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• The Bodleian treasures online – in pictures

  08-08-2015 17:00
  Oxford’s Bodleian Museum has digitised its archive of rarely-seen book illustrations. Here we show highlights of the collection, chosen by Jonathan JonesRead Jonathan Jones on illumination for all here Continue reading...
  
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• A Look Inside the Art-Loan Industry

  08-08-2015 16:00 via artnews.com
  This week Skate’s took a look at the market for loans backed by art, and estimated that there are around $3 billion of such arrangements on the books. The above graph takes a look at terms that are offered by various lenders in the niche industry, with … Read More
  
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• Glenda Nicholls wins 2015 Deadly art award for A Woman’s Rite of Passage

  08-08-2015 12:03
  Overall winner at 2015 Victorian Indigenous art awards is sculptural work representing the role of Indigenous women in Welcome to Country ceremonies• Jukuja Dolly Snell awarded national Indigenous art prizeVictorian artist Glenda Nicholls has been named the winner of the 2015 Deadly Art award in the state’s Indigenous art awards.Nicholls received the award for her woven sculptural work A Woman’s Rite of Passage, featuring three life-sized woven cloaks created to represent Indigenous women
  
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• Van Gogh + Munch at the Munch Museet, Oslo: shared methods and attitudes

  08-08-2015 10:59
  Even though they never met, exhibition focuses on the relationship between the two iconoclasts of modern paintingOne died in 1890, young and little known, whereas the other lived long and achieved fame, only passing away in 1944. So we don’t tend to think of them as contemporaries. Yet Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch were born only a decade a part, the former in 1853 in the Netherlands, the latter 10 years later in Norway. In the 1880s they were among the many painters seeking a break from t
  
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• Artists: there's life beyond London!

  08-08-2015 09:30
  The capital is a great place for creatives who can afford it, but for those who can’t, the rest of the country is full of low-cost places where artists are flourishing
  Let me start by saying what this article isn’t. It isn’t a celebration of east London’s blink-and-you’ve-missed-it gentrification. Shoreditch, Dalston, Hackney and, more recently, Peckham and Walthamstow have seen communities eroded by Shard-high rents and property prices.Neither is this some dig at London as a home for
  
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• Eminent Scholar Chair in the Arts

  08-08-2015 04:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Position Opening at LSUA! Especially interested in candidates with extensive experience in areas of play writing; directing; set, lighting, and/or sound design; choreography and/or performing
  
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• Photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero's revealing project looks at passers-by, looking at her

  08-08-2015 01:10
  
  Long before she caught them on camera, Haley Morris-Cafiero noticed them: the stares, the glances. Then, while working on a self-portrait series in Times Square in 2010, the photographer captured it by accident. A man looking at her seemingly in disgust (see gallery below).
  
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