Arts news

• Protesters Shut Down NY’s Guggenheim Museum Over Labor Practices

  01-05-2015 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  “At noon today, a group of artists and activists including members of the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (known as G.U.L.F.) unfurled a large parachute in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum, demanding to meet with a member of the institution’s board of trustees to discuss the labor conditions at its Abu Dhabi site.”
  
  Read more

• Why Museums Are The Place To Talk About Racism

  01-05-2015 22:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our job is to be an educational institution that uses history and culture not only to look back, not only to help us understand today, but to point us towards what we can become.”
  
  Read more

• Running Through S|2 With His Woes: On Drake’s Sotheby’s Soundtrack

  01-05-2015 22:13 via artnews.com
  Drake may know a guy at Sotheby’s, but the show “I Like It Like This,” presented by the auction house’s gallery arm, S|2, which features 56 works of art by 31 black American artists, is a success, surprisingly not in spite of … Read More
  
  Read more

• Collector’s Corner: Robert Mnuchin

  01-05-2015 22:02 via artnews.com
  Collector’s Corner is a recurring interview feature that checks in with art collectors around the world. Robert Mnuchin came to the art business long enough ago that some might not remember the octogenarian dealer’s life before. Yet in 1990, when … Read More
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• May Day Protesters Occupy the Guggenheim

  01-05-2015 21:16 via artnews.com
  Today, at around noon, a group of activists from the Gulf Labor Artist Coalition entered the Guggenheim’s atrium with a maroon fabric sign that read “Meet Workers’ Demands Now!” and proceeded to stage a protest. Their protest was in honor of … Read More
  
  Read more

• ‘Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing’ at the Studio Museum in Harlem

  01-05-2015 21:03 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Trenton Doyle Hancock: Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing” is currently on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and brings together more than 200 works … Read More
  
  Read more

• Grace Farms Announces Commissions by Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, More

  01-05-2015 20:05 via artnews.com
  Grace Farms announced today that it has commissioned works by Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Susan Phillipsz, and Teresita Fernández for its new, SANAA–designed building, which will open on October 9. Next year, Eliasson will also work with Beatriz Milhazes for … Read More
  
  Read more

• Grooveshark Music Streamer Sued Off The Internet

  01-05-2015 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Under the terms of a settlement reached with Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group, Grooveshark said it has agreed to “cease operations immediately, wipe clean all of the record companies’ copyrighted works and hand over ownership of this website, our mobile apps and intellectual property, including our patents and copyrights.”
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Chinese Builder Erects 57-storey Building In 19 Days

  01-05-2015 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mini Sky City has 19 atriums, 800 apartments and office space for 4,000 people, with space in the building going on sale in May. The structure is safe and can withstand earthquakes, according to Xiao.”
  
  Read more

• Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Gets A New Artistic Director

  01-05-2015 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dominic Dromgoole, who took over from Mark Rylance as artistic director in 2006, called it an “excellent appointment in keeping with the Globe’s traditions of boldness and adventure.”
  
  Read more

• NADA New York Announces Special Projects and Programming, From a Canine Performance to a Poker Tournament

  01-05-2015 19:00 via artnews.com
  Spring has returned to beautiful New York City, and that means that it is time for Frieze New York, NADA New York, and its surrounding fairs. Today NADA detailed some of the special projects and programming it will host alongside … Read More
  
  Read more

• Lyric Opera Of Kansas City Fires Artistic Director, Eliminates His Position

  01-05-2015 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The board chairman said in a statement, “Lyric Opera of Kansas City is reorganizing along the lines of standard industry structure for the purpose of improved effectiveness and efficiency in our operation and has eliminated the position of artistic director. Lyric Opera of Kansas City today announces the departure of Artistic Director Ward Holmquist. We […]
  
