. A packed audience in the capacious Newmark Theater heard a ... read more
  AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2017-02-18
  The Martha Graham Dance Company’s New Visions
  The Martha Graham Dance Company commissions works by Annie-B Parson, Pontus Lidberg, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Members of the Martha Graham Dance Company in Annie-
  
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• Advertisers Buy All Of The Oscars' Ad Time, Expecting Political Speeches

  19-02-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's possible that the "Trump Bump" that's been helping the New York Times, Teen Vogue, ProPublica and other print/online publications is also driving more money toward the producers of the Oscars. The current president "'has been very good for television,' said Ashwin Navin, chief executive of Samba TV, a data and analytics firm. 'The politically charged environment has been good for television, including these award shows.'"
  
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• Our Cells Can Tell Left From Right, And That Actually Makes A Difference In Cancer Recovery

  19-02-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Each cell has a preference - a "handedness," they call it, and that may make a difference in cell repair, in cancer, and in survival. "Ramsdell and a cadre of other developmental biologists are trying to unravel why the organisms can tell their right from left. It’s a complex process, but the key orchestrators of the handedness of life are beginning to come into clearer focus."
  
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• Greece according to Michael Landy (and everyone else)

  19-02-2017 20:07
  
  The UK artist Michael Landy is reaching out to the public for his next exhibition due to open at the Diplarios School in Athens (23 March-11 June), which has been put together by the Neon organisation. Neon invites you to actively participate in the production of Michael Landys installation, by sending images that mirror your thoughts and feelings about Athens and Greece, your fears and hopes for its future, and your struggles and interactions within the city itself, a press state
  
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• Captivated by the work of Joan Eardley | Letters

  19-02-2017 19:30
  
  Thank you for the generous appreciation of Joan Eardley’s work by Frances Spalding (Review, 11 February). I was captivated by Eardley’s portraits and landscapes when I was a teenager in the mid-1950s. Her work was shown in the MacLellan Galleries, in Sauchiehall Street, near where I went to school beside Glasgow School of Art. Her sad children and simple landscapes stood out among the other very ordinary paintings and I became a fan without knowing anything about her until the 80s wh
  
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• Wolfgang Tillmans: 2017; Eduardo Paolozzi review – from the chaos of time

  19-02-2017 09:00
  
  Tate Modern; Whitechapel Gallery, London
  Wolfgang Tillmans turns an empathetic, indeterminate eye on anything and everything in this superb Tate surveyNeil MacGregor has the face of a saint – ascetic, wise, pressured by inner visions. Framed in a long dark window, he appears almost medieval. Next to him, the architect Oscar Niemeyer looks into the lens, vigilant at 102. And between them hangs a photograph of the musician Frank Ocean in all his tensely sullen beauty, the diamond dull in his
  
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• Monet glimpsed through his own words, demons and all

  19-02-2017 01:04
  
  The artist has been the shadow behind his paintings. A new film reveals a genius stalked by debtThe words are those of a man at the end of his tether. “I must have undoubtedly been born under an unlucky star. I’ve just been turned out without even a shirt on my back from the inn in which I was staying. My family refused to help me any more. I don’t know where I’ll sleep. I was so upset yesterday that I was stupid enough to hurl myself into the water. Fortunately no harm w
  
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