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• How Do Art Businesses Stack Up on Facebook?

  04-07-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  This week, Skate’s Art Market Research took a look at the state of competition among art businesses on Facebook, and revealed that brand recognition is not necessarily what one would expect on the social-networking service. The most-followed art companies, as the graph at right shows, run the gamut, … Read More
  
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• Vice President of Marketing and Sales Overture Center

  04-07-2015 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Overture Center for the Performing Arts (Madison WI) seeks a Vice President of Marketing & Sales to head a department responsible for the organization’s marketing and communications functions
  
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• AS Byatt: the artist who helps me write

  04-07-2015 11:00
  
  They may be ghostly, dizzying and ‘the opposite of stories’, but the novelist needs Patrick Heron’s abstract works to shape her fiction. Here she explains why she is so haunted by his work“Every great painter,” Patrick Heron wrote “has succeeded in projecting a new and wholly distinct species of pictorial space.” He was a great writer about art, vision and painting, and said he had had to give up writing criticism in case he became classified as a writer who painted as opposed to a
  
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• Greece's anti-austerity murals: street art expresses a nation's frustration

  04-07-2015 08:00
  
  Artwork criticising international response to country’s debt crisis has flourished amid economic turmoil and social hardship. Jon Henley meets the artistsAs a fraught and worn-out Greece careered this week towards a historic vote that could determine its future for generations, one image has captured the country’s dilemma.
  Websites, TV stations and newspapers around the world have shown it: daubed on a wall in Athens, the EU flag, its azure background and 12 gold stars – one of them red �
  
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• Lifeboat Station Project: Photographer Jack Lowe captures the RNLI's courage and character

  04-07-2015 01:00
  
  This is the time of year when the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's presence in British life comes into sharpest focus. The coastline is alive with holidaymakers, and the boats that stand ready are objects of admiring appreciation.
  
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• Fiona Tan, photographer: 'There is a romanticised version of the messy studio'

  04-07-2015 01:00
  
  I am in east Amsterdam visiting the photographer, video maker and feature film-maker Fiona Tan. It's another voyage of discovery as her studio is hidden behind a building in a quiet courtyard. With its diffused light and silence it feels like an oasis.
  
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