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• Phillips Adds Two Senior Executives To Contemporary, Modern Art Staff

  01-09-2015 22:31 via artnews.com
  Bloomberg reports today that Phillips auction house has hired Hugues Joffre and Jean-Paul Egelen as new senior executives, beefing up the auction house’s contemporary and modern department.According to a release today from Philips, Joffre–formally a senior international director at Christe’s–is the new … Read More
  
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• Frank Stella: 'If you get into art to make money, you're deluded'

  01-09-2015 20:49
  
  Ahead of his third New York retrospective the artist talks about painting it black, being branded a ‘maximalist’ and why making money out of art isn’t so easyIt’s 8am and Frank Stella is pacing his messy home office in Greenwich Village. The New York artist may be known for painting clean lines on canvases, but today, he describes his office as “chaos within reason”.It’s no surprise the abstract artist has a lot on his desk. His forthcoming retrospective
  
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• Denver Art Museum Announces Major Show of Female Abstract Expressionists

  01-09-2015 19:18 via artnews.com
  The Denver Art Museum (DAM) announced today that it will have a major exhibition about female Abstract Expressionists in summer 2016. Titled “Women of Abstract Expressionism,” the show will feature more than 50 works by 12 artists. Following its run … Read More
  
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• ‘Brushing Up on Stern’ at Iziko South African National Gallery

  01-09-2015 19:09 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Brushing Up on Stern” is currently on view at Iziko South African National Gallery. On display are works by Irma Stern, the late South African painter, which are part of … Read More
  
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• The art of Burning Man: skeletons, temples and flaming Tetris

  01-09-2015 18:49
  
  Besides pounding techno and swirling dust, the desert festival is home to a host of spectacular art installations. Here are some of the bestBurning Man is not the typical place people would go to view art in the “default world” (the term “Burners” have for the “muggle world” those of you who are not here in Black Rock City inhabit). It’s extremely hard to get here – far less accessible than most public municipal art – and upon arrival, it is
  
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• Christie’s Folk Art Sale Includes Hamilton Bust, Late Henry Darger Painting

  01-09-2015 18:01 via artnews.com
  Christie’s will hold its sale of Important American Furniture, Outsider and Folk Art on September 24, at Rockefeller Center in New York. Among the 117 lots are 25 selections from Credit Suisse’s Americana Collection, including a Gilbert Stuart portrait of … Read More
  
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• Andrea Rosen Gallery Now Represents the Estate of Alina Szapocznikow

  01-09-2015 17:34 via artnews.com
  New York’s Andrea Rosen Gallery announced today that it now represents the estate of Alina Szapocznikow. On October 30, the Chelsea gallery will open its first solo show of the Polish-born artist, who died in 1973 at age 47. Szapocznikow’s estate … Read More
  
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• Here’s the 2015 Pulse Miami Beach Exhibitor List

  01-09-2015 16:26 via artnews.com
  For its 11th edition, the Pulse Miami Beach fair is returning to Indian Beach Park this year with new dates and an expanded layout. Whereas the fair has begun on the first Thursday of December for the past decade, this year’s edition will begin on Tuesday, … Read More
  
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• 'She's a wild woman, she's a shaman': Nicki Minaj becomes a feminist art muse

  01-09-2015 16:18
  
  Inspired by Minaj’s ‘radical’ video Anaconda – and outraged by the slut-shaming that followed – French artist Camille Henrot is reimagining the rapper in a series of delicate line drawingsNicki Minaj called Miley Cyrus a bitch at the MTV VMAs last weekend after Cyrus had accused the rapper of being “not very polite”.Meanwhile, a French artist and rising star called Camille Henrot has just released a series of evocative drawings inspired by the rapper tha
  
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• Van Gogh Museum chief: it’s critical to diversify our income streams

  01-09-2015 15:30
  
  Axel Ruger on Van Gogh’s allure, new business opportunities and why more leading cultural figures should be on major businesses boardsHi Axel, what can you tell me about the museum?
  The Van Gogh Museum houses the largest collection of work by one of the world’s most famous artists, Vincent van Gogh. The collection encompasses 200 paintings, 500 drawings and almost his entire correspondence. The museum also collects paintings and works on paper by Van Gogh’s contemporaries, so w
  
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• Morning Links: Temple of Bel Edition

  01-09-2015 14:53 via artnews.com
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• The A to Z of Readers' Art: our new project for you

  01-09-2015 13:58
  
  An exhibition of readers’ art hits London this month – and we have an exciting new project to announce: the A to Z of Readers’ Art, a monthly challenge led by some of the art world’s most interesting artists, curators and critics. Get involved and share both your thoughts and your artworks with usWhat would you like to see in Readers’ Art? Whether you have taken part in the past or not, we want your views belowA is for Art: Jonathan Jones invites you to create your
  
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• The heat is on: your best artworks about summer – in pictures

  01-09-2015 13:57
  
  Glowing sunsets, early harvests, summer fruits and flowers – here is a selection of your best pictures that show the sunny season in full swingThe A to Z of Readers’ Art: welcome to our new projectContinue reading...
  
