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• Is One Of Egypt’s Most Celebrated Paintings A 19th-Century Italian Fake?

  12-04-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The plaster artifact shows three couples of geese amongst tufts of grass, and was supposedly found by Italian Egyptologist Luigi Vassalli, then a curator of the Museum Bulaq, in the Atet chapel at the Nefermaat funerary complex at Meidum. Tiradritti thinks it is highly likely that Vassalli is the real artist behind the geese.”
  
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• Pictures From São Paulo: Marina Abramovic, Sean Scully, Tonico Lemos Auad, Rodrigo Matheus, and More

  12-04-2015 21:00 via artnews.com
  A look at 9 shows in 29 photos Read More
  
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• Why Is So Much Entertainment About The Selling Of Dead Girls And Women?

  12-04-2015 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A single show with a woman who is the victim of violence for ‘entertainment’ isn’t the problem. However, with show after show employing victimization of women as a plot device it just doesn’t reflect the wide range of actual women’s experience. Instead, it reinforces the narrative of woman as victim in real life. It reinforces […]
  
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• The Man Who Formalized Jazz Dance As He Recovered From Paralysis

  12-04-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Starting in the late 1940s, he conceived an approach to the genre that is known for its elegance, liquidity and keen musicality. It emphasizes strength, balance, alignment, bodily freedom and above all the imperative of his oft-repeated mantra, ‘Never stop moving.’ It was an imperative born of grueling necessity.”
  
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• Garry Trudeau Explains Why Satire – And Charlie Hebdo – Shouldn’t ‘Punch Downward’

  12-04-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Satire punches up, against authority of all kinds, the little guy against the powerful. Great French satirists like Molière and Daumier always punched up. … Ridiculing the non-privileged is almost never funny — it’s just mean. By punching downward, by attacking a powerless, disenfranchised minority with crude, vulgar drawings closer to graffiti than cartoons, Charlie […]
  
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• CD Review: Chuck Prophet – Night Surfer (Yep Roc)

  12-04-2015 18:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
    There’s a neat symmetry, career-wise, in Chuck Prophet’s latest release Night Surfer (YepRoc).   By my count, it’s his twelfth album in a solo ride now in its twenty-fourth year. A quarter century in, and Prophet may have just cut the greatest album of his career. Twenty-four years on from his first release, Dylan was ... Continue ReadingThe post CD Review:Chuck Prophet – Night Surfer (Yep Roc) appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• The Simpsons turn black for artist's hard-hitting response to Walter Scott police shooting

  12-04-2015 13:56
  
  Italian satirical artist aleXsandro Palombo has shared a series of hard-hitting artworks in response to the fatal shooting of black man Walter Scott by a white police officer in South Carolina.
  
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• ‘Art gets things out in the open’ – young British Muslim artists tell their stories

  12-04-2015 10:30
  
  What does the work of young Muslim artists tell us about cultural tensions in the UK over the past 15 years? As a new generation of poets, playwrights and painters emerges, we meet four who are changing the narrative…The stories that follow are based on interviews with four successful young British artists – working as actors, poets, playwrights, painters – who grew up in Muslim communities. Three of the artists I spoke to were born in this country; the fourth, Yusra Warsama, arrived as a
  
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• YZ Kami: Paintings review – making visible the invisible

  12-04-2015 08:00
  
  Gagosian Gallery, London
  The Iranian artist strives to depict the inner lives of his subjects in portraits that are as modest as they are monumentalThe portrait shows the head of a young man with dark hair, pronounced eyebrows and olive-toned skin. The neck of his T-shirt is partially visible. There is a certain fullness about the mouth and a crew-cut neatness to his hair, but beyond these scant facts almost nothing more of him is explicitly described, even though the image amounts to an enormou
  
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• Hans Ulrich Obrist interview: The globe-trotting curator on skipping sleep, the ritual of running and why the internet is good for art

  12-04-2015 01:00
  
  Let the Train take the strain I spent many years travelling 50 weeks of the year for work. My mode of transport was the night train, which is a very European thing to do, the mainland of Europe being so well connected by rail. You arrive at the next city refreshed, so travel doesn't have to be an awful thing; it can be wonderful.
  
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• Charles Pétillon transforms everyday scenes using balloons in art-installation series Invasions

  12-04-2015 01:00
  
  Invading golf courses, spilling out of houses, overflowing from rusty cars, the white balloons in Charles Pétillon's art-installation series "Invasions" become ghostly occupants of the diverse spaces they appear in.
  
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