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• Hogarth for our times is chosen to chronicle the general election

  21-03-2015 16:37
  
  Commons choice as the official artist says he will travel the length and breadth of BritainFrom impassioned public oratory to inevitable political gaffes, the general election campaign is to be officially chronicled by a modern-day Hogarth, in the shape of the playful British artist Adam Dant.Commissioned by the House of Commons Speaker’s advisory committee on works of art to cover the runup to 7 May, Dant draws narrative tableaux similar to those made by the great 18th-century social satirist
  
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• Election artist plans to draw on Hogarth as he eyes up voters

  21-03-2015 16:37
  
  Commons choice as the official chronicler says he will travel the length and breadth of BritainFrom impassioned public oratory to inevitable political gaffes, the general election campaign is to be officially chronicled by a modern-day Hogarth, in the shape of the playful British artist Adam Dant.Commissioned by the House of Commons Speaker’s advisory committee on works of art to cover the runup to 7 May, Dant draws narrative tableaux similar to those made by the great 18th-century social sati
  
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• The Biennial Boom

  21-03-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  The 56th Venice Biennale, which opens in a little over a month, may be one of the world’s best-known and most prestigious art festivals, but in the past 20 years or so it’s gotten a lot of company on the … Read More
  
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• Defining beauty: the Body in Ancient Greek Art at the British Museum gives visitors quite an eyeful

  21-03-2015 13:00
  
  From fitness magazines to dating apps, you don’t have to look far for evidence of our modern society’s obsession with the body beautiful. But for all the think-piece chatter, this veneration of the toned and chiselled is hardlya 21st-century phenomenon: get a load of those Ancient Greeks, as you can at the British Museum’s spring blockbuster exhibition Defining Beauty.
  
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• Ydessa Hendeles, Hew Locke, Jessica Ramm: this week’s new exhibitions

  21-03-2015 10:00
  
  From Ydessa Hendeles in London to Jessica Ramm in Glasgow, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the countryThrough the work of her now-closed art foundation in Toronto, Ydessa Hendeles has acquired a rep as a master showman, pioneering curation as a form of high theatre. No neutral gallery walls for this collector-turned-artist-curator: her mix of contemporary art, movie memorabilia and historical curiosities are typically found sharing space in installations t
  
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• In search of lost time with my father, Clive James

  21-03-2015 07:45
  
  Angela Neustatter meets artist Claerwen James and her father, writer and broadcaster Clive James – and finds he is making up for all the years he wasn’t around for his familySince Claerwen James abandoned a promising career as a molecular biologist in 1999 and went to the Slade School of Fine Art, she has painted exquisitely wrought pictures of small children, who seem lost in a wistful world of their own. She denies they are intentionally autobiographical, but they do resonate with the sadn
  
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• Here come the girls

  21-03-2015 07:45
  
  Claerwen James’s paintings of melancholic children are shown here courtesy of Flowers Gallery, London and New York Continue reading...
  
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• Claerwen James: portraits of melancholy children - in pictures

  21-03-2015 07:45
  
  The artist’s paintings are shown here courtesy of Flowers Gallery, London and New YorkIn search of list time with my father, Clive
  Claerwen James exhibition, Flowers Gallery, London, 19 March - 18 April 2015
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• A First: Revenue From Stream Music Beats CD Sales For First Time

  21-03-2015 04:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “According to data on music sales from the Recording Industry Association of America, sales in the US from streaming music were $1.87 billion in 2014, the RIAA said, while CD sales were $1.85 billion.”
  
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• Study: Listening To Music Improves Heart Health

  21-03-2015 04:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A newly published, small-scale study from Greece finds listening to either classical or rock music positively impacts two important predictors of cardiovascular risk. The effects are particularly pronounced for classical music fans, who, in the study, had a more robust physiological response to music of either genre.”
  
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• Boston Globe Seeks Living/Arts Feature Writer

  21-03-2015 04:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Boston Globe is looking to hire a features writer for its award-winning Living/Arts Department. Enterprise, energy, and superb writing skills are a must.
  
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• Artistic Director – The Wallis

  21-03-2015 04:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Wallis seeks applications for its first Artistic Director who will establish the Center as a nationally-recognized leader in the performing arts and arts education.
  
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