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• Vulva artist transforms Colorado women's vaginas into body-positive art

  30-03-2015 22:03
  
  Jamie McCartney, creator of The Great Wall of Vagina, casts American women for new work and says of the message behind his famous plaster casts: ‘You’re normal. Whatever you’ve got down there, leave it alone’The British artist Jamie McCartney has set out to quell anxieties about female body image. This month, the artist cast hundreds of women’s vulvas in Boulder, Colorado, to create a new sculpture. His working process was broadcast live on the internet during the week-long Red Tent Re
  
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• Michael Rush, Priest Turned Museum Director, Who Led the Rose During Deaccessioning Fight, Dies at 66

  30-03-2015 21:58 via artnews.com
  Curator, writer, and actor Michael Rush, who was serving as director of Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, when, in 2009, the university attempted to deaccession the museum’s entire collection to bolster the university’s financial stability, died on Friday … Read More
  
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• Michael Rush, Priest Turned Museum Director, Who Led the Rose During Deaccessioning Fight, Dies at 65

  30-03-2015 21:58 via artnews.com
  Curator, writer, and actor Michael Rush, who was serving as director of Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, when, in 2009, the university attempted to deaccession the museum’s entire collection to bolster the university’s financial stability, died on Friday … Read More
  
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• Tracey Emin's My Bed at Tate Britain, review: In the flesh, its frankness is still arresting

  30-03-2015 21:55
  
  It’s that bed again – and it’s still unmade. And 16 years after it was first exhibited, it still provokes extreme reactions.
  
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• Pope Francis Meets With Homeless in the Sistine Chapel

  30-03-2015 21:45 via artnews.com
  Pope Francis visited 150 members of Rome’s homeless population in the Sistine Chapel last Thursday during a dinner and private tour of the Vatican organized by Papal Almoner Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, who directs the office of papal charities. After touring … Read More
  
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• Saitama, Japan Will Hold 2016 Triennial

  30-03-2015 20:47 via artnews.com
  Yet another triennial to add to the growing international mix of twice- and thrice-yearly art surveys: Artinfo reports that the city of Saitama, Japan will hold its first triennial of contemporary art, called “Envisioning the Future,” from September 24 through December 11, … Read More
  
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• Export bar on ancient Egyptian treasure sold by Northampton council

  30-03-2015 20:23
  
  ‘Outstanding’ Sekhemka statue, controversially auctioned to overseas buyer for almost £16m, prevented from leaving UK for up to a year
  A 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue, controversially sold by a local council for £15.76m, has been blocked from export by the government in the hope it can be kept in the UK.
  The statue of Sekhemka, a limestone figure which is just 75cm high, was given to Northampton Museum by the Marquess of Northampton in the late 19th century.Related: Northampton borou
  
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• Auctionata Secures $45 M. in Latest Funding Round

  30-03-2015 20:05 via artnews.com
  Online auction house Auctionata has closed its series C financing round with a total investment of €42 million ($45 million), under the advisement of international investment bank GP Bullhound. Warsaw-based MCI Management led the round, with newcomers including Hearst Ventures … Read More
  
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• Deadline Apologizes, Sort Of, For That Terrible ‘Ethnic Casting’ Article

  30-03-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Considering how much uproar the piece ignited, the apology is pretty weak, with co-editor in chief Mike Fleming Jr. seeming to place a lot of blame on the headline, which ‘created a context from which no article could recover.'”
  
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• The Man Succeeding Jon Stewart Is A South African Comedian Who’s Been On ‘The Daily Show’ Three Times

  30-03-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The appointment of [Trever] Noah, a newcomer to American television, promises to add youthful vitality and international perspective to ‘The Daily Show.’ It puts a nonwhite performer at the head of this flagship Comedy Central franchise, and one who comes with Mr. Stewart’s endorsement.”
  
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• Clark Institute Taps Francis Oakley For Interim Director

  30-03-2015 19:08 via artnews.com
  Francis Oakley has been selected by the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts to serve as its interim director when its current director, Michael Conforti, retires on August 31 after more than a decade on the job. Oakley’s resume is … Read More
  
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• Cedar Lake Ballet Shows The Perils Of Relying On A Single – And Capricious – Funder

  30-03-2015 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The big message here is that whoever that founding donor is, unless they’re willing to put enormous endowments behind their vision, their organizations won’t survive if they don’t invite other people in.”
  
