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• Brian Sewell's cutting critiques – six of the best

  19-09-2015 19:10
  
  The controversial art critic, who has died aged 84, made his name through his withering putdowns. Here, the Guardian remembers some of the most infamousOn David Hockney“Hockney is not another Turner expressing, in high seriousness, his debt to the old master; Hockney is not another Picasso teasing Velázquez and Delacroix with not quite enough wit; here Hockney is a vulgar prankster, trivialising not only a painting that he is incapable of understanding and could never execute, but i
  
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• Brian Sewell’s best cutting critiques – in quotes

  19-09-2015 19:10
  
  The controversial art critic, who has died aged 84, made his name through his withering putdowns. Here, the Guardian remembers some of the most infamousOn David Hockney“Hockney is not another Turner expressing, in high seriousness, his debt to the old master; Hockney is not another Picasso teasing Velázquez and Delacroix with not quite enough wit; here Hockney is a vulgar prankster, trivialising not only a painting that he is incapable of understanding and could never execute, but i
  
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• Brian Sewell obituary: ‘cruel, kind and always loyal’

  19-09-2015 18:49
  
  Britain’s most outspoken art critic, he went on to become an outraged commentator on politics:Brian Sewell, who has died aged 84, was for many years the best-known, most outspoken and most widely read art critic in Britain. His column in the Evening Standard was loved by London’s strap-hangers, even when they knew nothing about the artists he was laying into. In recent times, he wrote with equal fury on a vast range of other subjects, particularly the postures of political leaders, w
  
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• Brian Sewell obituary

  19-09-2015 18:49
  
  Britain’s most outspoken art critic, he went on to become an outraged commentator on politicsBrian Sewell, who has died aged 84, was for many years the best-known, most outspoken and most widely read art critic in Britain. His column in the Evening Standard was loved by London’s strap-hangers, even when they knew nothing about the artists he was laying into. In recent times, he wrote with equal fury on a vast range of other subjects, particularly the postures of political leaders, wh
  
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• Brian Sewell

  19-09-2015 18:49
  
  Britain’s most outspoken art critic, he went on to become an outraged commentator on politicsBrian Sewell, who has died aged 84, was for many years the best-known, most outspoken and most widely read art critic in Britain. His column in the Evening Standard was loved by London’s strap-hangers, even when they knew nothing about the artists he was laying into. In recent times, he wrote with equal fury on a vast range of other subjects, particularly the postures of political leaders, wh
  
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• Brian Sewell, 'most controversial' art critic, dies aged 84

  19-09-2015 18:03
  
  Eminent critic and writer, famed for his dislike of Tracey Emin and Banksy, dies after being diagnosed with cancerBrian Sewell, who was described as Britain’s most famous and controversial art critic, has died aged 84.The London Evening Standard critic died on Saturday after being diagnosed last year with cancer. Related: Brian Sewell: Tracey Emin's art is 'trivial' and Grayson Perry's is 'vulgar' Sad to hear that Brian Sewell's died. An incredible life and whenever you rang him up to ask
  
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• Auction Houses Battle for an Audience Online: A Look at the Action

  19-09-2015 15:00 via artnews.com
  This week Skate’s released its Fall 2015 Art E-Commerce and Media Report, taking a particularly close look at Kickstarter and the Dutch online auction house Catawiki, which “raised $82 million in funding in July, eclipsing any of its peers with the … Read More
  
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• Cocottes, courtesans and sex in the city: Paris celebrates art of the demi-monde

  19-09-2015 12:52
  
  A new major exhibition examines artists’ fascination with the rise of prostitution, as the population of the French capital boomed in the late 19th centuryWhen the sun went down in 19th-century Paris and lamp-lighters lit the gas lamps, it was time for “absinthe hour”. The elegant daytime flâneurs strolling Haussmann’s grand boulevards had disappeared and were replaced by the ladies of the night.From the darkest corners of the French capital, thousands of brightly d
  
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• Cocottes and courtesans: Paris celebrates artistic images of prostitution

  19-09-2015 12:52
  
  Musée d’Orsay this week opens ‘Splendours and Miseries’, the first major exhibition looking at the artistic representation of prostitution in 19th century ParisWhen the sun went down in 19th-century Paris and lamp-lighters lit the gas lamps, it was time for “absinthe hour”. The elegant daytime flâneurs strolling Haussmann’s grand boulevards had disappeared and were replaced by the ladies of the night.From the darkest corners of the French capital,
  
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• Prostitution in 19th century Paris - in pictures

  19-09-2015 12:06
  
  Musée d’Orsay in Paris this week opens ‘Splendours and ­Miseries’, the ­first major exhibition looking at the artistic ­representation of prostitution in 19th century Paris Continue reading...
  
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• The Victorian women forced to give up their babies

  19-09-2015 07:29
  
  Most unmarried mothers 150 years ago had to hand over their babies to foundling hospitals. A new exhibition looks at what became of these womenI am surrounded by a set of paintings produced 150 years ago at the height of the Victorian age, and the one thing that stands out is a sense of desperation. What is truly shocking and tragic is that they all portray ordinary young mothers caught up in a terrible and unforgiving morality that means abandoning their children is their best, and in many case
  
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• Philadelphia Theatre Company Gets Its Theatre Back After Bank Foreclosed

  19-09-2015 04:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The troupe on Thursday bought its space at Broad and Lombard Streets for $5 million from TD Bank, which had taken possession of its Suzanne Roberts Theatre after PTC stopped making mortgage payments in 2012; the bank later foreclosed.”
  
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• Post Millennial – They’re Already Racing To Define “Generation Z”

  19-09-2015 03:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With the oldest members of this cohort barely out of high school, these tweens and teens of today are primed to become the dominant youth influencers of tomorrow. Flush with billions in spending power, they promise untold riches to marketers who can find the master key to their psyche.”
  
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• Executive Director Primary Stages

  19-09-2015 03:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Primary Stages, an award-winning not-for-profit theater in New York City, is seeking an Executive Director. This is a new leadership position for the theater.
  Primary Stages is a New York City, Off-Broadway not-for-profit theater company, dedicated to inspiring, supporting, and sharing the art of contemporary playwriting. We operate on the strongly held belief that the future of American theater relies on nurturing playwrights and giving them the artistic support needed to create new work. Since
  
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• LA Grows An Emerging Arts District

  19-09-2015 00:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With its slower pace of revitalisation, downtown LA may have found a unique way to remake itself.
  
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