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• Kiev biennial venue withdraws support citing war-time conditions

  24-03-2015 21:55
  
  But Austrian curators say they will carry on with the exhibition
  
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• To the Ivory Towers! Robert Barry at Hunter, Quilts at Lehman College

  24-03-2015 21:08 via artnews.com
  For a few years around 1970, Robert Barry was the most far-out artist in the game. He was popping off one canny idea after another, finding new ways to make art without objects, redrawing the accepted boundaries. In 1968 he … Read More
  
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• Amazon.com To Be London’s Theatre Ticket-Seller

  24-03-2015 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  A spokesman for Amazon said that, up until this week, the retailer’s theatre ticket offering had been based around “deals” and discounted tickets. “Although that will still be the case for some shows, this is a move to being a genuine ticketer. We are moving away from deals to offering the full range of ticket […]
  
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• Barcelona’s Museum of Contemporary Art Loses Its Director In Censorship Row

  24-03-2015 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (Macba), Bartomeu Marí, has resigned in light of a censorship row over a controversial installation on display at the museum, which shows the former Spanish king in a sexual act with a dog.”
  
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• No, Pay-As-You-Go Cable Won’t Lower Your TV Bill

  24-03-2015 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The big misunderstanding about the current system is that we are somehow paying through our cable bills the actual per-channel cost for all the channels we don’t watch. Broadcasting distributors are really selling us access; the bigger the bill, the more choice is offered. Complaining about unwatched channels is a bit like complaining about the […]
  
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• Desperately seeking Diego: my search for Velázquez on the streets of Seville

  24-03-2015 20:17
  
  He started with streetsellers and rose to paint the king. But what made Diego Velázquez such a compassionate, yet unflinching painter? Jonathan Jones searches for clues in the place of his birthIt’s a Saturday evening in Seville and locals are flocking out of tapas bars into churches. I follow them. In front of a magnificent golden altar in one baroque church, a huge crowd is gathering for mass. I admire a float laden with candles and a statue of the Virgin Mary, ready to be pulled through th
  
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• Montreal film festival has full slate of art documentaries

  24-03-2015 20:00
  
  Fifa fare includes a look into the life of art market star Marc Quinn, Hitler’s trove of looted art and Egyptian artists involved in the Arab Spring
  
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• Radiohead's 'sixth member' Stanley Donwood on how flame-throwing brought them together

  24-03-2015 19:32
  
  It has been 20 years and seven albums since the man known unofficially as Radiohead's sixth member created the gasping, mannequin-like face that adorned The Bends. Stanley Donwood has since worked closely with the Oxfordshire rock band to create all their album art and posters.
  
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• From Radiohead to JG Ballard: Stanley Donwood and his chemical reactions

  24-03-2015 19:32
  
  It has been 20 years and seven albums since the man known unofficially as Radiohead's sixth member created the gasping, mannequin-like face that adorned The Bends. Stanley Donwood has since worked closely with the Oxfordshire rock band to create all their album art and posters.
  
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• Phillips 2.0: Can Auction Veteran Ed Dolman Turn Around the World’s Third-Place House?

  24-03-2015 19:30 via artnews.com
  On a gray Sunday last October, during Frieze Week in London, Phillips auction house opened its new headquarters in a 73,000-square-foot building on tony Berkeley Square, with renovations by architects Aukett Swanke. Visitors sipped champagne and orange juice next to … Read More
  
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• Phillips 2.0: Can Auction Veteran Ed Dolman Turn Around the Art World’s Third-Place House?

  24-03-2015 19:30 via artnews.com
  On a gray Sunday last October, during Frieze Week in London, Phillips auction house opened its new headquarters in a 73,000-square-foot building on tony Berkeley Square, with renovations by architects Aukett Swanke. Visitors sipped champagne and orange juice next to … Read More
  
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• Sinatra: An American Idol review - too lightweight to capture the crooner's class

  24-03-2015 19:27
  
  A new exhibition based on the life of Frank Sinatra impresses in places but its lack of depth wrongly obscures the complex charisma that guided his careerIt’s an irony Frank Sinatra would appreciate: his official career retrospective, a glossy exhibition that takes great pains to minimize his legacy of snap-brim libertinism and dark motivations, opens by accidentally emphasizing his connection to the mafia.To be fair, the large gold lettering “M.O.B. Assn” that greets viewers of Sinatra: A
  
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• Sinatra: An American Icon review - too lightweight to capture the crooner's class

  24-03-2015 19:27
  
  A new exhibition based on the life of Frank Sinatra impresses in places but its lack of depth wrongly obscures the complex charisma that guided his careerIt’s an irony Frank Sinatra would appreciate: his official career retrospective, a glossy exhibition that takes great pains to minimize his legacy of snap-brim libertinism and dark motivations, opens by accidentally emphasizing his connection to the mafia.To be fair, the large gold lettering “M.O.B. Assn” that greets viewers of Sinatra: A
  
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• Barcelona museum director steps down over controversial sculpture

  24-03-2015 18:25
  
  Ines Doujak’s work shows a former Spanish king in a sexual act with a dog
  
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• Art Dubai grows wise in a maturing market

