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• Here Are the 6,430 Works That the National Gallery of Art Is Acquiring From the Corcoran

  05-02-2015 23:48 via artnews.com
  Today the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., released a list of works it is acquiring from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which voted last year to dissolve after years of financial woes. The list is massive, numbering some 6,430 objects … Read More
  
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• Lynda Benglis – sensuality, sex toys and sea creatures in major retrospective

  05-02-2015 22:46
  
  Hepworth Wakefield show ranges over long career of artist who’s made use of materials from gold to foamStanding in the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, next to her towering crystalline sculpture The Graces, artist Lynda Benglis offers some advice to those viewing her work.“Think of crawfish, think of crawfish holes, think of water, think of swimming, think of diving, think of sea creatures and also think of rocks and caves,” she says. “Think of metal; metal that you find in the dirt when y
  
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• 2015 Frieze Projects Program Announced

  05-02-2015 22:42 via artnews.com
  Details of the 2015 Frieze Projects Program–happening during the Frieze New York art fair and featuring six new commissioned artworks spread throughout the fair and around Randall’s Island Park–were announced earlier today. The non-profit program, curated by Cecilia Alemani, will … Read More
  
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• Manager of Relationship Marketing, Philadelphia Orchestra

  05-02-2015 22:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Manager of Relationship Marketing oversees several critical elements of marketing and sales at The Philadelphia Orchestra.
  
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• Paula Crown on Her Marlborough Show: ‘I’m Painting with the Tools of Technology’

  05-02-2015 22:04 via artnews.com
  Tonight at Marlborough Gallery on 57th Street in Manhattan, Paula Crown opens “The Sublime and the Center: Dimensions of Landscape.” Spread across a variety of mediums, the show all stems from a series of drawings Crown made while flying in … Read More
  
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• Bloomsbury London Auctioning Off Vintage NASA Photos

  05-02-2015 20:40 via artnews.com
  On February 26, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury London will be auctioning nearly 700 photos taken in space and on the moon, dating from the very first photo outside the Earth’s atmosphere in 1946–from the launch of a V2 rocket–to the final … Read More
  
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• Roger White’s ‘The Contemporaries’ Ventures Nimbly Through Today’s Art World

  05-02-2015 20:27 via artnews.com
  Comprehensive, clear-eyed books about the art world are few and far between. Anthony Haden-Guest’s True Colors (1998) offers a juicy look at the 1980s market surge, as Mary Boone swilled Champagne at Odeon, and Sarah Thornton’s Seven Days in the … Read More
  
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• Lynda Benglis review: all vitality and good dirty fun

  05-02-2015 20:20
  
  Benglis has always gone her own way, and this has sometimes got her into trouble, but trouble can lead to interesting artLynda Benglis’s sculptures drool and slump. They flex, they tie themselves in knots and fly across the walls. They are full of variety and contradiction. Benglis is great at inchoate mute lumps and just as good with delicacy, the decorative and highly crafted.For me, her retrospective at the Hepworth Wakefield is a revelation. I never realised she was so playful and dirty, i
  
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• The Little Record Label That Could

  05-02-2015 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Manfred Eicher’s approach has changed the cultural conversation more than once, while making serious contributions to musical life. Why haven’t more companies replicated ECM’s model?”
  
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• Florence Bourgeois to Head Paris Photo, Christoph Wiesner Named Artistic Director

  05-02-2015 18:45 via artnews.com
  Florence Bourgeois has been named the director of Paris Photo and Paris Photo Los Angeles, the next of which will run at Paramount Pictures Studios from May 1 through May 3, 2015. The major fair has been without a director … Read More
  
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• Quiet Darkness: Victor Vaughn and Edward Shenk on Their ‘King Of The Hill’ ‘Fan-Gaze Removals’

  05-02-2015 18:43 via artnews.com
  In 2014, the artists Victor Vaughn and Edward Shenk were commissioned by the digital-arts organization Rhizome to make new work for the online magazine Dazed. What resulted was a series of images that featured appropriated and reconfigured imagery from the … Read More
  
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• Diary From Gitmo (Unless You Were In Any Doubt As To What’s Happening There)

  05-02-2015 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Thirteen years after it opened, the literature on the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay has become extensive. There are works of journalism, collections of documents, scholarly analyses, novels and some searing memoirs, such as those by the former detainees Ahmed Errachidi and Moazzam Begg. But there has never been a book quite like this: […]
  
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• Skate’s Examines Marina Picasso’s Planned Picasso Selloff

  05-02-2015 18:30 via artnews.com
  As you may have seen yesterday, The New York Times is reporting that Marina Picasso, a granddaughter of Pablo, is planning to sell off a trove of the master’s work that she owns, worrying some that it could harm the Picasso … Read More
  
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• Did Science REALLY Figure Out What Makes Male Dancing Sexy? (Provenance Of An Internet Story)

  05-02-2015 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Certain science stories seem to come out like cicadas, swarming the Internet for a month or two before retreating underground for several years until the next cycle of coverage begins.”
  
