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• The shady world of art auctions: How can a Picasso truly be worth $179 million when the art market is so murky?

  11-05-2015 21:44
  
  A Picasso masterpiece has become the world’s most expensive painting ever auctioned fetching $179 million at a Christie's sale overnight.
  
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• The shady world of art auctions: How can a Picasso be truly worth $179 million when the art market is so murky?

  11-05-2015 21:44
  
  A Picasso masterpiece has become the world’s most expensive painting ever auctioned fetching $179 million at a Christie's sale overnight.
  
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• The shady world of art auctions: How can a Picasso be truly worth $140 million when the art market is so murky?

  11-05-2015 21:44
  
  A Picasso masterpiece is expected tonight to become the world’s most expensive painting ever auctioned with a guide price of $140 million.
  
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• Garage Rocked: Kate Fowle and the Making of a Moscow Contemporary Art Museum

  11-05-2015 21:40 via artnews.com
  To understand Kate Fowle’s job at Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, and how she does it, consider the case of Rashid Johnson, from whom Fowle commissioned a sculpture shortly after she became the museum’s chief curator in 2013. The … Read More
  
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• Alexander Gray Now Represents the Jack Tworkov Estate

  11-05-2015 21:24 via artnews.com
  The estate of Abstract-Expressionist Jack Tworkov is now represented by New York’s Alexander Gray Associates, its namesake dealer told ARTnews in a recent telephone interview. For its first Tworkov show, which the gallery will present in September, it is taking a … Read More
  
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• Christie's art auction of Picasso and Giacometti could set world records

  11-05-2015 19:56
  
  Picasso painting could sell for $140m, which would make it the most expensive artwork at auction, as wealthy collectors are willing to pay top dollar for fine artWith collectors’ appetite for masterpieces of impressionist, modern and contemporary art seemingly unbounded, two works are poised to challenge world auction records on Monday.Pablo Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O), a vibrant, multi-hued painting featuring a scantily attired female amid smaller nudes, could sell for more than
  
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• Simon Hantaï at Mnuchin Gallery, New York

  11-05-2015 19:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Simon Hantaï: Pliage: The First Decade” is currently on view at Mnuchin Gallery in New York until Friday, June 26. The show features a selection of … Read More
  
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• Venice Biennale: the world is more than enough

  11-05-2015 19:25
  
  Miles of string, rotating trees, entire shops … the world’s past, present and future is laid out at this year’s compendious Venice Biennale. Adrian Searle embarks on a long walk to enlightenment“Everyone is working happily, the sun is shining all the time. It’s totally awful,” says the voice. We are in Venice again, reclining on white sun-loungers in a dark space, illuminated by a grid of blue light. Up on the screen people are dancing, joking and pretending to be killed. Hito Steyer
  
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• Sotheby’s Posts $5.2 M. Profit for First Quarter, Expenses and Revenue Down Over Last Year

  11-05-2015 19:14 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s today released its financial results for the first quarter of 2015, which ended on March 31 this year. The house posted a profit of $5.2 million for that period, up from the $6.1 million loss it reported during the same period … Read More
  
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• Say Goodbye Forever To Picasso’s Women of Algiers, Heading Into Private Hands Tonight

  11-05-2015 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Under the guise of so-called ‘quality,’ auction houses fabricate a pervasive psychic field that sees art in terms of price and profit. This seductive shallow field forces collectors with similar work or similar -isms to rush the same artists and -isms to auction the following season to reap ever-higher prices.”
  
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• Rob Pruitt: This artist has painted a portrait of Barack Obama every since he took office on January 20 2009 (and he's not finished yet)

  11-05-2015 18:52
  
  On the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated, the artist Rob Pruitt produced a painting of the new president.
  
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• Rob Pruitt: This artist has painted a portrait of Barack Obama every day since he took office on January 20 2009 (and he's not finished yet)

  11-05-2015 18:52
  
  On the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated, the artist Rob Pruitt produced a painting of the new president.
  
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• Chris Burden: one of the most pertinent and poetic artists of the age

  11-05-2015 18:30
  
  The performance artist, who died this week from cancer, used his work to display physical suffering and psychological stress as if he were a scapegoat for all the ills of the worldChris Burden, sculptor and performance artist, dies aged 69
  Chris Burden’s young, innocent shell-shocked face is impossible to forget. In the old black and white images he looks like a wounded American soldier in Vietnam photographed by Don McCullin – blankly astonished by the fact he has been shot. Yet Burden was
  
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• Why The U.S. Lags Just About Everybody In Second Language Acquisition

  11-05-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It isn’t that people don’t think language education important. It’s that they don’t think it’s possible.”
  
