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• ARTnews and Art in America Merge to Form World’s Largest Art-Media Company

  29-07-2015 23:28 via artnews.com
  Founded in 1902—as Hyde’s Weekly Art News—ARTnews today entered a new phase, in a merger with Brant Publications, the publisher of Art in America. Since I joined ARTnews a year ago, shortly after it was acquired by new owners from … Read More
  
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• Two Banksy Murals Head to Auction with Combined Estimate of $1 M.

  29-07-2015 21:06 via artnews.com
  Two Murals believed to be the work of street artist Banksy will be removed and auctioned in September with an estimated combined value of one million dollars, according to the BBC.“I Remember When All This Was Trees” was painted on the wall … Read More
  
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• Cecily Brown Identifies A ‘Less Celebrated’ Copycat

  29-07-2015 21:01 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, Artinfo reported that yet another copycat scandal had broken out in the comments section of the Instagram account belonging to neo-Expressionist painter Cecily Brown, and for once, Richard Prince is not involved. Artinfo writes, “A few weeks ago, [Brown] … Read More
  
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• The Factory project: New £110m arts venue named after Tony Wilson's Factory Records to open in Manchester

  29-07-2015 19:12
  
  Manchester’s music scene has always rolled with a self-confident swagger. So it’s no surprise that approval for a new £110m arts venue in the city was accompanied by boasts that its arrival would make Manchester the “cultural capital of the world.”
  
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• ‘Something Else Entirely’ at Black Mountain College Museum

  29-07-2015 18:43 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Something Else Entirely: Ray Johnson, Dick Higgins and the making of THE PAPER SNAKE” is currently on view at Black Mountain College Museum in Asheville, North Carolina until … Read More
  
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• Banksy West Bank mural 'Donkey Documents' expected to sell for $700k at auction

  29-07-2015 18:25
  
  A political Banksy mural painted during the artist’s time in Israel in 2007 is expected to sell for $600,000 (£380,000) at auction.
  
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• Convicted Art Criminal Claims He Was Sold Fake de Kooning Paintings, Picasso Etchings

  29-07-2015 18:24 via artnews.com
  After being convicted on counts of wire fraud, mail fraud, false declarations in court, escape, and contempt earlier this year in an art-fraud court case, Californian real estate developer Luke Brugnara is claiming that he was sold fakes, Courthouse News … Read More
  
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• High Museum of Art Appoints Randall Suffolk Nancy and Holcombe T. Green Jr. Director

  29-07-2015 17:58 via artnews.com
  The High Museum of Art has announced that Randall Suffolk will succeed Michael E. Shapiro as Nancy and Holcombe T. Green Jr. Director, effective November 2 this year. Shapiro had served as the institution’s director for 15 years.Suffolk, who currently … Read More
  
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• Alternative Man Booker Longlist 2015: Shock as Jonathan Franzen, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro fail to win official nominations

  29-07-2015 17:45
  
  This year’s Man Booker dozen might be dominated by Americans but the biggest names in US literature are notable for their absence.
  
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• Alex Farquharson to become the new head of Tate Britain

  29-07-2015 17:02
  
  Nottingham Contemporary director Alex Farquharson, dubbed one of the “great curatorial talents of his generation,” is to become the new head of Tate Britain.
  
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• Chelsea Gallery Wallspace Will Close

  29-07-2015 16:57 via artnews.com
  New York gallery Wallspace will close on August 7, after its current exhibition of work by Deborah Remington comes down, the gallery’s co-founders, Janine Foeller and Jane Hait, said in an email Wednesday morning. In their statement, Foeller and Hait … Read More
  
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• Alex Farquharson Named Director of Tate Britain

  29-07-2015 16:46 via artnews.com
  The Tate Britain announced today that, starting in the late fall of this year, Alex Farquharson will be the museum’s new director. Farquharson is currently the executive director of the contemporary arts center Nottingham Contemporary, which he also founded.Since Nottingham … Read More
  
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• Consumer Reports: Gina Beavers

  29-07-2015 16:30 via artnews.com
  Gina Beavers is a New York-based artist trading in what some have called sculptural relief paintings. They are often made with chunky acrylic on canvas, and often of food items sourced from Instagram. Beavers has had solo shows at Clifton Benevento Gallery, … Read More
  
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• Bloodstock highlights: Tolkien triptychs, apocalyptic album art and skull guitars – in pictures

  29-07-2015 15:34
  
  Every year, the independent festival Bloodstock hosts the Rock and Metal gallery, a collection of twisted, arcane fantasy artwork professionally mounted in a marquee. Here, co-founder Paul Raymond Gregory – himself the creator of numerous metal sleeves – talks us through some of the pieces in 2015’s display Continue reading...
  