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• What’s Realistic About Adolescence? Let Twitter Tell You

  30-03-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Even those YA novels which aren’t [fantasy] deal with teenage lives that are considerably more exciting than the reality – and people have noticed.” Check Twitter for #realisticYA and the even funnier #VeryRealisticYA.
  
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• How To Be An Independent Musician

  30-03-2015 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In many ways, it’s easier to be an independent artist in 2015. We can arm ourselves with knowledge about the way things work. We can put something on YouTube and it becomes popular. We can access a huge mixture of diverse music. There is a price, of course.”
  
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• Robert Clatworthy obituary

  30-03-2015 18:10
  
  Sculptor who created stylised natural forms including the monumental Horseman and Eagle at Charing Cross hospital in LondonRobert Clatworthy, who has died aged 87, was a fine sculptor whose career began in metropolitan renown and ended obscurely in mid-Wales. Although his latter years were spent in self-imposed isolation, they were far from unproductive, and he continued to make highly abstracted works that were at least as challenging as those of his youth. Indeed his late Heads, with their spl
  
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• How Public Should The Public Art Process Be?

  30-03-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ultimately, you build more support for the Percent for Art Program and more support for public art when you engage the community,” Mr. Van Bramer said. “People are asking, ‘Just include me in a meaningful way.'”
  
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• Menstruation-themed photo series artist 'censored by Instagram' says images are to demystify taboos around periods

  30-03-2015 17:42
  
  An artist whose image of herself with blood on her bed and trousers was removed from Instagram has denied uploading the picture to be provocative, saying it was aimed at challenging the taboos surrounding menstruation instead.
  
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• ‘John Armleder, Stéphane Kropf, John Tremblay, With Guests Mai-Thu Perret and Blair Thurman’ at David Kordansky, Los Angeles

  30-03-2015 17:31 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “John Armleder, Stéphane Kropf, John Tremblay, with guests Mai-Thu Perret and Blair Thurman,” which is on view at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles through April … Read More
  
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• Trying To Keep Hollywood Secrets In The Age Of SnapChat, Instagram And Whisper – And Hacking

  30-03-2015 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Post-Sony, getting people to cooperate with me has been a completely different experience,’ Ms. Zezza said. ‘Everyone gets that life has to change.'”
  
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• Google Is Adding A Mission – Documenting Street Art Before It Disappears

  30-03-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Offering the best the street art world has to offer, the Google collection is an obvious boon for fans of the medium and benefits artists by giving them worldwide exposure. But cataloging, quantifying and curating run contrary to the street art ethos adhered to by artists whose ephemeral messages admonish and amuse people around the […]
  
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• Tracey Emin's messy bed goes on display at Tate for first time in 15 years

  30-03-2015 16:41
  
  Artists wants visitors to view her once shocking installation My Bed as ‘sweet’ moment of history and ‘a portrait of a younger woman’Tracey Emin’s best known work, her 1998 monument to the heartache of a relationship breakdown, My Bed, has gone on display at Tate Britain for the first time in 15 years.The work, which Emin now describes as a portrait of a young woman, was bought last year by the German businessman and collector Count Christian Duerckheim, who has loaned the artwork to t
  
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• The Coloring Book For Adults That’s Sweeping The World

  30-03-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Fan mail poured in from busy professionals and parents who confided to Ms. Basford that they found coloring in her books relaxing. More accolades flowed on social media, as people posted images from their coloring books.”
  
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• Sound of the City: A Detroit Renaissance, Courtesy of Nick Cave

  30-03-2015 16:06 via artnews.com
  The artist Nick Cave, whose Soundsuit sculptures have become something of a fixture in contemporary art, will spearhead an expansive exhibition in Detroit beginning this summer that will consist predominantly of public performances and events throughout the metropolitan area. The … Read More
  
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• How Country Came To Rule The Airwaves

  30-03-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It wasn’t inevitable that country music would thrive in the globalized world of perpetual Facebook updates, a world whose frenetic pace can be felt in electronica, or whose nouveau riche aspirations are extolled in hip-hop.”
  