  24-03-2015 17:11
  
  Bold installations sell to ideas-driven regional collectors
  
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• Amnesty International Honors Joan Baez and Ai Weiwei with Joint 2015 Human Rights Award

  24-03-2015 17:04 via artnews.com
  A Reuters article reported today that Amnesty International has presented its 2015 human rights award to both Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and American folksinger Joan Baez. Ai, a vocal critic of the Chinese government, has been banned from leaving China … Read More
  
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• Cory Arcangel To Release Upcoming Show Catalog As Teen Magazine

  24-03-2015 16:58 via artnews.com
  In an online interview published today by Dazed, Cory Arcangel explained that the catalog for his upcoming exhibition at Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo in Milan will take the form of a teen magazine in the mold of … Read More
  
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• Phoenix Art Museum Gets $2.5 M. Gift From Selig Family

  24-03-2015 16:14 via artnews.com
  It was reported today by the Scottsdale Independent that The Phoenix Art Museum has received a $2.5 million dollar gift from former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and his wife Suzanne, with the expressed intention of funding a chief … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Clara Serena Rubens Edition

  24-03-2015 14:25 via artnews.com
  A portrait of Rubens’ 12-year-old daughter Clara Serena, which was recently deaccessioned by the Met, is going to be housed at the Rubenshuis in Antwerp. It was previously attributed to a follower of Rubens, and estimated at $20,000-$30,000 in 2013. It will … Read More
  
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• Art Basel Hong Kong: artist Richard Wilson parks the bus … The Italian Job way

  24-03-2015 14:01
  
  Hang on a Minute Lads … I’ve Got a Great Idea – one of the most quoted lines of film dialogue is the inspiration for this daring public art installation by British artist Richard Wilson. Here, a vintage twin-axel Harrington Legionnaire bus appears to be teetering on the edge of the Sun Terrace at Hong Kong’s Peninsula Hotel. The installation – which will hang around until 8 April – is part of the third Art Basel Hong Kong, in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts Continue read
  
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• Rubenshuis director says Clara Serena portrait ‘is by Rubens’

  24-03-2015 10:00
  
  Work deaccessioned by Met fetched almost 20 times its auction estimate in 2013
  
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• As connoisseurship becomes easier, it has never been less fashionable

  24-03-2015 10:00
  
  Bendor Grosvenor goes behind the scenes of the reattribution of Rubens’ Clara Serena portrait
  
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• Tears and technology: inside Björk's virtual reality video for Stonemilker

  24-03-2015 07:06
  
  Emily Mackay dons a headset and steps into an Icelandic landscape for the musician’s immersive new video experience Music videos that make a virtue of innovation tend to hammer the point home with bells and whistles, spaceships and explosions: for example, Michael and Janet Jackson’s Scream, Kanye’s Power or more recently, Azealia Banks’ mirror-game for Wallace or Arcade Fire’s interactive We Used to Wait.However, the premiere of Björk’s immersive virtual reality video for Stone
  
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• After decades of being traded around the world, portrait by El Greco returned to heirs

  24-03-2015 07:00
  
  Work owned by Viennese industrialist who fled to Mexico to escape Nazis is finally recovered
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.23.15

  24-03-2015 05:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dynamic pricing and market segmentation at the theatre (and the hospital) AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-03-23 Keep Talking About What Art Means AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2015-03-22 Crystal Bridges Reshuffles PostWar Galleries With 2014 Acquisitions AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-03-22 Spike Wilner On Playing For Listeners AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-03-23 An Arts […]
  
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• Senior Manager, Communications – Hammer Museum

  24-03-2015 04:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Be part of The Hammer Museum which champions the art and artists who challenge us to see the world in a new light, to experience the unexpected, to ignite our imaginations, and inspire change.
  
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• The Photograph and Australia review – superb study of national identity

  24-03-2015 03:44
  
  Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
  Major new survey examines the place of image-making and truth-telling in the Australian national story, boldly mixing history and contemporary artThere are certain truisms about our relationship to photography that have stood the test of time. We might consider the photograph to be inherently truthful, but we also distrust it. In the context of science or the law, the photograph is used as evidence, as an exact representation of what has happened, but in other contexts
  
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• The Photograph and Australia review – a superb study of national identity

  24-03-2015 03:44
  
  Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
  Major new survey examines the place of image-making and truth-telling in the Australian national story, boldly mixing history and contemporary artThere are certain truisms about our relationship to photography that have stood the test of time. We might consider the photograph to be inherently truthful, but we also distrust it. In the context of science or the law, the photograph is used as evidence, as an exact representation of what has happened, but in other contexts
  
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• Painting by Hitler goes to auction

  24-03-2015 02:59
  
  Early still-life watercolour of flowers, to go under the hammer in Los Angeles, was painted by future Nazi leader in 1912A still-life watercolor painting of flowers by a young Adolf Hitler will be sold at auction in Los Angeles this week, organisers have announced.
  The 1912 canvas, painted by the future Nazi leader when he was a struggling artist in his mid-20s, is going under the hammer at the Nate D Sanders auction house on Thursday. Continue reading...
  
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