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• Jewish Museum’s ‘Television Project’ Series to Showcase the Largest Archive of Jewish Media Culture in the U.S.

  21-07-2015 23:43 via artnews.com
  The Jewish Museum will kick off its ongoing exhibition series, “The Television Project,” with a show featuring works from the National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting (NJAB), the country’s largest and most extensive collection of broadcast materials from 20th-century Jewish media … Read More
  
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• Skate’s: China Aims to Buoy Art Market Through Poly Auction House

  21-07-2015 22:58 via artnews.com
  Over in its Market Notes section, Skate’s has taken a look at the intriguing machinations of Poly Culture Group, the third-largest auction house in the world, which is owned by the Chinese government and which got a new executive at the … Read More
  
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• Here’s an Interview With the Person Who Takes Care of the Bees in Pierre Huyghe’s ‘Untilled’ at MoMA

  21-07-2015 22:01 via artnews.com
  Pierre Huyghe’s Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) [Reclining female nude] (2012), which was recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is now on view in its sculpture garden, is a concrete female nude with a beehive for … Read More
  
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• Louis Vuitton Ends Its 13-Year Relationship With Takashi Murakami

  21-07-2015 21:02 via artnews.com
  Louis Vuitton has announced that the company will be ending its 13-year relationship with Takashi Murakami—signifying either a final farewell to the Marc Jacobs era (1997–2013) or a fresh start for former Balenciaga creative director Nicolas Ghesquière, depending on where your … Read More
  
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• ‘Stanley Whitney: Dance the Orange’ at the Studio Museum in Harlem

  21-07-2015 20:37 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Stanley Whitney: Dance the Orange” is currently on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem. The exhibition features 29 paintings and and works on paper created between 2008 … Read More
  
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• South African painting discovered in use as a kitchen noticeboard valued at £1m

  21-07-2015 20:05
  
  Arab in Black by Irma Stern, which was donated to fund Nelson Mandela’s legal defence in the 1950s, found covered in bills and letters in a London flatAn art expert has spotted a painting valued at up to £1m, which was once sold to help fund Nelson Mandela’s legal defence, being used as a noticeboard in a London flat.The painting, Arab in Black, a 1939 work by Irma Stern – regarded as South Africa’s leading artist, whose works have recently been soaring in value – was recognised
  
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• Garrison Keillor: This Time I Mean It – I’m Retiring

  21-07-2015 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In an interview Monday with The Associated Press, Keillor said he plans to step down as host after next season, following four decades of entertaining listeners with his baritone voice and folksy comedy sketches about Lake Wobegon, his mythical Minnesota hometown “where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the […]
  
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• Summertime Koons

  21-07-2015 18:40 via artnews.com
  The summer begins with the hope and promise of any new season and then almost instantly fades into a nagging anxiety that becomes increasingly unbearable as the days go by. Every second of sunlight following the solstice is a reminder … Read More
  
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• Information Overload (Quantified And Pondered)

  21-07-2015 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “More data has been created and stored since the turn of the millennium than in the entire history of humanity. Metaphors for information overload tend to fall into two categories: those that suggest addiction or lack of self-control, such as infomania, datamania, infobesity, databesity, dataholism, infostress, dataddiction, infovorism, datadithering, data dread; and those that suggest […]
  
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• UK Culture Department Told To Prepare For 40 Percent Budget Cut

  21-07-2015 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Chancellor George Osborne announced that in order to make £20 million of government savings, unprotected departments – everything aside from health, schools, defence and foreign aid – needed to plan for two scenarios: a 25% cut or a 40% cut. Savings would have to be made over the course of the next five years.”
  
