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• Untitled(When the stagnation was unbearable I vomited. )

  30-01-2015 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  H asked me a personal question I kept from myself. I talked about Y because I knew she was obsessed with him and would forget about me. She came to me when she was scared of Y and would end up talking about what she wanted to do with her life. She clipped me off ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Outsider Art Fair’s success begs the question: who is left outside?

  30-01-2015 22:31
  
  Works in this flexible category are still relatively affordable, but the threat of the contemporary art market looms
  
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• Consumer Reports: Jeanette Hayes

  30-01-2015 22:30 via artnews.com
  “Consumer Reports” is a recurring feature that profiles an artist’s consumption of any and all media throughout one work week. Jeanette Hayes is a painter and multimedia artist based in New York City and originally from Chicago. Her work addresses the … Read More
  
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• A Typist, Radio Star, and Traitor: Miwa Yanagi’s ‘Zero Hour’ Tackles Tokyo Rose

  30-01-2015 22:14 via artnews.com
  In 1949, Iva Toguri d’Aquino, a young Japanese-American typist, became the seventh person in the history of the United States to be convicted of treason. She was brought from Japan to America, arrested immediately, tried, and put in a detainment … Read More
  
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• Wadsworth Atheneum: oldest public museum in US comes back from brink

  30-01-2015 22:08
  
  Connecticut museum of art will soon be open in its entirety for the first time in years, after an innovative revamp that will showcase the breadth of its collectionFounded in 1842 in Hartford, Connecticut, the Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest continually operating public museum in the US. Recently, beset by debt and crumbling infrastructure, it flirted with losing that title. Under director Susan Talbott, it has pulled itself back from the brink.
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• Heartwarming Secret Masterpiece Narrative Takes Tragic Turn, Fine Turn

  30-01-2015 21:21 via artnews.com
  Georgina Adam’s Financial Times column today opens with the story of a “retired Italian factory worker” who bought two paintings for £20 in 1975 that turned out to be by Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard. Fantastic, right? No. Because: When … Read More
  
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• Columbus Museum of Art Appoints New Curators

  30-01-2015 19:44 via artnews.com
  It’s a busy day over at Ohio’s Columbus Museum of Art with not one, not two, but three curatorial staff announcements. First up: David Stark, previously director of administration for museum education at the Art Institute of Chicago, has been … Read More
  
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• Sketch of Van Gogh drawn by his friend found in museum

  30-01-2015 18:51
  
  A portrait of Vincent van Gogh has been discovered in a sketchbook held in a museum archive for more than 45 years.
  
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• Going, going, gone: how Sotheby’s and Christie’s still lose out on big sales

  30-01-2015 18:22
  
  Despite increasing prices of art, big profits do not always trickle down to auction houses – thanks to generous guarantees to ultra-rich sellersThe quarterly results for the world’s two largest auction houses, released this month, trumpeted an art market in perpetual boom. Christie’s, the biggest clearing house for ultra-expensive pictures and baubles, posted $8.4bn in sales, up 17% year on year. Sotheby’s, its arch rival (and former collaborator in a price-fixing scandal), saw its sales
  
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• Picabia Alert #2: Eight Picabias at London Auction Houses

  30-01-2015 18:13 via artnews.com
  “Picabia Alert” is a recurring feature that takes note of shows that feature work by the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953). Why Picabia? Because I love him and hopefully you do too, and because he is having a retrospective at the Kunsthaus Zurich … Read More
  
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• Polish film posters from the BFI Special Collection – in pictures

  30-01-2015 17:25
  
  In the decades after the second world war, Poland saw an extraordinary flowering in the art of poster-making, as designers were given a free hand. As a new exhibition opens, here is a selection of Polish posters for British filmsPolish Film Posters: 1954–1970 is at BFI Southbank until 25 May
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• How Monet became blue chip: the language of wealthy art buyers

  30-01-2015 17:09
  
  Painting of the Grand Canal expected to fetch up to £30m, amid surging interest from super-rich in Asia and Middle EastClaude Monet’s painting of the Grand Canal in Venice is the first thing you see on arriving at the main exhibition at Sotheby’s auction house. The iridescent blue-green waters, hazy skies and pearly white domes of the “floating city” are instantly recognisable, an image that has been endlessly reproduced on postcards and tea towels.On Tuesday this beautiful painting wil
  
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• Heil Kitty: weaponising cuteness to shame neo-Nazis

  30-01-2015 17:04
  
  Stockholm street artist Herr Nilsson combines the cartoonish and controversial to remind us of ‘the thin line between love and hate’ as right wing groups gain strength in EuropeYou can’t help but wonder what Astrid Lindgren – the social democrat and creator of feminist hero Pippi Longstocking – would make of Herr Nilsson. Not her Herr Nilsson (Pippi’s monkey companion), but the anonymous Swedish street artist who recently painted a scene of swastika-raising cartoon characters on the
  
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• He fooled the newspapers, he fooled the locals but now Cumbria's Banksy imposter is coming unstuck

  30-01-2015 17:03
  
  If you are given a stencil by a man claiming to be “Robin Banks” don’t book that expensive holiday just yet as this Banksy is a fake.
  
