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• Eric Clapton Continues Auction Sales With Cy Twombly

  03-02-2015 22:52 via artnews.com
  Next week in London Eric Clapton will sell a Cy Twombly painting from 1969 that he bought in 2012 for under $6 million that now bears that low estimate, The Daily Telegraph reports. The news follows a streak of recent … Read More
  
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• His Struggle: Norwegian Mischief-Maker Bjarne Melgaard Meets Edvard Munch in Oslo

  03-02-2015 21:34 via artnews.com
  “He’s a very crazy man,” my taxi Norwegian driver, Viktor, told me on the way to the Munch Museum in Oslo. “Makes a lot of scandals.” He was speaking of Bjarne Melgaard, who is Norway’s most infamous living artist, like … Read More
  
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• Jerry Saltz Is the First Art Critic Ever to Win a National Magazine Award for His Column

  03-02-2015 21:15 via artnews.com
  Last night the American Society of Magazine Editors announced the winners of its National Magazine Awards, also known as the ASMEs, or the Ellies, after the title of the Alexander Calder-designed elephant trophy given to those winners. You can see … Read More
  
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• Call to save 20th century public art after Paolozzi mosaic is removed

  03-02-2015 20:58
  
  Works by sculptor–artist are under threat during revamp of Tottenham Court Road tube stationA leading conservation body has called for a “Domesday Book” survey of 20th century public art after Transport for London removed a section of a mosaic by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi as part of a tube station overhaul.The 20th Century Society, which campaigns to protect the period’s design and architecture, says a national register would help to stop works being lost before their value is realised. Conti
  
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• Chicago Music Critic Andrew Patner, 55

  03-02-2015 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Patner’s sharp commentary and criticism, found in two weekly WFMT programs, ranged widely, from classical music and opera to theater, dance, visual art, books and films. He also contributed articles to numerous publications, including Art & Antiques, The New Yorker, Christian Science Monitor and New Art Examiner.”
  
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• National Gallery director Nicholas Penny booed by staff over privitisation

  03-02-2015 20:39
  
  Outgoing National Gallery director Nicholas Penny has become so unpopular with employees over his privatisation plans that he was booed at a recent staff meeting, The Independent can reveal.
  
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• National Gallery director Nicholas Penny booed by staff over privatisation

  03-02-2015 20:39
  
  Outgoing National Gallery director Nicholas Penny has become so unpopular with employees over his privatisation plans that he was booed at a recent staff meeting, The Independent can reveal.
  
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• Nitsch ‘deeply hurt’ over cancelled show in Mexico City

  03-02-2015 19:05
  
  Museum Jumex gives no explanation but use of animal carcasses could be a reason
  
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• Drones, AK-47s and grenades: Afghan war rugs

  03-02-2015 18:48
  
  Afghan weavers have been incorporating contemporary images of war into their rugs since 1979, when Soviet forces occupied major areas of the country. Following 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan, helicopters, hand grenades, and even predator drones have begun to feature in the intricate designs. Online business WarRug.com has been curating some of the best examples from the region since the mid 1990s, with prices ranging from $300 up to several thousand. All photographs: Kevin Sudeith/ Warrug.
  
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• Spraying the 70s: the pioneers of British graffiti

  03-02-2015 18:43
  
  From Malcolm McLaren and the Angry Brigade to Madness and Heathcote Williams by way of George Melly’s garage, a much-admired and now reissued photo book traces the story of Britain’s graffiti pioneersIn the mid-1970s, a teenager called Lee Thompson had a fleeting moment of notoriety in the press. Inspired by an article he’d seen in a Sunday paper about nascent graffiti culture in New York, he had begun spraypainting his nickname, Kix, around north London “out of boredom”, often in the
  
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• The Long Wait: Harper Lee To Publish Second Novel

  03-02-2015 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The recently discovered book, titled “Go Set a Watchman,” was completed in the mid-1950s, in the midst of the civil rights movement. It takes place 20 years after “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Though it’s effectively a sequel, Ms. Lee actually wrote “Go Set a Watchman” first.
  
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• When Arts Organizations Get Distracted By Fundraising

  03-02-2015 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The constant pressure to increase support often generates an impulse to create something new in order to drive funding and public interest — a new fundraising event, a new educational program, a new artistic offering. This is entirely justifiable; funders tend to respond to new opportunities that broaden or deepen their philanthropic impacts. However, the […]
  
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• London’s National Gallery Workers Go On Strike

  03-02-2015 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union mounted a picket line outside the gallery in protest at plans to switch visitor services to a commercial provider.”
  
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• Report: More New Work Than Revivals In UK Theatre In 2014

  03-02-2015 18:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It found that new work – including original plays, musicals, pantomime and opera – made up 59% of all productions, 66% of all performances, 63% of all seats sold and 66% of box office income.”
  