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• Gavlak Gallery Adds Four New Artists To Its L.A. Roster

  29-07-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Gavlak Gallery’s L.A. outpost has added Amy Bessone, Francesca Gabbiani, Dean Sameshima, and Marnie Weber to its fast-growing roster of artists that includes Marilyn Minter, Wade Guyton, Betty Tompkins, and Jack Pierson. Owner Sarah Gavlak has known the four new … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Outkast Stone Carvings Edition

  29-07-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  Wallspace Gallery is closing. [Artforum]The staff of London’s National Gallery have announced an all-out strike beginning August 17, following weeks of walkouts. [Reuters]New York City has promised $10 million to Spaceworks, a nonprofit which works to convert old public buildings into … Read More
  
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• Marc Quinn, artist: 'When I don't enjoy coming to the studio anymore, I won't come in'

  29-07-2015 15:00
  
  That you are in a successful artist's studio is in no doubt when you enter Marc Quinn's building in Clerkenwell, London. From the industrious quiet bodies behind on massive computers to the scattered artworks, this studio screams professionalism.
  
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• The art of changing the world - in pictures

  29-07-2015 14:26
  
  These artists hope to challenge people and businesses to think about their relationship to the natural worldThe Human Nature art show runs until 30 July in Bristol and will be in London between 17 and 27 September Continue reading...
  
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• Tate Britain appoints Alex Farquharson as director

  29-07-2015 13:37
  
  Nottingham Contemporary chief replaces Penelope Curtis, whose five-year tenure generated praise and sometimes opprobriumTate Britain has appointed Alex Farquharson as its new director to replace the Lisbon-bound Penelope Curtis.Farquharson is the founding director of Nottingham Contemporary, one of a number of UK regional contemporary art galleries to have been created in the last 10 years. Continue reading...
  
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• Controversial Japanese artist defiant over calls to take down artwork mocking Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

  29-07-2015 10:52
  
  A famous Japanese contemporary artist is embroiled in an angry fight with a major museum after it allegedly asked him to take down works critical of the conservative government.
  
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• A many-Splendoured thing: how art at music festivals makes people think

  29-07-2015 10:12
  
  Splendour in the Grass festival’s challenging artworks including a full-sized Amish community, an archaelogical dig and Nicholas Cage ... in a cageThis year’s Splendour in the Grass festival had its fair share of oddities: a man dressed as a giant disco ball, 3D mini-selfie figurines and a bunny in a cat carrier. Yet even the most blasé festivalgoer raised an eyebrow at what appeared to be an on-site Amish community. Some of the softly spoken besuited men and women in bonnets and full
  
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• National Gallery In London Faces All-Out Strike

  29-07-2015 09:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The museum] has already been disrupted by more than 50 days of walkouts by staff since plans to [privatise] visitor services and security were first revealed. The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said it had served notice of four more separate days of industrial action, with a continuous, all-out strike starting on Aug. 17.”
  
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• Peter Brook Returns To Mahabharata For New Theatre Piece

  29-07-2015 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The director and his colleagues who wrote and staged the nine-hour production that toured the world in the 1980s have returned to the ancient Indian epic for a work titled Battlefield. The four-actor staging opens in September at Brook’s longtime venue, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, and will tour to London, three […]
  
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• Actress Natasha Parry, 84, Wife And Collaborator Of Peter Brook

  29-07-2015 09:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Her career was inescapably defined by her marriage, at the age of 20, to the director Peter Brook, with whom she worked many times in productions of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Anouilh and Beckett. She was also a vital part of Brook’s experimental, theatrical work in Paris, Persia (as Iran then was) and the villages of Africa. […]
  
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• The Tragedy Of iTunes And Classical Music

  29-07-2015 09:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When the developer Erik Kemp designed the first metadata system for MP3s in 1996, he provided only three options for attaching text to the music. Every audio file could be labeled with only an artist, song name, and album title. Kemp’s system has since been augmented and improved upon, but never replaced.” Robinson Meyer explains […]
  
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• Here Are Five Classical Music Gems From The AP’s Massive New YouTube Archive

  29-07-2015 09:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From the Philadelphia Orchestra arriving for its first tour of Britain to the inimitable Thomas Beecham introducing a concert to Maria Callas’s notorious walkout from the Rome Opera’s Norma. (video)
  
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• Now Watson Will Do More Than Humiliate You At ‘Jeopardy!’ – It Will Analyze Your Writing Style

  29-07-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IBM is now licensing a tool of its supercomputer “cognitive system” called Tone Analyzer, which “us[es] linguistic analysis to detect emotional tones, social propensities, and writing styles” and then provides “suggestions to help the writer improve their intended language tones.”
  