  Read more

• Pre-Raphaelite study discovered behind door in English mansion

  01-05-2015 18:27
  
  Sale of head study for Sir Frederic Leighton’s famous painting by heir Bamber Gascoigne will contribute to restoring the home of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe, where it was foundA remarkable study for Flaming June, one of the best known of all Pre-Raphaelite paintings, has been discovered hanging discreetly behind a bedroom door in an English country mansion.The discovery of the head study for Sir Frederic Leighton’s picture was announced on Friday – one of many extraordinary secrets to emerg
  
  Read more

• The Artist-Built Museum: On the Whitney’s Opening, in 1931

  01-05-2015 18:24 via artnews.com
  Today, the Whitney Museum of American Art opens its doors in the Meatpacking District with “America Is Hard to See,” an exhibition of 600 pieces from the museum’s 21,000-work permanent collection. In honor of the much-anticipated opening of the new Whitney, … Read More
  
  Read more

• New York City To Develop A Plan For Culture

  01-05-2015 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The legislation, which the City Council passed by a vote of 49 to 0 on Tuesday, requires the city to analyze its current cultural priorities, assess how service to different neighborhoods can be improved, study the condition of arts organizations and artists, and plan how the city can remain artist-friendly in a time of high […]
  
  Read more

• When A Crowdfunded Kickstarter Goes Wrong

  01-05-2015 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There’s a form of enchantment that results when a diverse community, materializing from nothing, gets behind an act of creation that no other institution would support. But in ZPM’s case, the enchantment was long ago irretrievably dispelled.”
  
  Read more

• Are We Losing The Art Of Signing Our Names?

  01-05-2015 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While 61% of responders sign paper at least once a week or more, nearly half do so in a hurry and a full 30% just scribble something fast to get it done. It seems that in our rushed, digital age, the curlicues immortalized by Queen Elizabeth I have become unthinkable.”
  
  Read more

• The Man Who Collected Every #1 Hit On The British Music Charts

  01-05-2015 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Single-minded Keith Sivyer bought every new release that entered the UK single charts since their inception in 1952 until his death in February aged 75. Every week, without fail, Keith visited his local record shop with a copy of Music Week and bought the latest songs that had entered the top 40 before going home […]
  
  Read more

• Roberta Smith: New Whitney Signals Change In NY Art Scene

  01-05-2015 16:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The new Whitney forces a decisive yet organic realignment of the balance of power among New York’s main museums that is good for all concerned. With its enlarged galleries and the reveal of its collection, the Whitney, and to some extent American art, should begin getting the full respect both deserve.”
  
  Read more

• Jane Farver, Wide-Ranging Curator Who Directed the MIT List Center, Has Died at 68

  01-05-2015 15:53 via artnews.com
  Jane Farver, a veteran curator and arts administrator, who directed the MIT List Visual Arts Center for more than a decade, organized a pioneering show about the international history of conceptual art, and had recently helped manage the Prospect exhibition … Read More
  
  Read more

• How The Frieze Fair Empire Was Born

  01-05-2015 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Between the quality of the art and the intellectual ambition of the programming and commissions, it was clear that the fair was going to cause a seismic shift across the art world.”
  
  Read more

• What Michelle Obama Said At The Opening Of The New Whitney Museum

  01-05-2015 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I guarantee you right now there are kids living less than a mile from here who would never in a million years dream that they would be welcome in this museum. And growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was one of those kids myself. I know the feeling of not belonging in […]
  
  Read more

• Morning Links: Kenya and Costa Rica Edition

  01-05-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  The country of Japan will be donating $1 million to the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Museums of Asian Art. [Artforum] Kenya and Costa Rica have pulled their national pavilions out of the … Read More
  
  Read more

• Death-row paintings and anti-gentrification postcards – the week in art

  01-05-2015 15:22
  
  Convicted smuggler Myuran Sukumaran’s artworks howl from the abyss, as postcards reveal how London life went sour. Plus election posters get a brilliant art school remix and Jackson Pollock’s secret foodie life – all in your weekly dispatchLandscape photographs by a serious and thought-provoking artist.
  • Marian Goodman Gallery, London W1F, until 6 June. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Venice Biennale 2015: Why this year could be more political than the General Election

  01-05-2015 14:10
  
  The venice biennale, which starts next week, is the world's most important visual-arts event. It is also the most illogical.
  