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• National Portrait Gallery Will Honor Aretha Franklin, Maya Lina, More at Inaugural American Portrait Gala

  21-07-2015 18:05 via artnews.com
  The National Portrait Gallery announced today that it will host its first-ever American Portrait Gala on Sunday, November 15, in the courtyard of its Washington, D.C., home. The event will honor five individuals with a new Portrait of a Nation Prize: baseball hall … Read More
  
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• National Portrait Gallery Will Honor Aretha Franklin, Maya Lin, More at Inaugural American Portrait Gala

  21-07-2015 18:05 via artnews.com
  The National Portrait Gallery announced today that it will host its first-ever American Portrait Gala on Sunday, November 15, in the courtyard of its Washington, D.C., home. The event will honor five individuals with a new Portrait of a Nation Prize: baseball hall … Read More
  
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• David Brooks on Dustin Yellin: ‘He’s a Product of the Highly Distracted Internet Age’

  21-07-2015 17:32 via artnews.com
  Dustin Yellin’s wacky art practice has been known to the art world for a while. So far, in 2015, he’s shredded $10,000 for a work at this year’s SPRING/BREAK, made twelve 3,000-pound works for the New York City Ballet, and held … Read More
  
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• Brooklyn, in Space and Under the Sea: Ian Gerson’s ‘Future Floor’ Inhabits Tomato House

  21-07-2015 16:47 via artnews.com
  One recent Friday in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Tomato House opened “Future Floor,” an immersive installation made specifically for the space by Far Rockaway–based artist Ian Gerson. For the piece, Gerson transformed the main room of the gallery into an underwater/space exploration … Read More
  
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• Man admits swapping classic Chinese artworks for fakes he painted himself

  21-07-2015 14:59
  
  Xiao Yuan stole 143 works from the Guanghzou Academy of Fine Arts while working as its chief librarian, making £3.5m from auction salesA former university librarian has admitted stealing 143 paintings by famous Chinese artists from a gallery he was in charge of and replacing them with fakes he painted himself.Xiao Yuan, 57, substituted valuable works including landscapes and calligraphies between 2004 and 2006, while working as the chief librarian in a gallery within the library of the Guangzho
  
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• Morning Links: Thieving Librarian Edition

  21-07-2015 14:41 via artnews.com
  At the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, in China, a librarian admitted to stealing 140 paintings and replacing them with his own fakes. [ABC News]Could the latest Christie’s results show a slow in art sales? [Wall Street Journal]Pablo Picasso’s studio … Read More
  
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• Lydia Lunch: 'If it's for the money, you're not doing art. You're doing commerce'

  21-07-2015 14:00
  
  The no wave legend has worked with Sonic Youth and Nick Cave, written books and created art. At 56, she still rages against the commercialisation of pop cultureLydia Lunch takes the stage in Berlin. Gazing behind her black bangs into the front crowd at Urban Spree’s DYS Festival, she points her red nails through the dry ice, screaming: “Narcotics and psychotropics, ecstasy slips through my hands. I’m still searching for the drug – I need a year in a sexual coma to take care of my problem
  
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• Anthony Caro: a material boy who made it big

  21-07-2015 03:15
  
  When Anthony Caro OM and CBE died in 2013 he was Britain’s most important sculptor. The Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle has drawn together more than 100 sculptures, works on paper, photographs and models, a fitting and wonderful way to celebrate and reassess his artistry and influence spread over three venues: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Hepworth Wakefield and the Leeds Art Gallery.
  
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• Kentucky Opera’s David Roth, 56, Dead In Car Accident

  21-07-2015 01:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘David gave opportunities to everyone from composers to singers. It’s such a huge loss,’ said Christy Kramer, a member of the opera’s board of directors and its recent president.”
  
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• Prom 5, review: Maverick HK Gruber shows no sign of slowing up at 72

  21-07-2015 00:53
  
  As evidenced by the world premiere of his new percussion concerto, the septuagenarian maverick HK Gruber shows no signs of slowing down, or sobering up. His first percussion concerto had been, as he himself put it, ‘percussive noise-making in all its extrovert forms’; his new one, entitled Into the open…, is ‘a symphonic piece concentrating on percussion with distinct pitches’. And with Colin Currie as soloist, that was abundantly clear from the start.
  
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• The Couple Who Invented Nordic Noir

  21-07-2015 00:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Imagine a parallel universe in which Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbø wrote gentle detective stories set in country houses and vicarages. This might well have been the world we’d be living in if, more than half a century ago, an eminent Swedish journalist called Per Wahlöö had not fallen in love with a young publisher […]
  
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