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• Director of Uzbekistan’s Savitsky Art Museum Abruptly Fired

  25-08-2015 23:44 via artnews.com
  Marinika Babanazarova, the director of the Savitsky Art Museum (also known as the Karakalpak State Art Museum) in Nukus, Uzbekistan, has been let go by the local government for unspecified reasons, the BBC has reported. Babanazarova, who has served as the museum’s head … Read More
  
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• Director of Ukraine’s Savitsky Art Museum Abruptly Fired

  25-08-2015 23:44 via artnews.com
  Marinika Babanazarova, the director of the Savitsky Art Museum (also known as the Karakalpak State Art Museum) in Nukus, Uzbekistan, has been let go by the local government for unspecified reasons, the BBC has reported. Babanazarova, who has served as the museum’s head … Read More
  
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• Jute Sack Artworks Are at the Center of Simchowitz Lawsuit Against Venice Biennale Artist

  25-08-2015 19:58 via artnews.com
  Los Angeles dealer and artist agent Stefan Simchowitz and Dublin dealer Jonathan Ellis King have filed suit against the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, alleging that he breached a contract between them by, among other things, declaring hundreds of signed works … Read More
  
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• ‘Daniel Richter: New Works’ at Bo Bjerggaard

  25-08-2015 19:30 via artnews.com
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• Julian Barnes to co-curate exhibition of painter Félix Vallotton

  25-08-2015 18:53
  The writer, whose latest work is a series of art essays, tells Edinburgh book festival audience he is helping to stage Royal Academy showJulian Barnes has been nominated for the Man Booker prize four times and won it once; he is an essayist and memoirist par excellence. Now, however, he is trying his hand at yet another discipline: art curating. He is in the early stages of co-organising an exhibition of works by the late 19th-century Swiss painter Félix Vallotton for the Royal Academy of
  
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• Birmingham Museum of Art Appoints Horace D. Ballard Curator of Education

  25-08-2015 18:33 via artnews.com
  The Birmingham Museum of Art announced today that it has hired Horace D. Ballard, Jr. to be its curator of education, a position he began on August 10. His appointment follows two other relatively recent curatorial additions at the museum: … Read More
  
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• Chocolate with your Bacon? Tate Britain offers feast for the senses

  25-08-2015 18:23
  London gallery opens ‘sensorium’ to explore whether taste, touch, smell and sound change the way people experience artVisitors to Tate Britain can have chocolate with their Bacon while the smell of Pledge furniture polish wafts around a 1940s interior by Richard Hamilton.In another room there are creaking, burbling sounds in front of a wildly colourful David Bomberg abstract while ultrasound air flutters on to your hand as you contemplate a big, black circle that John Latham painted
  
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• Tan Boon Hui Named Director of Asia Society Museum

  25-08-2015 18:14 via artnews.com
  Asia Society announced that Tan Boon Hui has been appointed as vice president of global arts and cultural programs and director of the Asia Society Museum in New York. Tan will succeed the museum’s previous director, Peggy Loar, and begin … Read More
  
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• The bullfighter activist was a woman breaking up a male fantasy | Jonathan Jones

  25-08-2015 18:05
  A female protester who jumped into a bullring to comfort a dying animal was an intruder into the masculine world of blood lust and glorified violenceShe bends down to comfort the dying bull. She holds its horns in a loving and tender farewell to a creature slaughtered for sport. As the matador in his finery looks on helplessly at his moment of triumph being spoiled, officials try to pull animal rights activist Virginia Ruiz away from the beast to whom she brings solidarity and compassion. Did th
  
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• Omaha’s Bemis Center Names Chris Cook Executive Director

  25-08-2015 18:03 via artnews.com
  The Omaha World-Heard reported that the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, in Omaha, Nebraska, has hired Chris Cook to be its new executive director, replacing Adam Price, who parted ways with the center in January.Before landing the Bemis job, Cook … Read More
  
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• Pioneer of perversity: Pierre Molinier's extreme exposures

