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• Which Art Businesses Are Leading the Race for an Audience Online?

  13-06-2015 17:00 via artnews.com
  For the latest edition of its quarterly report on e-commerce and media, Skate’s Art Market Research has taken a close look at how traditional brick-and-mortar auction houses, like Sotheby’s and Christie’s, are faring against various digital upstarts, like Artsy and Invaluable, which have various … Read More
  
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• Climate change activists occupy Tate Modern's Turbine Hall

  13-06-2015 13:43
  
  Latest protest by Liberate Tate against BP’s sponsorship of the gallery will last for 25 hours if they are able to remain in the building beyond closing timeActivists have occupied the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with the aim of giving all-night performance criticising BP’s sponsorship of the gallery.The group intend to cover the hall’s 152-metre sloping floor, which once housed the oil-fired turbines of the Bankside power station, with thousands of charcoaled words of warning about clima
  
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• Create your own outdoor cinema

  13-06-2015 12:00
  
  Who needs a drive-in when you can set up a cinema in your own back yard?
  Picture a warm evening. Drinks clink, popcorn rustles. On the screen before you and the sky beyond it the stars come out to play. For summer fun nothing beats watching a film al fresco. Outdoor screenings hosted by the Luna Cinema, Floating Cinema and Rooftop Film Club revive the romance of 50s drive-ins. I’m a huge fan and so is my girlfriend, so for a summer treat I have an idea: I will build an outdoor cinema on my roo
  
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• Barbara Hepworth finally gets her due

  13-06-2015 10:30
  
  She achieved great success in her lifetime, but Hepworth was also patronised as a female and provincial artist. As a Tate Britain retrospective opens, it is time to acknowledge her place in the first rank of sculptureThe hand lying on the table is small and delicate, its fingers strong but slim. Here, cast in eternal bronze, is the force that shaped the art in this light, airy room, the curved wood carvings, the sensuous stone. “My left hand is my thinking hand,” wrote Barbara Hepworth. “[
  
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• Robert Clayton's images of the Lion Farm Estate capture life in a corner of early-90s England

  13-06-2015 01:00
  
  The Lion Farm Estate is at Oldbury in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell and Dudley. This is the eastern fringe of the Black Country, where it seamlessly elides with Birmingham. It is a place of former mines, former forges, ruinous factories, little-used canals and big sheds. The estate was built in the first half of the 1960s when the area was pre-post-industrial.
  
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• Rhodri Marsden's Interesting Objects: Eadweard Muybridge's 'Sallie Gardner at a Gallop'

  13-06-2015 01:00
  
  * It was a question that gripped scientists and gamblers alike. When horses gallop, do all four hooves leave the ground simultaneously? One camp believed that yes, horses momentarily "fly". The other insisted that if they didn't have one leg on the ground, they'd fall over. Leland Stanford, tycoon and founder of Stanford University, turned to a British photographer for help.
  
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• The Woman Who Runs Wolf Trap Opera Company

  13-06-2015 00:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Kim Witman, 58, is celebrating her 30th year at the Wolf Trap Opera. When she started in 1985, she was a coach, new to the opera world, playing for rehearsals and earning intern-level pay. And even now that she’s leading the company — her official title is senior director of the Wolf Trap Opera and […]
  
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