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• The selfie museum: why big art galleries should take it seriously

  30-03-2015 15:40
  
  Selfiemania has hit new heights with a wacky dedicated museum. So why are traditional galleries enforcing selfie stick bans – when it could put them out of business?Selfiemania in art galleries has reached new heights of surreal comedy at a museum in Manila. Art in Island is a museum specifically designed for taking selfies, with “paintings” you can touch, or even step inside, and unlimited, unhindered photo opportunities. It is full of 3D reproductions of famous paintings that are designe
  
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• ‘I’m Certainly Not an Idealist’: A Talk with John Currin

  30-03-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  John Currin’s show at Gagosian Beverly Hills runs through April 11. His last solo show was at Gagosian Paris in 2013. Bill Powers: You didn’t want to start this interview until it got dark out. Why is that? John Currin: … Read More
  
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• Slideshow Of A Home Once Rejected

  30-03-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These photos explore what the Chinese-American identity is, a coming-of-age story about the merging of two, sometimes polarizing, cultures. As I used art to understand our place and contributions in the country’s social landscape, I noticed something else.”
  
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• Morning Links: Fire Island Fire Edition

  30-03-2015 14:55 via artnews.com
  Goldman Sachs senior partner Valentino D. Carlotti and private investor David Shuman are joining the Guggenheim Foundation’s board of trustees. [Artforum] A Fire Island fire has destroyed Holly House, an LGBTQ artist residency. [Artforum] The American Academy of Arts and … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: A Fire on Fire Island Edition

  30-03-2015 14:55 via artnews.com
  Goldman Sachs senior partner Valentino D. Carlotti and private investor David Shuman are joining the Guggenheim Foundation’s board of trustees. [Artforum] A Fire Island fire has destroyed Holly House, an LGBTQ artist residency. [Artforum] The American Academy of Arts and … Read More
  
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• Britain’s First Cinema Is About To Reopen Its Doors As A Movie Theatre Once Again

  30-03-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “By 1896, the reputation of the institution was such that the Lumière brothers chose it as the UK venue on a world tour designed to showcase their film projector, the cinematograph.”
  
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• The Lawyer Who’s Preparing For Courts About, And Maybe In, Space

  30-03-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I began to see analogues between the founding of the United States and what we would need to do to go into space. I want to point out very, very strongly that this analogy between the founding of the US and space law is not a call for United States dominance or Manifest Destiny in […]
  
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• The Whitney’s Curators Mount A Big Show In The Museum’s New Renzo Piano Digs Downtown

  30-03-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The show they’ve created is not a comprehensive survey of American art history, but rather a thematic look at ‘overlapping narratives,’ says De Salvo, told through a selection from the 22,000 pieces in the Whitney’s wide-ranging collection.”
  
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• Model army: Ydessa Hendeles and her disturbing gang of puppets

  30-03-2015 09:00
  
  A wooden army has invaded Britain – and they’re dancing to Debussy’s tune. Adrian Searle is deeply unsettled by the visions of artist Ydessa HendelesThe audience is already seated. There are rows and rows of them, entire families and groups all staring to the front. Others have taken up position around the walls, on tables and in several vitrines. They all look absorbed, or rigid with shock after some devastating announcement. Perhaps the end of the world has been declared.Except they’re
  
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• The week in arts: Bluesfest, Art-town, Hannah Gadsby

  30-03-2015 08:53
  
  Comedian Hannah Gadsby explores modern art in Melbourne, Pasaje bring Cuban grooves to Freo and Offspring’s Debra Oswald discusses her new novelHannah Gadsby is known not just for her wit but also her keen interest in art. The comic has a degree in art history and curatorship, and her regular lectures at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria have sold out over the past six years . This time round, she turns her eye to the work of iconic artist Pablo Picasso and delivers some much needed h
  
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• Vienna museum director calls for time limit on Nazi-loot restitution claims

  30-03-2015 08:35
  But critics say the focus should be on how provenance research can be carried out efficiently and rapidly
  
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• Turkish president appeals ruling that he must pay damages to artist

  30-03-2015 08:35
  
  Recep Tayyip Erdogan described Mehmet Aksoy’s work as a “monstrosity”
  
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• Top Posts On AJBlogs For 03.29.15

  30-03-2015 07:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Menil Collection Starts Drawing Center AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-03-29 Growing the Pie Together: Fostering Giving Networks in the Arts AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2015-03-29 Weekend Extra: Thad Jones Revisited AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-03-29 “Played Twice” Played Twice AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-03-27 After nearly two years in Colorado I’m moving on AJBlog: Lies Like TruthPublished 2015-03-27
  
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• Penguin’s Little Black Books Hit A Sweet Spot

  30-03-2015 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The commercial success of the commute-length gobbets – 80 titles ranging from the Communist Manifesto to Sappho’s poems to Mozart’s letters to his father – is striking since they are all in the public domain.”
  
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