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• Getty and Armenian Church Settle Ownership Dispute Over 13th-Century Manuscript Pages

  21-09-2015 22:31 via artnews.com
  The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America have resolved a dispute over the rightful ownership of eight 13th-century manuscript pages, which were separated from the Zeyt’un Gospels and have been in the Getty’s … Read More
  
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• Open Season: Ron Nagle Stuns, Will Ryman Strikes Out, and More

  21-09-2015 22:15 via artnews.com
  Each summer seems to be shorter than the last one in the New York art world, and now we’re back. Hundreds of galleries have opened new exhibitions around town over the past three weeks. The best show of the young … Read More
  
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• ‘These Pictures Would Not Have Been Possible Ten Years Ago’: Wolfgang Tillmans on His New Show at David Zwirner

  21-09-2015 21:41 via artnews.com
  Many of Wolfgang Tillmans’s photographs begin with the German artist asking himself, “Can I do this?” Last week, at a preview of “PCR,” his new show at David Zwirner, in New York, Tillmans pointed out two new photographs of Sunset … Read More
  
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• 'Dirty Corner': Anish Kapoor's Versailles sculpture dubbed 'The Queen's Vagina' starts a cultural war after artist refuses to remove graffiti

  21-09-2015 19:04
  
  To the artist Anish Kapoor, Dirty Corner, also dubbed “The Queen’s Vagina”, is a great work of art, graffiti or no graffiti. To the right-wing Versailles councillor Fabien Bouglé, it is an “act of war”.
  
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• 'Dirty Corner': Anish Kapoor's Versailles sculpture dubbed 'The Queen's Vagina' starts a cultural war after artist refuses to remove graffiti

  21-09-2015 19:04
  
  Local councillor so offended by huge work and anti-Semitic graffiti he files lawsuits to have it removed
  
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• ‘Doug Rickard: N.A.’ at Little Big Man

  21-09-2015 18:02 via artnews.com
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• Jennifer Russell, Associate Director of Exhibitions at the Met, Will Retire in December

  21-09-2015 17:42 via artnews.com
  Thomas P. Campbell, the director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, announced that Jennifer Russell, the museum’s associate director of exhibitions, plans to retire at the end of December. Russell, who has worked in this role since … Read More
  
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• They’re Watching Us In Museums: Trevor Paglen’s Show at Metro Pictures Takes on Surveillance

  21-09-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  Last Thursday afternoon, I received an email from the artist Trevor Paglen. I’ll respect his privacy and not reveal the contents of the message, or the Gmail account he uses, but I’ll tell you about his sign-off. Instead of the … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Segregated Bathrooms Edition

  21-09-2015 14:51 via artnews.com
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• The Waiting Wall: the display board that reveals our darkest thoughts

  21-09-2015 13:56
  
  This week, a digital art project posts anonymously submitted confessions in Brighton train station. Is it cathartic release or a prime target for pranksters?The Waiting Wall pitches private thoughts into a public space. For a week from 21 September until 27 September, the main digital advertising display in Brighton train station will accommodate an art piece, broadcasting a stream of existential confessions submitted anonymously by the public alongside the usual adverts.The Waiting Wall was dev
  
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• Chris Riddell and friends launch The Big Draw 2015

  21-09-2015 11:00
  
  The world’s biggest drawing festival The Big Draw was launched this weekend at The Bodleian Library in Oxford. Chris Riddell was there with Philip Pullman to unleash it on the world – and here shares the sketches he made on the day!Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.20.15

  21-09-2015 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
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• Here Are The 2015 Emmy Winners

  21-09-2015 05:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Especially notable? “Olive Kitteredge” won a lot of awards; “Game of Thrones” broke a 15-year-old record for most wins; Viola Davis shattered a much more shameful record from the Emmys’ 67-year run.
  
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• A New Vinyl Pressing Plant Marks Another Tick In The Revitalization Of Record Albums

  21-09-2015 02:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For all the buzz about vinyl, sales are still small potatoes compared to digital downloads and CDs, making up only 3.6% of all albums sold in the US last year. But since 2009, their sales have increased by 260%.”
  
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• The Rise And Fall, And Potential Rise Again ,Of Damien Hirst

  21-09-2015 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His star fell sharply after he committed an art-world taboo by bypassing conventional sales channels—selling works slowly through galleries—and auctioned off nearly $200 million of his work directly at Sotheby’s in 2008. While the sale was successful and proved his popularity, it became his undoing.”
  
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• Denzel Washington To Bring All 10 Of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle Plays To HBO

  21-09-2015 01:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘I’ve been given the opportunity by the August Wilson estate, he did 10 plays—I’m directing, producing and acting in one, and I’m executive producing the other nine,’ said Mr. Washington. ‘I made a deal with HBO. We’re going to do one a year for the next nine years.'”
  
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• Big New Hollywood/China Deal To Produce Huge Chinese-Language Action Movies

  21-09-2015 01:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The new entity will develop, distribute and produce a slate of Chinese-language films, including global tent poles, for distribution in China and around the world. The first titles from the imprint could be released as soon as 2016.”
  
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