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• Saatchi Suing Demand Media for Use of His Name

  11-05-2015 18:05 via artnews.com
  Last year, Demand Media purchased Saatchi Art, which sells artwork online. Now Skate’s Art Market Research, which is owned by the same parent company as ARTnews, has looked through Demand’s SEC report for the first quarter of the year, and reveals … Read More
  
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• Crime Dramas Clean Up At British TV Awards

  11-05-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Happy Valley on BBC One was a dark police drama set in West Yorkshire that some TV critics hailed as the best thing on British TV in 2014. Others were troubled by its scenes of violence.” (A list of all winners, including “Sherlock” and “True Detective,” is here.)
  
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• Minnesota Becomes First Major U.S. Orchestra To Play In Cuba As Relations Normalize

  11-05-2015 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is not the first time an orchestra has visited the communist nation, but it is the first in this newly friendly climate. The tour has attracted national press and international curiosity for its musical and political implications.”
  
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• Why we're still up in arms about the mystery of the Venus de Milo

  11-05-2015 17:34
  
  A new 3D reconstruction suggests that Venus was a textile-spinning prostitute. But never mind these unprovable claims, the more interesting question is why does this beautiful but broken sculpture still fascinate?There are multiple theories about the Venus de Milo, the ancient Greek statue famous for its immaculate beauty and lack of arms. Many suggestions about how those missing limbs were once positioned and what Venus was doing with them have been advanced since this elegant antiquity was dis
  
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• Of Flies and Homemade Bombs: Yoko Ono’s Art World

  11-05-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  One recent afternoon, I was sitting in a room in Yoko Ono’s apartment in the Dakota building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, waiting for her to arrive. The apartment was dark, but this room was entirely white—white carpets, … Read More
  
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• Misty Copeland Pays It Forward By Sponsoring Two Teen Brother Ballet Dancers

  11-05-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “At home, they told their parents they wanted to dance, but the idea was immediately squashed. Whitaker says that didn’t stop them from forging their mother’s signature on a permission slip, and sneaking out to attend ballet class.”
  
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• The Tate Modern Has Been Open For 15 Years. What’s Next?

  11-05-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Tate Modern really has transformed Britain. When people in Britain talk about art today, they mean art as Tate Modern has defined it.”
  
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• Royal Academy of Arts redevelopment plans revealed

  11-05-2015 16:47
  
  Project will link Burlington House and 6 Burlington Gardens buildings via a concrete bridge and corridorVisitors to a newly transformed Royal Academy of Arts will be able to walk unimpeded from Piccadilly to Mayfair and see its inner workings and treasures that might include JMW Turner’s watercolour box, an experimental Constable, or a 16th century copy of Leonardo’s last Supper.The RA on Monday revealed more details of a redevelopment which will link the two buildings it owns: the historic
  
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• The Eight Styles Of Prom Book Covers

  11-05-2015 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Visa recently estimated that the average family will spend more than $900 on prom — and a third of that is just for something called the ‘promposal.’ The ways of young people may be past all comprehension, but the ways of book marketing are not.”
  
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• Technology Kills The BBC’s Performing Arts Fund

  11-05-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Launching as the Fame Academy Bursary, it supported more than 1200 individuals in the performing arts. Beneficiaries have included global singing sensation Adele, composer Mark Simpson and the Bristol Old Vic.”
  
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• The U.S. Might Finally Be Reading For A Museum Of African American History, A Century After It Was Planned

  11-05-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In 1915, a group of black Civil War veterans began pushing for a memorial and museum dedicated to black service members. A little over a decade later, President Calvin Coolidge approved the construction of a building to serve as a ‘tribute to the Negro’s contributions to the achievements of America,’ according to the Smithsonian Institution. […]
  
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• Why Doesn’t The Cleveland Orchestra Support Modern Music Anymore?

  11-05-2015 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Almost 45 years have passed since Szell’s death in 1970, but his support of programming and commissioning new works, which continued and thrived under the directorships of both Lorin Maazel and Dohnányi, has been significantly curtailed under the orchestra’s current leadership of Franz Welser-Möst.”
  