  25-08-2015 17:37
  High-heeled, corseted, impaled, auto-fellating ... Molinier’s fantasy photographs open a window on a forbidden world – and have made him a cult figure. Do not try this at homeThe photographs reveal things as though through a keyhole, spotlit vignettes rearing up from a forbidden world. They are small, black-and-white, home-developed silver gelatin prints, and they glower round the walls, not so much inviting as inciting you to look.This small show at Richard Saltoun in London’s
  
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• Sotheby’s to Auction Bob Dylan’s Manuscript for ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’

  25-08-2015 17:14 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s announced today that it has plans to sell the original manuscript for Bob Dylan’s song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” The typed-up, hand-edited sheet of lyrics is expected to go for £150,000–200,000 (about $236,000–$315,000) when it hits the auction … Read More
  
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• Here’s a Video of a 12-Year-Old Putting His Hand Through a 350-Year-Old Painting

  25-08-2015 16:53 via artnews.com
  The Guardian has just released surveillance video of a 12-year-old Taiwanese stumbling and breaking his fall by plunging his fist through a painting boy at an art exhibition in Taipei. It’s really something. The organizers of the show, “Face of Leonardo: Images of … Read More
  
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• From Rothko to Rodin: landmark exhibitions dominate fall art offerings

  25-08-2015 16:12
  Deep dives – including shows on Frank Stella, the Dutch masters, and Chicago’s first architecture biennale – give American art lovers lots to look forward toThe world’s greatest museum is mustering all its resources – and has secured loans from more than 50 other collections – for this unprecedented exhibition of central African art. (The title’s spelling, with an initial K, serves to distinguish the pre-colonial civilization, which stretched as far as c
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Whistler’s Mother’ Edition

  25-08-2015 14:58 via artnews.com
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• Dismaland tickets: Website crashes again as Banksy denies online ticketing error is a hoax

  25-08-2015 14:34
  
  The Dismaland website for Banksy’s latest show has crashed again, fuelling speculation the online error is part of a deliberate stunt by the artist to make the ‘bemusement park’ experience even worse.
  
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• Prom 50, Royal Albert Hall, review: Andras Schiff casts a spell with Bach's Goldbergs

  25-08-2015 14:24
  
  A darkened hall, a box of hammers, and a pair of hands – this was enough to draw a capacity crowd to Sir Andras Schiff’s late-night recital of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Composed to cure a rich patron’s insomnia, this extraordinary work makes supreme demands on technique, imagination, and memory, and great pianists are drawn to it like climbers to Everest.
  
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• Oops, butter fingers! I live in ultimate fear of ruining a million-pound painting

  25-08-2015 13:59
  I feel for the Taiwanese klutz who slipped and punched a hole in a 17th-century painting. It’s only a matter of time before my own slapstick momentI am clumsy and prone to spilling drinks, tripping over and other suchlike slapstick incidents. So I have a lot of sympathy for the Taiwanese boy who tripped over in an art show and accidentally put his fist through a 17th-century canvas.Related: Boy trips in museum and punches hole through million-dollar paintingContinue reading...
  
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• Boy trips in museum and punches hole through painting

  25-08-2015 11:41
  Taiwanese 12-year-old holding a drink stumbles and tears through 17th-century oil on canvas artwork A 12-year-old Taiwanese boy lived out a slapstick nightmare at the weekend when he tripped at a museum and broke his fall with a painting, smashing a hole in it.Related: Oops, butter fingers! I live in ultimate fear of ruining a million-pound paintingRelated: US student is rescued from giant vagina sculpture in GermanyContinue reading...
  
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• £1m painting to be restored after boy punches hole through it in Taiwan – video

  25-08-2015 10:24
  Sun Chi-hsuan, the head of the Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius exhibition, and Tsai Shun-jen, the chief conservationist at the Huashan 1914 Creative Park gallery in Taipei, discuss the restoration of Flowers by Paolo Porpora. A 12-year-old boy accidentally punched a hole through the 350-year-old painting, worth £950,000 ($1.5m). He will not be held accountable for the tear, as the funds for the restoration will be covered by insuranceBoy trips in museum and punches hole through millio
  
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• Taiwanese boy takes a tumble in museum and punches a hole in a painting worth $1.5 million

  25-08-2015 09:25
  
  A 12-year-old boy has planted his fist through a painting worth $1.5m after tripping over in the middle of a museum.
  