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• How Al Hirschfeld Captured That Certain Something About His Subjects

  29-07-2015 08:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hirschfeld archivist David Leopold: “He always felt that we all have this ability to recognize a friend from the back, a block away, wearing an overcoat. He didn’t know how we do that. But he was always going for that telling gesture, that arch of the eyebrow.”
  
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• ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Ten Years On: An Oral History

  29-07-2015 08:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ang Lee, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid, Annie Proulx, Diana Ossana, and Larry McMurtry share their memories – and tributes to the late Heath Ledger.
  
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• Reviving The Play That Reclaimed The Pink Triangle For The LGBT Movement

  29-07-2015 08:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, all you millennials – back before you were born, the few people who remembered that the Nazis had used pink triangles to mark out homosexuals in the prison camps tended to view the symbol as a badge of shame. Then Martin Sherman’s Bent opened on Broadway …
  
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• Bayreuth’s New Wagner Museum Finally Faces Composer’s Anti-Semitism Openly

  29-07-2015 07:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Revamped and doubled in size at a cost of 20 million euros ($21.92 million), the museum for the first time displays Wagner’s anti-Semitic screeds, which he published in his youth anonymously, then under his own name before he died in 1883. It also depicts the close ties his widow Cosima, who died in 1930, and […]
  
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• Russia’s Bookstores Cordially Invited To Join Vladimir Putin’s Book Club

  29-07-2015 07:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The government plans to begin offering rent and tax breaks to booksellers in exchange for an ‘opportunity’ to provide a selection of titles chosen by the government. Dmitry Livanov, Russia’s Minister of Science and Education said this this new program [will] ‘help promote sales of those books which have historical value’ and ‘can contribute to […]
  
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• We All Understand Fear And Anxiety Wrong, Says Neuroscientist Who First Mapped The Brain’s ‘Fear Circuit’

  29-07-2015 07:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These days, most people think that the fear circuit gives rise directly to the emotions of fear and anxiety. [Joseph] LeDoux is convinced it doesn’t – and that this distinction matters a great deal.”
  
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• First-Ever Nude Public Performance Art Festival Is Coming (In Switzerland, No Less)

  29-07-2015 07:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Founder Thomas Zollinger: “The Body and Freedom Festival … aims to explore the possibilities of the naked body in urban space and everyday situational life, thereby contributing to its establishment in this context as an instrument of art expression.”
  
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• Robert MacPherson: The Painter’s Reach review – the writing's on the gallery wall

  29-07-2015 06:25
  
  Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
  This major career survey showcases the diverse work of a self-taught artist who is more interested in exploring ideas and connections than explaining themThe streets around where I live on the Central Coast of New South Wales are full of examples of one of Australia’s greatest folk art traditions: hand-made signs. They are placed on fences and trees to attract the attention of passing motorists. One old favourite is LEARN ROCK AND ROLL – the words stacked up,
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.28.15

  29-07-2015 06:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Et Tu, Arnold? Lehman, Brooklyn Museum’s Director, Joins Museum-to-Market Defectors AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-07-28 Name that Pianist AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-07-28 Homes away from home AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-07-28 [ssba_hide]
  
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• Eduardo Paolozzi's mosaic arches at Tottenham Court Road Tube station to be saved and displayed in Edinburgh

  29-07-2015 05:15
  
  The much-loved mosaic arches at Tottenham Court Road Tube station, which are threatened by its redevelopment, have been saved and will be put on display in Edinburgh, the home city of their artist, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.
  
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• The “Ballet Body”? I’m Sooo Over It

  29-07-2015 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I studied classical ballet for sixteen years. I was never a prodigy, but I was good enough to seriously consider it a career option. I genuinely love ballet in all its forms. And I despise the “ballet body” fitness trend.”
  
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• Artadia Taps Franklin Sirmans, Nick Cave, More for Its Board

  29-07-2015 00:30 via artnews.com
  Artadia, a nonprofit that provides grants to artists around the United States, announced today that four people have joined its board of directors: artist Nick Cave, collector and real-estate professional Robert Brawner, lawyer Aurele Danoff Pelaia, and LACMA curator Franklin … Read More
  
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• Artadia Taps Franklin Sirmans, Nice Cave, More for Its Board

  29-07-2015 00:30 via artnews.com
  Artadia, a nonprofit that provides grants to artists around the United States, announced today that four people have joined its board of directors: artist Nick Cave, collector and real-estate professional Robert Brawner, lawyer Aurele Danoff Pelaia, and LACMA curator Franklin … Read More
  
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