  Read more

• Kendall Jenner's face becomes the first ever victim of drone vandalism

  01-05-2015 13:48
  
  Kendall Jenner possesses one of the most coveted faces in the fashion industry, fronting campaigns from Givenchy to Balmain in 2015.
  
  Read more

• Public art in cities: share your photos and stories

  01-05-2015 12:50
  
  From pop-up to permanent, share your favourite (and least favourite) examples of urban public art with GuardianWitnessPublic art in cities can be divisive – some examples are adored, others are abhorred. But it’s also evolving: what once might have been a sculpture in a square can now be a pop-up intervention, an interactive performance or even a brand campaign. It can be physical, digital, mobile, static, personal, political or commercial.This week, as 20 temporary horses are installed in f
  
  Read more

• To sleep, perchance to paint … share your art inspired by dreams

  01-05-2015 12:44
  
  Reveries, nightmares and oneiric fantasies: we want them committed to paper. Here’s a chance to share your dreams through artMorrissey in stitches: your artworks inspired by musicYour chance to be exhibited in London and New YorkFrom Freud’s influence in art to Salvador Dalí’s dream-inspired paintings and innumerable depictions of the subconscious, dreams and art are deeply connected. This month, it’s time to share your artworks about dreams, or inspired by them. You can interpret
  
  Read more

• Morrissey in stitches: your artworks inspired by music – in pictures

  01-05-2015 12:44
  
  From the Smiths to Strauss, Bill Evans to Bikini Kill, your musical artworks are a riotous symphony of colourShare your artworks inspired by dreamsYour chance to be exhibited in London and New York Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• What the Brandenburg Gate's pop-up horses say about the state of Berlin's public art

  01-05-2015 12:23
  
  As part of the 70th-anniversary commemorations marking the end of the second world war in Europe, 20 monumental horses have been installed in the heart of Berlin. But why are they only here for one week?This weekend, the Mediterranean will come galloping into the heart of Berlin. As part of the commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war in Europe, 20 monumental horses – variously made of Italian marble, bronze, cast iron and granite, some of them six metres tall
  
  Read more

• Snow White Rising: Chapter 1

  01-05-2015 12:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
    Snow White rising started when I was drawing Philosophrenic for STSQ, and early Zouch. SWR was proposed back in 2012 using the character introduction pages that have been posted here over the past few months. Now it is time to start the actual comic, since there is a three year difference between conception and ... Continue ReadingThe post Snow White Rising: Chapter 1 appeared first on Zouch.
  
  Read more

• 'Holy monkeys' not meant to rile Orthodox church, says Latvian artist

  01-05-2015 11:42
  
  Sergey Dyomin’s paintings depict primates as Russian clerics but he insists he isn’t aiming to offend. RFE/RL reportSergey Dyomin’s dystopian paintings have played around with images of everything from pigs to sewing machines and railway cars, but it’s his treatment of monkeys that got him noticed.The Latvian artist won international acclaim in 2010 with his painting Boris And Gleb. Featuring two monkeys dressed up a 11th-century Orthodox saints, it reached the final in an online competi
  
  Read more

• Salman Rushdie Vs. Francine Prose – Chapter 459 Of The Charlie Hebdo Wars

  01-05-2015 10:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rushdie: “Our fellow artists were murdered for their ideas and you won’t stand up for them … I hope that our long alliance can survive this. But I fear some old friendships will break on this wheel.”
  
  Read more

• Banksy Finds New Surfaces, And A New Fan Base, Amidst Gaza’s Ruins

  01-05-2015 10:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The elusive British street artist “slipped in and out of Gaza in February, leaving his mark on three slabs of rubble left from Israel’s 50-day fight with Hamas, the Islamic group that controls Gaza.”
  