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• Study: Going To The Theatre Is Scotland’s Favorite Live Arts Activity

  05-02-2015 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Theatregoing is the second most popular cultural activity in Scotland after the cinema, according to a survey that shows that 32% of Scots went to the theatre in 2013.”
  
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• Warning: Could London Become Unsustainable For Artists?

  05-02-2015 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If I’m worried about anything about the future of the arts in this country, it’s the future of the arts in London. Because I think London is becoming unsustainable as a city for artistic creativity, because it’s so expensive. The amount of young directors, writers, actors I know who are moving to Cardiff, Edinburgh, Birmingham, […]
  
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• How Can You Tell If An Author Is Being “Authentic”?

  05-02-2015 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Tackling an author who is new to us, it can be hard to tell whether the work is authentic or not. In which case, best to enjoy the perplexity of not quite knowing how serious our author is, weighing the arguments on both sides, reading another novel to see how it fits. This is part […]
  
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• Andres Serrano On The Corrosive Effects Of Self-Censorship

  05-02-2015 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Nearly 30 years later, in response to the Paris massacre, the Associated Press removed an image of Piss Christ from its editorial archives. We’ve seen the same impulse for self-censorship in the West before, as we see it in the refusal of many media outlets to publish the Charlie Hebdo cartoons at the heart of […]
  
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• New Edinburgh Festival Director Warns That Festival’s Status Is In Jeopardy

  05-02-2015 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fergus Linehan has taken charge at a time of uncertainty over budgets, with a bid for an extra £1.73 million for the next three years rejected by Creative Scotland and the possibility of cuts to its grant from Edinburgh City Council. The EIF’s funding has been largely static for the past eight years, which, arguably […]
  
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• Frank Oteri’s List Of The Ten Best American Symphonies

  05-02-2015 16:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Since we’re New Music USA after all, I thought I’d further up the ante with a list devoted exclusively to works by American composers. But since I’m also FJO, I couldn’t limit myself to one per number and even broke a few of the rules (as you’ll see)…”
  
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• Wary Of Terrorism, Paris Cuts Action Movie Filming

  05-02-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Fearing that actors could be mistaken for police – and chase scenes confused for the real thing – Paris is sharply restricting filming of action movies in the city that been the stage for some of film’s most memorable high-octane sequences.”
  
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• 14 Museums Band Together To Build American Art Database

  05-02-2015 16:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The 14 partners will meet Wednesday and Thursday at Smithsonian American Art Museum to begin the process of building the database. While the American Art Museum has already converted its data to LOD, many of its partners are just beginning.”
  
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• Technology Is Making Us Better, Safer, Right? (Until It Isn’t)

  05-02-2015 16:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Just as technology pacifies once-dangerous events, sometimes the needle swings in the other direction. Call it a reverse sublime, a return of the repressed: a thing that was once safe becomes dangerous.”
  
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• The Universal Language Of Science Is English. Should It Be?

  05-02-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This point is much easier to sustain if the speaker grew up speaking English, but the majority of scientists working today are actually not native English speakers. When you consider the time spent by them on language-learning, the English-language conquest is not more efficient than polyglot science – it is just differently inefficient.”
  
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• Trade breathes a sigh of relief as London auctions bring in over £370m in first week

  05-02-2015 16:15
  
  Buyers at the Impressionist and Modern art sales were undeterred by the economic backdrop—and Sotheby’s new premiums
  
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• Cultural Shift: The App Industry Is Now Bigger Than Hollywood Entertainment Industry

  05-02-2015 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  “To me, that the American app industry may eclipse the American film industry is more interesting for what it means culturally. There’s a growing sense that the products of the sector we usually call “tech” are attaining cultural primacy—the web is the new TV.”
  
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• Authentic Success: Kathleen White 1960–2014

  05-02-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  When Kathleen White moved to New York in 1987 she didn’t have any friends, so she painted one. That’s the quick story of a picture I can legitimately call haunting: My Friend. Seated, or perched, on a yellowish plinth that … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: February 5, 2015 Edition

  05-02-2015 15:07 via artnews.com
  Marina Abramović designs plates for Bernardaud. “This star plate, Ms. Abramović said, should make us think ‘what is beyond the cosmos.'” [The Wall Street Journal] Walter Liedtke, a curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was killed … Read More
  
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• Carlos Bunga, artist: 'I work with an open mind and do not know what exactly will happen'

  05-02-2015 15:00
  
  I am in a suburb just outside Barcelona along the sea. Carlos Bunga has been living and working here for the past three years, renting a modern property for himself, his wife, a curator at Museu d'Arti di Art Contemporani (MACBA) in Barcelona, and his two small daughters.
  