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• Stitch in time: John Craske exhibition revives work of artist fisherman

  11-05-2015 15:06
  
  Dogged by illness but seen as a neglected genius, largest ever exhibition of self-taught Norfolk artist includes embroidery of the Dunkirk evacution
  In 1917, when the Norfolk fisherman John Craske became too ill to work, he began to paint every surface in his house with images of the sea, sky and boats he loved. When he was too weak to stand upright and paint, he continued his creations in embroideries made lying in his bed. His last work, an epic evocation of the evacuation from Dunkirk, based
  
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• Natalie Portman’s Directorial Debut Is A Movie Shot In Israel And Entirely In Hebrew

  11-05-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She’s been fearless in proclaiming her Jewishness, even though she now lives in a country where anti-Semitism is terrifyingly on the rise. I ask if Portman feels nervous about being Jewish in Paris. ‘Yes,’ she says, ‘but I’d feel nervous being a black man in this country. I’d feel nervous being a Muslim in many […]
  
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• Morning Links: Chris Burden Edition

  11-05-2015 14:28 via artnews.com
  The late Chris Burden’s final project, a 40-foot-long airship, will go on view at Los Angeles County Museum of Art this week. [The Art Newspaper] A professor in the University of California, San Diego department of visual arts is requiring his … Read More
  
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• Thanks To ‘Jane The Virgin,’ TV Is Suddenly Soooooo Interested In Latina And Latino Storylines

  11-05-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For years, executives at Spanish-language television networks complained that ad spending was not keeping pace with the fast rise of the Hispanic audience. But marketers have started opening their wallets to reach those viewers, and the broader English-language networks are eager for a cut of the cash.”
  
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• Early portrait of sculptor Barbara Hepworth donated to Wakefield gallery

  11-05-2015 13:42
  
  Painting acquired by American collector before sitter’s identity was known will go on display for first time as centrepiece of exhibitionThe identity of the meek young woman in the blue dress, with the dreamy expression and downcast eyes was forgotten for more than half a century. In the painting she looked what she was, a dutiful and conventional 17-year-old schoolgirl. But she would grow up to be one of the most famous and respected British sculptors of the 20th century, and a formidable and
  
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• Why Does The Left Wing In Britain Care Nothing For The Architectural Past?

  11-05-2015 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For many people, old toffs’ houses are the stuff of Tory ascendancy. We are supposed to prefer the architecture of 1970s housing estates or the gross ostentation of the Shard to Palladio, the Italian genius who inspired Clandon Park’s lost elegance.”
  
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• What’s Actually Happening With All Of The Sudden Departures At Shakespeare & Company?

  11-05-2015 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After decades of stability and growth, Shakespeare & Company has — in the last seven months alone — exiled an artistic director and lost an executive director before his first season was produced, actions followed in short order by the resignation of its top trustee. The word ‘interim’ now litters the company’s artistic and administrative […]
  
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• Picasso tribute to Matisse expected to become most expensive painting sold at auction

  11-05-2015 10:25
  
  A Picasso masterpiece painted in tribute to his late friend and rival Henry Matisse  - a highlight of the Picasso exhibition at Tate in 2012 — is expected to become the world’s most expensive painting sold at auction.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 05.10.15

  11-05-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  What If Britain Hadn’t Taken the “Lion Hunt Reliefs”? AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-05-10 All In Favor Of A Willis Conover Stamp, Say Aye AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-05-10 You Read It Here AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-05-10 “Don’t it always seem to go…”: SFJAZZ celebrates the life of Joni Mitchell AJBlog: Lies Like TruthPublished 2015-05-09 Doubling; A History (Of Sorts) AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-05-08 […]
  
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• Chris Burden, sculptor and performance artist, dies aged 69 at home in California

  11-05-2015 06:38
  
  ‘He was every inch an artist, as tough and uncompromising as any I have ever met,’ art dealer Larry Gagosian saysChris Burden, the American sculptor and pioneering performance artist, has died from cancer at the age of 69, his art dealer, Larry Gagosian, has confirmed.Burden died in the early hours of Sunday morning at his home in Topanga Canyon, California, the LA Times reported. His friend, the art curator Paul Schimmel, said Burden had been diagnosed with malignant melanoma 18 months ago
  
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• Chris Burden, Cornerstone of Performance Art, Has Died at 69

  11-05-2015 05:30 via artnews.com
  Chris Burden, the trailblazing artist who began his career with harrowing performances and ended it with ingenious, monumental sculptures that obsessively channel childlike enthusiasms, died of melanoma this morning at his home and studio in Topanga Canyon, California. He was 69. … Read More
  
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