  Read more

• ‘Abortion,’ ‘Miscarriage,’ or ‘Untitled’? A Frida Kahlo Lithograph’s Complicated History

  01-05-2015 10:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The personal history behind the images may be (as so often with Frida) yet more complicated.
  
  Read more

• Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” Is Being Removed From Russian Bookstores

  01-05-2015 10:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The worry, ostensibly, is that the swastika on the book’s cover might violate the law passed last December that forbids spreading “Nazi propaganda.”
  
  Read more

• What We Need In The Arts Is More Whistleblowers

  01-05-2015 10:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sometimes, our instinct to protect each other does more harm than good. … Why don’t we call each other out more? Identify the bad apples for the greater good? Imagine: if every money-wasting incompetence or petty dishonesty was called to account, what would the savings amount to?”
  
  Read more

• This Summer’s Movies Are Playing Sex For Laughs

  01-05-2015 10:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sex has always served as ample inspiration for comedy – every awkward encounter in bed is a potential gold mine for an observant writer or actor. But this summer, more than any other in recent memory, filmmakers are focused on what’s going on in hotel rooms, taxi back seats and anywhere else two people (or […]
  
  Read more

• Actor-Playwright Gets Naked To Give France’s Culture Minister A Dressing-Down On Live TV

  01-05-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the award ceremony for the Molières, the country’s top theatre honors, Sébastien Thiéry came onstage completely nude to scold Fleur Pellerin: “Do you know, madame minister, that playwrights are the only ones in the profession not to have the right to receive unemployment benefits? Do you think that’s fair? … Why this discrimination? Is […]
  
  Read more

• Remembering The Young Oliver Sacks

  01-05-2015 09:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The world was saddened to learn of neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks’s terminal illness through a recent op-ed. With Sacks’s new autobiography out this month, Lawrence Weschler shares early stories and diary entries about Sacks, his close friend, before Sacks achieved worldwide fame.”
  
  Read more

• Athol Fugard Explores Life Of One Of South Africa’s Great Outsider Artists

  01-05-2015 09:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Five years ago, Athol Fugard, the great chronicler of South Africa’s apartheid past and its post-apartheid present, heard a surprising tale. It was about a farm laborer named Nukain Mabuza, who had spent about 15 years, in the late 1960s and ’70s, painting vivid, highly patterned designs on the boulders and stones in arid terrain […]
  
  Read more

• Dressing Up The Brain: Wearing A Suit Changes The Way You Think

  01-05-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[A team of researchers] found that wearing clothing that’s more formal than usual makes people think more broadly and holistically, rather than narrowly and about fine-grained details. In psychological parlance, wearing a suit encourages people to use abstract processing more readily than concrete processing.”
  
  Read more

• Le Corbusier – The Man, The Modernist, The Painter, The Nudist

  01-05-2015 09:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He redefined architecture for the 20th century, pioneered modernity, made radical urban utopias for the masses – and spent his last years nearly nude in a cabin inspired by human physiology.” (slide show)
  
  Read more

• Dancing With Your Ex In A Piece You Made Together (It Doesn’t Have To Be Awkward)

  01-05-2015 09:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Damien Jalet: “There was definitely a question mark when suddenly we were not a couple. Would we continue to perform this? There was a moment of transition – it was tough because, with each performance, you go back to where you were in your life when you were creating it. But for [Sidi] Larbi [Cherkaoui] […]
  
  Read more

• We Asked Two Pro Ballet Dancers The Questions You’re Too Polite To Ask

  01-05-2015 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  What kind of shape are your feet in? How do you keep them in working order? Can we see your best non-ballet dance moves? What happens when you get a rip in your tights? (video)
  
  Read more

• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.30.15

  01-05-2015 08:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bravo: Even the Whimsy At A Few Museums Is About Art AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-04-30 Too Mellifluous AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-04-30 So you want to see a show? AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-04-30
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUKnews on Twitter!