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• How John Singer Sargent made a scene

  30-01-2015 15:30
  
  Often derided as staidly traditional, John Singer Sargent in fact provided a glimpse of the modern world. Ahead of a major new exhibition, Sarah Chuchwell surveys the sensational portraits that caught the imagination of painters and authors alikeIn 1893, Henry James wrote an essay praising his friend, the painter John Singer Sargent, in which he declared: “There is no greater work of art than a great portrait,” because of the empathetic vision it required. Sargent was remarkable, said James,
  
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• Punks and pub crawls – the week in art

  30-01-2015 15:26
  
  A show about youth subcultures takes over the Photographers’ Gallery’s new space, while Christian Marclay’s inebriated action paintings hit London. Plus, the gif art you can see from space, and how much sponsorship money BP paid Tate – all in your weekly art dispatchMarlene Dumas: The Image as Burden
  Powerful, erotic, troubling ... Marlene Dumas is a painter of our time.
  Tate Modern, London SE1 from 5 February until 10 May Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: David Byrne Edition

  30-01-2015 15:08 via artnews.com
  “Thomas W. Lentz, who directed the Harvard Art Museums for more than a decade and shepherded them through a long and sometimes contentious $350 million renovation and expansion that was completed last November,” announced that he is planning to step … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: January 30, 2015 Edition

  30-01-2015 15:05 via artnews.com
  “Thomas W. Lentz, who directed the Harvard Art Museums for more than a decade and shepherded them through a long and sometimes contentious $350 million renovation and expansion that was completed last November,” announced that he is planning to step … Read More
  
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• Top 10 most expensive works of art sold at UK auctions - in pictures

  30-01-2015 15:00
  
  A Claude Monet painting of the Grand Canal in Venice is expected to fetch £20-30m when it goes under the hammer on Tuesday. Here are the 10 most expensive works of art ever sold at auction in the UK.
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  30-01-2015 14:53
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• Conductor Israel Yinon dies after collapsing onstage

  30-01-2015 14:52
  
  Celebrated conductor Israel Yinon collapsed during a performance at a Swiss music festival and died despite attempts to revive him by an audience-member.
  
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• Venezuela Expo Tattoo 2015: Extreme body art from 'Vampire Woman' to 109mm earlobes

  30-01-2015 12:43
  
  How do tattoo and body modification artists get on in airport scanners? They have more piercings than those little dishes where you place your car keys and watches can cope with.
  
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• Constable painting sells for £3.5m just 18 months after selling for £3,500

  30-01-2015 11:10
  
  A John Constable painting has sold at auction for almost £3.5 million, just eighteen months after it was bought for £3,500.
  
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• PhilOrch Keeps Yannick For Five More Years

  30-01-2015 10:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s] current contract runs through 2017, which means the new five-year deal extends his tenure to 2022.” With the president/CEO and board chairman having extended their terms as well, the Philadelphia Orchestra has the stability it will need to do the major fundraising it also needs.
  
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• “American Sniper”, War, Fiction, And Real-World Politics

  30-01-2015 10:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These films strip away almost all of the moral and political ambiguities of international conflict, in its place giving us a singular tale of physical and mental heroics dripping in red, white, and blue. It’s hard as an American to not be affected at some level. Although an unintended consequence of such powerful patriotic storytelling […]
  
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• What Moviegoers In Baghdad Think Of “American Sniper”

  30-01-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mohammed says one of the film’s opening scenes, when Kyle spots a woman and child who appear to be preparing to attack US troops during the initial invasion of Iraq, had the entire audience on the edge of their seats. ‘When the sniper was hesitating to shoot [the child holding the RPG] everyone was yelling […]
  
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• Rod McKuen, 81, Poet And Songwriter

  30-01-2015 10:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[He was] the husky-voiced ‘King of Kitsch’ whose avalanche of music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and ’70s overwhelmed critical mockery and made him an Oscar-nominated songwriter and one of the best-selling poets in history.”
  
