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• World Monuments Fund Names Joshua David President

  02-06-2015 23:45 via artnews.com
  The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has tapped Joshua David, the co-founder and former president of New York’s Friends of the High Line, to be its new president. David will replace its current president, Bonnie Burnham, when she retires on November 2.David is … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s To Auction First Version of Manet’s ‘Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère’

  02-06-2015 21:58 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s is offering the first version of Édouard Manet’s painting series Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère (1881), estimated at £15-20 million ($23-30.7 million / €21-28 million), at their upcoming Impressionist & Modern evening sale on June 24. The painting’s sale follows … Read More
  
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• British Museum criticised for loaning artefacts to Abu Dhabi organisation accused of abusing rights of workers

  02-06-2015 21:39
  
  The British Museum has come under fire over plans to loan hundreds of culturally significant artefacts, including some of its much-prized “highlights”, to an organisation in Abu Dhabi which has been accused of abusing the rights of workers.
  
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• ‘Flannery Silva: Youth Dew’ at Springsteen Gallery

  02-06-2015 20:49 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Flannery Silva: Youth Dew” is currently on view at Springsteen Gallery in Baltimore. The exhibition is on view until June 6.
  
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• 'Two Roaming Beds' at the Hayward: Why have sleep and art become such cozy bedfellows?

  02-06-2015 20:20
  
  Not everybody loves a museum. Marcel Duchamp, that red-shirted son of a notary from Normandy, hated them. He felt that objects imprisoned inside museums became grotesque, self-important simulacra of themselves, dead and embalmed, reeking of all the sterility of systematisation. His great wish was to break down the division between the world and the artist, to let art flow into the street like a great, unbridled sewer gush – and let the museums drift away, stinking, into oblivion.
  
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• 'Two Roaming Beds' at the Hayward: Why have sleep and art become such cosy bedfellows?

  02-06-2015 20:20
  
  Not everybody loves a museum. Marcel Duchamp, that red-shirted son of a notary from Normandy, hated them. He felt that objects imprisoned inside museums became grotesque, self-important simulacra of themselves, dead and embalmed, reeking of all the sterility of systematisation. His great wish was to break down the division between the world and the artist, to let art flow into the street like a great, unbridled sewer gush – and let the museums drift away, stinking, into oblivion.
  
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• Kew Gardens to breathe new life into great pagoda dragons

  02-06-2015 19:27
  
  Mythical creatures will return when west London folly inspired by China’s Porcelain Tower undergoes biggest restoration in its 257-year history The 80 winged dragons that once perched on the great pagoda at Kew Gardens are to be reinstated in the most comprehensive restoration in its 257-year history.The structure, 50 metres tall and visible miles from the botanical gardens, is in the care of Historic Royal Palaces, whose experts have been trawling through architectural archives to find every
  
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• Sotheby’s Halts Sale of Russian Painting Believed to be Stolen

  02-06-2015 18:16 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s has suspended the sale of Evening in Cairo (1870), a painting by Russian seascape artist Ivan Aivazovsky believed by the Russian Interior Ministry to have been stolen in 1997, in their London auction this week.Only yesterday, Sotheby’s had stated … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Halts Sale of Russian Masterpiece Believed to be Stolen

  02-06-2015 18:16 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s has suspended the sale of Evening in Cairo (1870), a painting by Russian seascape artist Ivan Aivazovsky believed by the Russian Interior Ministry to have been stolen in 1997, in their London auction this week.Only yesterday, Sotheby’s had stated … Read More
  
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• From 1971: Editorial: Is Women’s Lib Medieval?

  02-06-2015 18:15 via artnews.com
  The following, published in ARTnews in January 1971, is a companion editorial to Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” It is reproduced in connection with our coverage of Women in the Art World today.The vexing question … Read More
  
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• Editorial: Is Women’s Lib Medieval?

  02-06-2015 18:15 via artnews.com
  The following is a companion editorial to Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” It is reproduced in connection with our coverage of Women in the Art World today.The vexing question “Why Have There Been No Great … Read More
  
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• From 1971: Eight Artists Reply: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

  02-06-2015 18:15 via artnews.com
  The following, published in ARTnews in January 1971, are the eight artists’ replies to Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” It is reproduced in connection with our coverage of Women in the Art World today.Contents: Dialouge, … Read More
  
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• Eight Artists Reply: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

  02-06-2015 18:15 via artnews.com
  The following are the eight artists’ replies to Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” It is reproduced in connection with our coverage of Women in the Art World today.Contents: Dialouge, by Elaine de Kooning with Rosalyn … Read More
  
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• Sexual Art-Politics

  02-06-2015 18:15 via artnews.com
  Women are protesting the institutional and social barriers which handicap their careers, but in the arts, commerce seems to have played a more destructive role than prejudice
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• From 1971: Sexual Art-Politics

  02-06-2015 18:15 via artnews.com
  Women are protesting the institutional and social barriers which handicap their careers, but in the arts, commerce seems to have played a more destructive role than prejudice
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• Andrew Edlin Gallery Will Move to the Lower East Side

  02-06-2015 17:28 via artnews.com
  Andrew Edlin Gallery will move to a new ground floor location at 212 Bowery this fall. The gallery, currently located on Tenth Avenue between 18th and 19th Streets, has operated out of Chelsea for the last 13 years.Along with his … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Brings On Former MSG Employee as Digital and Marketing Chief

  02-06-2015 15:45 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s has hired David Goodman as its new digital and marketing chief. Goodman joins the auction house from the Madison Square Garden Company, where he was the president of productions and live entertainment. Sotheby’s new chief executive, Tad Smith, who … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Sound Sanctuary Edition

  02-06-2015 15:33 via artnews.com
  A recently discovered 500-year-old engraving may show Leonardo da Vinci playing a lira da braccio. If authenticated, the piece would mark only the third contemporary depiction of Leonardo to date. [Livescience]Monica Ponce de Leon will be the new dean of Princeton … Read More
  
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• Art Basel Will Cluster ‘Premier Historical Material’ at This Year’s Fair

  02-06-2015 15:10 via artnews.com
  The grand Basel, Switzerland edition of the Art Basel fairs opens in just two weeks, and today its organizers announced that it has reconfigured its layout so that dozens of galleries showing work that dates from 1900 to 1970 will … Read More
  
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• Dual Serpentine exhibitions celebrate explorers of the human form

  02-06-2015 09:00
  
  Astonishingly lifelike sculptures of ordinary people by American Duane Hanson and the beautiful black figures painted by UK-based Lynette Yiadom-Boakye given summer showsRelated: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: artist in search of the mystery figureContinue reading...
  
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• Untitled(I remember my death.)

  02-06-2015 01:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The red bearded man with blue eyes looks thinner. He wants to be terrorized. He uses a pencil and a thread and needle and ink for his home made tattoos. He reads Viking poems Gary Snider and the Mercury for equanimity. On his left thigh he has a tattoo of a skull. They assimilate torture ... Continue ReadingThe post Untitled(I remember my death.) appeared first on Zouch.
  
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