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• We're not in Tinseltown any more: the world's alternative Hollywood signs – in pictures

  25-08-2015 08:00
  From BIKINI to BRASOV, the hills have irony. Or are these signs sweet tributes to Tinseltown? Photographer Filippo Minelli has travelled the world hunting them out for his project Not Hollywood Continue reading...
  
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• Boy trips in museum and punches hole through million-dollar painting

  25-08-2015 07:27
  Taiwanese 12-year-old holding a drink stumbles and tears through 17th-century oil on canvas by the Italian master Paolo Porpora A 12-year-old Taiwanese boy lived out a slapstick nightmare at the weekend when he tripped at a museum and broke his fall with a 350-year-old painting, smashing a hole in the work of art valued at $1.5m.
  Footage released by the organisers of the Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius exhibition in Taipei shows the boy in shorts, trainers, a blue Puma T-shirt and holding a
  
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• InsideOut: Executive Director Position

  25-08-2015 05:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a nationally recognized hub of creativity for K-12 students in Detroit who are curious about exploring their worlds through the power of poetry, is looking for an Executive Director (ED) able to implement our mission and enhance iO’s position as a vibrant literary arts organization through bold and creative ways.
  The ED will be responsible for general operational, administrative, and financial management as well as develop and manage organizational policies
  
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• Assistant/Associate Curator, South Asia -Modern & Contemporary Art

  25-08-2015 05:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Asst/Assoc Curator, South Asia. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Specialist in 20th & 21st century art of South Asia. PhD (or equiv) in history of art & 3+ yrs exp in a museum or acad inst. Deadline: 9.30.15. Cvr ltr, res & salary history to: [email protected] as Word doc w/title in subject line.
  OrganizationThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
  
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• What UK Artists Have Lost Under The Tories

  25-08-2015 04:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Artist Bob and Roberta Smith: “I want us to re-engage with that postwar consensus that we need to expand creativity and who gets involved in it. The Tories think that silly notion is history now. Politicians don’t seem to even understand the basic importance of something like design and how it underpins production. It’s crazy, and, to be honest, Labour is not much better.”
  
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• The War-Hungry Women Written Out Of Photographic History

  25-08-2015 03:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These women and their lives and times seem like ancient history in an age where anyone with a mobile phone now has their camera constantly with them. In 2014 we took one trillion photos; 30bn of which were selfies. It’s worth reminding ourselves – in the context of this monstrous exponential profusion of images that we live with – that all the great photographs these women took were shot on film (or plate), developed and printed.”
  
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• A Man Who Brought Drumming Into The World’s Spotlight

  25-08-2015 02:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  }Over the years Mr. Rose appeared onstage or on the bill with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, the Rolling Stones and Peter Gabriel, and he was among those named as ‘living human treasures’ by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. He made his American debut in 1988 with a 30-member version of his orchestra at the Beacon Theater in New York, a performance featuring exuberant dancers and vivid costuming as a complement to the orchestra’s pulsing rhyth
  
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• When Wildfire Smoke Pours Into Town, The Shakespeare Festival Has A Problem

  25-08-2015 01:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Each evening, a couple hours before shows begin, the smoke team gathers in the Festival’s outdoor theater, armed with a weather forecast and other pertinent information about the air quality. The team uses the old standard ‘Can we see the mountains across the valley?’ trick, in addition to objective data from Oregon’s color-coded smoke reports, an air quality station on top of one of the theaters, and a handheld monitor that gives real-time measures backstage.&rdqu
  
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• Workers Strike at National Museum of Scotland

  25-08-2015 00:21 via artnews.com
  Several days after staffers at London’s National Gallery launched an indefinite strike to protest a plan to privatize services there, workers at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh have mounted a strike of their own, the BBC reported today.Since December 2013 members of … Read More
  
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• Marion ‘Kippy’ Boulton Stroud, Founding Director of Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop and Museum, Dies at 76

  25-08-2015 00:00 via artnews.com
  Marion “Kippy” Boulton Stroud, the founder and artistic director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, died on August 22 at the age of 76.A curator, author, and museum director, Stroud is most widely known for opening the Fabric Workshop, … Read More
  
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