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• This Is Progress? Toronto Has Too Many International Theatre Festivals

  03-02-2015 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Audience outreach will ultimately determine if Progress succeeds, because as it stands, Toronto likely has too few regular showgoers to sustain this boom in international theatre.
  
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• Academic Publishing Is Being Disrupted. Now What?

  03-02-2015 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Time-honored traditions appear vulnerable to overhaul or even extinction. Sarah Thomas, vice president for the Harvard Library and Larsen librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, says, “We are still in the Wild West of sorting out how we will communicate our academic developments effectively.”
  
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• Studies: Americans Overestimate Class Mobility

  03-02-2015 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Across four studies, Americans offered “substantial and consistent overestimates of class mobility, overestimating the amount of income mobility and educational access by a wide margin.”
  
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• Sealed with a Kiss: Tino Sehgal fills Leeds city centre with cavorting couples

  03-02-2015 16:45
  
  The Anglo-German artist’s live project, staged outside the Henry Moore Institute, saw dancing couples putting on a very public display of affectionA man and woman walk briskly past a fully clothed couple who are engaged in foreplay on the pavement outside the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, despite the freezing cold. “That’s unusual,” the woman says. “Don’t they have motels here? What do you think it’s about?” the man replies. This is Kiss, a live project by the artist Tino Sehga
  
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• Splendidly sturdy George Bellows nude is bought by Barber Institute

  03-02-2015 15:43
  
  Miss Bentham, once owned by Andy Warhol, becomes second work by the American painter to enter a British collectionThe splendidly sturdy Miss Bentham, a painting by the American George Bellows which was once owned by Andy Warhol, has become the first nude acquired by the renowned collection of the Barber Institute in Birmingham, where she joins works by Botticelli, Rubens, Van Dyck, Van Gogh and Picasso.It is only the second work by the painter, regarded as one of the greatest of early 20th centu
  
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• Charles Atlas: Ready for Prime Time

  03-02-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: Mr. Chow Edition

  03-02-2015 15:22 via artnews.com
  Mr. Chow has an art show on view in Beijing right now. Cash figures prominently in his works because “because I love money,” he explains. [The New York Times] The British Library is currently hosting a show of the only … Read More
  
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• Martin Honeysett obituary

  03-02-2015 14:43
  
  Brilliant and acerbic cartoonist whose work appeared in Punch, Private Eye and several national newspapersMartin Honeysett, who has died aged 71, was one of the greatest gag cartoonists Britain has produced and also one of its most brilliant artists. This combination of talents brought him a career that endured for nearly 50 years and resulted in a unique body of work. He was once asked why he drew people in such a grotesque, often cruel, way and he replied simply: “That’s the way they look.
  
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• Berlin film festival 2015: 17 key films to look out for – in pictures

  03-02-2015 13:46
  
  The Berlin film festival opens for business on Thursday with a sparkling line-up, including new films from Terrence Malick and Werner Herzog, Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes, and some obscure, little-known film about a student journalist who interviews a rich businessman Continue reading...
  
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• Vence prepares to house part of Yvon Lambert’s historic collection

  03-02-2015 09:38
  
  As the French city holds talks with the dealer, the city authorities in Avignon remain tight-lipped about the future of their 15-year-old partnership with Lambert
  
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• Vivienne Westwood’s history-tinged designs are at home in 18th-century villa

  03-02-2015 08:40
  
  The V&A is loaning ten outfits from its collection to Danson House in Kent
  
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• Doha fire station reopens as arts centre

  03-02-2015 08:26
  
  Residency programme open to artists working in the Gulf region
  
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• Come As You Are: the grungiest art of the 90s – in pictures

  03-02-2015 08:00
  
  Rewind to a hazy, grungy time when women had green hair and obsessively wore bindis, and yuppies got laptop fever ... Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s is the first major survey of US art made between the fall of the Berlin wall and 9/11
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• Glenn Lowry and Anne Pasternak Sound Off on Charlie Hebdo on NPR

  03-02-2015 03:31 via artnews.com
  This morning’s Brian Lehrer show on New York’s NPR affiliate WNYC featured Museum of Modern Art Director Glenn Lowry and Creative Time President and Artistic Director Anne Pasternak ahead of MoMA’s panel on “Charlie Hebdo, [MoMA PS1 show] Zero Tolerance, … Read More
  
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• There Are A Handful of Interesting Auction Debuts Coming Up in the London Day Sale

  03-02-2015 03:30 via artnews.com
  More and more we’ve seen Christie’s and Sotheby’s entering the market for younger artists, traditionally the domain of Phillips auction house, and Christie’s upcoming Post-War and Contemporary day sale in London on February 12 is no different. In fact, there are … Read More
  
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