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• Put yourself in the picture: share your artworks about art

  01-09-2015 13:57
  
  We’re kicking off an A to Z of Readers’ Art with the assignment A for ... Art. Painters from Velázquez to Vermeer have famously created self-referential works. Now it’s your chance
  The A to Z of Readers’ Art: our new project for youThe heat is on: your best artworks about summer – in picturesOne of art’s great themes is ... art. Just as novelists have been writing about novels ever since Cervantes invented Don Quixote, artists have been depicting art it
  
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• 38-Year-Old Concert Pianist Beaten To Death; Husband Arrested

  01-09-2015 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The husband of Russian pianist Natalia Strelchenko has been arrested after the musician was found murdered at their home in Newton Heath, Manchester. John Martin, 48, is understood to be the man police arrested on 30 August on suspicion of murdering the prodigious pianist and remains in police custody for questioning. He is a double bass player who also acted as the victim’s manager.”
  
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• Bloomberg Arts Editor Manuela Hoelterhoff Retires

  01-09-2015 10:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Manuela Hoelterhoff has decided to retire after 11 years during which she has written, edited and presided over more than 20,000 stories, weekend TV shows and radio segment on the arts, architecture, books and music, science, the Nazis and Hamlette … Manuela is one of the most versatile writers we’ve ever had and we will miss her wit and sharp pen.”
  
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• ISIS Destroys Yet Another 2,000-Year-Old Temple In Syria

  01-09-2015 10:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After a day of conflicting reports about the extent of damage that Islamic State militants had inflicted on the Temple of Baal in the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, a United Nations agency said late Monday that satellite images confirmed that the structure had been largely destroyed. The primary temple building, nearly 2,000 years old, was flattened.”
  
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• Sculpture Of Chaliapin As Mephistopheles Vandalized By Russian Orthodox Radicals; Protesters Demand Restoration And Cossacks Fight Each Other

  01-09-2015 10:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hundreds of St. Petersburg residents and cultural preservationists gathered on Sunday to protest the destruction of [the] bas-relief … The sculpture is offensive to Russian Orthodox believers according to a letter sent to Russian media by a Cossack who initially took credit for the removal. Another Cossack leader denounced him as a quasi-Cossack and said he would take revenge for the sculpture’s destruction.”
  
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• Too Much History: Why Istanbul Can Hardly Dig A Subway Tunnel Anywhere

  01-09-2015 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not even an area that was underwater during antiquity is free of archaeological concerns. After all, there were shipwrecks …
  
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• International Ballet Festival Of Miami Turns 20

  01-09-2015 10:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Festival founder and director Pedro Pablo Peña emphasizes the daunting nature of his enterprise. ‘Fulfilling my dream of bringing ballet from all over the world to Miami has been a task worthy of Don Quixote,’ he says in Spanish. ‘It’s taken quite a bit of inspired madness.'”
  
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• How The Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive Handwriting

  01-09-2015 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Thicker ink, fewer smudges, and more strained hands: an Object Lesson.”
  
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• Little Girl Breaks 2,000-Year-Old Vase, And Museum Is Thrilled

  01-09-2015 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No, she didn’t pull an Ai Weiwei. “A little girl accidentally broke a 2,000-year-old glass vessel during a visit to the Israel Museum on Sunday. The museum said the object has now been repaired and is in better shape than it was before.”
  
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• A Field Guide To Dwelling On Your Failures

  01-09-2015 08:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When something doesn’t go right, the usual, understandable instinct is often to forget it, as quickly as possible. Move on, we advise each other. Don’t look back. … And yet, as tempting as it is to think of stoically soldiering on as the smart approach to dealing with failure, there’s also a solid case for wallowing in your mistakes, at least for a time.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.31.15

  01-09-2015 08:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Monday Recommendation: Logan Strosahl
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-31Links Gone Wild: September Gurl Clicks
  AJBlog: blog riley Published 2015-08-31What I Learned This Summer: Philadelphia
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-08-30
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• Chineke! Europe's first professional orchestra of black and minority ethnic musicians launches

  01-09-2015 03:15
  
  When the Chineke! Orchestra steps on to the Queen Elizabeth Hall platform on 13 September, the audience should notice something unusual. One of those uncomfortable truths about classical music is that most symphony orchestras in Europe still consist mostly of white and white-Asian people. Chineke, the brainchild of the double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku, is Europe's first professional orchestra made up entirely of black and minority ethnic musicians.
  
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• Unpacking The Call For Diverse Books

  01-09-2015 00:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sometimes it seems that what publishing is looking for, when they look to the Market to sell books by marginalized writers, is a single story. It is: this writer is *the* Dominican writer, or *the* Japanese writer, or *the* Sudanese writer that you should read right now. After all, we live in a culture that sells books with the tagline, if you read only one book this year.”
  
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