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• Carlos Bunga, artist: 'I normally work with an open mind and do not know what exactly will happen'

  05-02-2015 15:00
  
  I am in a suburb just outside Barcelona along the sea. Carlos Bunga has been living and working here for the past three years, renting a modern property for himself, his wife, a curator at Museu d'Arti di Art Contemporani (MACBA) in Barcelona, and his two small daughters.
  
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• Lena Dunham's artist mum Laurie Simmons: Women are still fighting to hold onto basic human rights

  05-02-2015 14:41
  
  Lena Dunham often champions her mother as her feminist role model. And looking at Laurie Simmons’ photographs it is easy to see where she gets her inspiration from.
  
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• The Simpsons in Auschwitz: Harrowing aleXsandro Palombo cartoons mark 70th anniversary of death camp liberation

  05-02-2015 12:50
  
  When reflecting on the horrors of Auschwitz, the last thing you think of is Homer Simpson. After all, The Simpsons usually provokes laughter, not sorrow.
  
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• Bafta brochure covers – in pictures

  05-02-2015 12:19
  
  A sneaky peek at the brochure for guests attending the EE British Academy film awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London. The illustrations by French artist Malika Favre depict the five nominees for best film. Bafta covers are available to buy from baftaprints.org. The awards will be on the 8 February on BBC 1 at 9.00pm
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• Why we hate selfies so much | SE Smith

  05-02-2015 12:01
  
  Selfies are deemed to not have any artistic value because they are produced on a mass-market medium –and usually by womenIf you peruse my Instagram feed, you’ll find an assortment of images. Food, cats, random things I see on my travels. And pictures of myself, mostly taken by myself. (I am a greedy and jealous person who rarely hands my phone over to people.) People have been taking pictures of themselves, in one form or another, for an extremely long time. Ancient works of art clearly demo
  
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• Mexico's street art tells stories of grief, anger and resistance | Sam Jones

  05-02-2015 11:54
  
  Murals produced by the street artist collective Lapiztola are highlighting Mexico’s social and political issues, from disappeared students to drug lords and migrants• All images courtesy of Global Justice NowNine years ago, as its streets filled with flames, anger and water cannon, the walls of Oaxaca began to speak.
  Stencilled commentaries – here a defiant fist clutching a pencil here, there a hooded figure lobbing a Molotov cocktail or, more subversively, a book – appeared on buildin
  
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• Five Monets, £55M, One Hour – Just Part Of London’s Richest Art Auction Ever

  05-02-2015 10:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The evening auction on Tuesday raised an overall total of £186.44m, almost £50m over Sotheby’s estimate, and broke auction records for five individual works by artists including Seurat and Malevich as bidders from 35 different countries clamoured to get their hands on the many iconic works up for sale.”
  
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• Met Museum Curator Walter Liedtke Killed In NY Train Crash

  05-02-2015 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[He] served for 35 years as a curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was a renowned scholar on Vermeer and the Delft School.”
  
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• Simon Rattle Talks Sibelius

  05-02-2015 10:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Berlin Philharmonic’s chief conductor and Finnish music journalist/Sibelius expert Vesa Sirén spend an hour talking about the composer’s music – and what the Philharmoniker find easy and difficult about it. (video interview in English, web page in Finnish)
  
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• Marilyn’s thighs, a wake-up call, and night-time women graffiti artists: this is Saudi Arabia

  05-02-2015 08:39
  
  Street art exhibition organised for Jeddah’s 21,39 arts festival shows that nothing is black and white in this small but passionate art scene
  
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• Photo London aims to tap a rising British market

  05-02-2015 08:14
  
  Exhibitors are a mix of established photography dealers and edgy young galleries
  
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• How did Queen Victoria and Prince Albert stack up as artists?

  05-02-2015 08:10
  
  Etchings made by the royal couple will be shown at the London Original Print Fair in April
  
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• Major work on Greenwich’s Baroque masterpiece begins

  05-02-2015 08:07
  
  Conservators will treat works covering 3,700 sq. m in the Old Royal Naval College’s Painted Hall
  
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• New York leans to the left under mayor’s plans for art

  05-02-2015 08:03
  
  De Blasio focuses on diversity, social value and access for all
  
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• Book ahead, Australia: Melbourne fashion, Revealed art, babies proms

  05-02-2015 02:37
  
  In our weekly tout of the hottest tickets just released, book now to see the best of Australian fashion, little kids bashing the glockenspiel and London’s favourite dance party boy in action He confounded expectations with his debut solo album, then changed the game up again with this year’s release Trick. Now Kele Okereke, formerly lead singer of Bloc Party, brings his new “confident, carnal disco” second album to Australia and New Zealand. With his love of drum n bass, techno, garage a
  
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• Kurt Seligmann Makes $262,000 Artist Record at Sotheby’s London

  05-02-2015 00:01 via artnews.com
  Witches, a 1950 painting by the Surrealist Kurt Seligmann (1990–62), one of the lesser-known people in the movement, set a record for the artist last night at the Surrealist Art Evening Sale at Sotheby’s London, going for £173,000 (about $262,000), with … Read More
  
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