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• The Most Powerful Artwork I Have Ever Seen (By Jerry Saltz)

  30-01-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I don’t want to sound like an insane art-critic version of Werner Herzog rhapsodizing about ‘albino alligators.’ All I know is that something seismic hit me …, some capacious cognizance, cryptic, wakeful.”
  
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• Unborn in America, Vault Festival, London: A dismal experience in the Waterloo Vaults

  30-01-2015 10:00
  
  You don’t arm yourself with pompous critical criteria when you go to a show advertising itself as a cabaret opera in the vaults underneath Waterloo station. You take your pleasure as it comes, and here it starts with the graffiti artists busy with their spray cans in the street outside.
  
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• Why is Nick Clegg going on The Last Leg?

  30-01-2015 10:00
  
  David Cameron was on the Today programme earlier this week, and he signed off on his lightly tetchy interview with Justin Webb with a joke. Or what passes for a joke in Westminster – he did an impression of Tony Benn saying the word “ishoos.”
  
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• Fighting Back Against “Wolf Hall”‘s Slander Of Thomas More (With Help From Holbein)

  30-01-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jonathan Jones: “Why does Wolf Hall demonise one of the most brilliant and forward-looking of all Renaissance people? Its caricature of Thomas More as a charmless prig, a humourless alienating nasty piece of work, is incredibly unfair. You only have to consider one of Hans Holbein’s greatest works to see this.”
  
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• Yes, Artists Need Funding – But We Shouldn’t Take It From Oil Companies

  30-01-2015 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Playwright Mark Ravenhill: “For some 30 years now, many of us in the arts have prided ourselves on our skills as conmen. We can find the money, wherever it may be. And we can take it. And run. … But after all this time, aren’t we now starting to wonder who’s been fooling who?”
  
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• At Long Last, Peru Is Getting A National Museum

  30-01-2015 09:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Strangely enough, despite its rich cultural and artistic history, the country hasn’t had a large-scale national museum until now. … The new museum will make its home at the storied Pachacamac, an archaeological site southeast of Lima that’s passed through many hands since the Early Intermediate period.”
  
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• Mental Health Issues Affect 20% Of Theatre Professionals, Survey Finds

  30-01-2015 09:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The survey, which was open to everyone in the sector and completed by more than 5,000 people, found that 46% of those who answered a question about the state of their mental health described it as either poor or average, and that 20% had actively sought help about their mental well-being.”
  
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• Humans’ Age-Old Fantasy Of Animals That Can Talk

  30-01-2015 09:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’ve had the fantasy for thousands of years – from Aesop and Plato, through the Roman de Fauvel and Montaigne and Lewis Carroll and Orwell and Disney, right through to Mr. Ed and Dogbert and LOLcats and Doge. “We polish an animal mirror to look for ourselves. But perhaps that mirror is more suited for […]
  
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• These Filmmakers Staged A Canine Rebellion With 200 Real Dogs

  30-01-2015 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the upcoming movie White God, … the canine actor Bodie plays Hagen, a mutt that – after he is separated from his owner – leads an uprising of hundreds of dogs against the men who mistreat and abuse them.” The director, the animal trainer, and Bodie tell us how they pulled it off. (video)
  
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• It’s Okay To Be An Overbearing Pet Parent (Thank God)

  30-01-2015 09:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Neurotic people probably make pretty great pet owners, concludes the author of a new study … In an online survey of about 1,000 pet owners, people who scored higher in neuroticism and conscientiousness also reported higher levels of affection for their dog or cat, which most likely means a better life for the animals.”
  
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• Unknown sketch of Van Gogh to be unveiled

  30-01-2015 08:05
  
  Rare depiction by Emile Bernard will go on show at Kunsthalle Bremen
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.29.15

  30-01-2015 07:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Goshen Commotion: Kimmelman’s Belated, Muddled Plea to Save Architect Paul Rudolph’s Masterpiece AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-01-29 The Death of a Great Video Store AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-01-29 Dick Vartanian’s Little Book AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-01-29
  
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• Nástio Mosquito, Ruth Ewan, James Rigler: this week’s new exhibitions

  30-01-2015 07:00
  
  From Nástio Mosquito’s multimedia persona-building in Birmingham to James Rigler’s experimental ceramics in Glasgow, find out what’s happening in art around the countryWhile this might be Nástio Mosquito’s first solo exhibition within the hallowed realms of a gallery, he has for some time been recognised as a spirited presence at music festivals and online. Indeed, it is experience performing in front of a crowd that affords his art its live-wire, rock-comic presence. Presenting
  
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