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• The British Art show: Testing the limits of exhibition boundaries

  09-10-2015 23:33
  
  BAS8 is an unstable entity, featuring mutable elements
  
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• Shepard Fairey vandalism case 'disappoints' Detroit arts community

  09-10-2015 23:15
  
  As the city sets street artist’s trial date and increasingly targets ‘quality of life crimes’, artists encourage dialogue between Detroit and public art initiatives Detroit artists on Friday said the prosecution of Shepard Fairey was “disappointing” for the city, as a court set a date for the trial of the world-renowned street artist on charges regarding the alleged vandalization of several buildings. Fairey was in court for a brief scheduling conference, in a case
  
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• New York Arts Groups Come Asking: Spare A Few Billion?

  09-10-2015 22:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s the kind of boom that can be stirring for art fans but that raises questions about how all this money can be raised simultaneously, particularly when foreign markets have created some financial uncertainty. It’s also not clear the city will continue to be as generous toward cultural capital projects as it was under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.”
  
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• ‘Is this for adults?’: Matthew Weinstein on Barnaby Furnas and Mike Kelley

  09-10-2015 22:03 via artnews.com
  Virginia Woolf called George Eliot’s Middlemarch, “one of the few English novels written for grown-­up people.” Sometimes I apply this to paintings. I look at a painting show and ask myself, “Is this for adults?”Painting is a friendly medium. Most … Read More
  
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• What Does It Really Mean To Be Politically Diverse In Theatre?

  09-10-2015 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The divide between liberals and conservatives is not in what we value, but how those values are expressed. So why are there no (or practically no) conservative voices in theater when they are so prominent elsewhere in society? When we say we want diversity in theater, do we really mean it?
  
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• Why Is Washington’s National Symphony Such An Underachiever?

  09-10-2015 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When you go to an NSO concert, you never know what you’re going to get. Sometimes, you get very good playing. Other times, you hear unpardonable sloppiness, sections drowning each other out in a soup of sound that you don’t expect from professionals. It’s curious that an orchestra with so much talent is still able and, in some sense even willing, to sound like such a mess. There are three places to look for the problem — and its solution.”
  
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• ‘Thinking from the Present Allowed Us to Get to the Past’: Peter Eleey Talks the New Embrace of Old Work in ‘Greater New York’

  09-10-2015 21:32 via artnews.com
  “How does an artist live in New York City in 2015?” asked MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach, clad in a velour jacket in the foyer of that museum, addressing a few dozen art reporters. Perhaps this was a rhetorical question … Read More
  
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• Artnews S.A. and BMP Media Holdings Merger Finalized

  09-10-2015 21:18 via artnews.com
  Yesterday BMP Media Holdings and Artnews S.A. finalized their merger, which had first been announced in July. The new announcement offers additional details about the merger. Details about the merger can be found in the press release here.
  
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• Why The London Symphony Won’t Miss Gergiev

  09-10-2015 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Tributes to what he has achieved during his eight years at the helm have been conspicuous by their absence so far, and it seems unlikely that there will be the kind of fond farewell that many conductors receive when their tenures with an orchestra come to an end.”
  
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• As Virtual Reality Becomes A Thing, What Are The Art Possibilities?

  09-10-2015 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So Oculus Rift offers incredible possibilities for science fiction and horror cinema, not to mention brainless action films. Wait until James Cameron gets his hands on this shit. But what about artists?
  
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• Musée d’Orsay becomes world's first gallery to stage prostitution exhibition - but French art critics aren't happy

  09-10-2015 20:59
  
  Splendour and Misery. Images of Prostitution 1850-1910 is a tour de force that has assembled scores of wonderful paintings by Manet, Degas, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Derain, Picasso and many of their lesser-known contemporaries
  
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• Tate Britain’s loss of Penelope Curtis is Portugal’s gain | Letters

  09-10-2015 20:11
  
  As Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World draws to a close at Tate Britain, we would like to thank Penelope Curtis, the former director of the gallery and the show’s co-curator, who has moved on to the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon. During her five years as director she made Tate Britain a stimulating, beautiful and surprising place to visit. She oversaw the splendid £45m redevelopment of the Millbank site and created an inspired chronological rehang of the permane
  
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• Svetlana Alexievich – A Difficult Translation

  09-10-2015 20:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Listening to the people who lived through some of the greatest political tragedies of the 20th century, she seeks to “chase the catastrophe into the framework of the everyday and try to tell a story”.
  
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• Oscar Murillo In The Evening Standard: ‘[Paintings] Are The Engine And They Drive The Whole Machine’

  09-10-2015 20:00 via artnews.com
  Today, the Evening Standard posted a profile of Oscar Murillo centered around his upcoming show at David Zwirner in London, which opens tomorrow.The piece covers Murillo’s upbringing in Colombia and immigration to the Hackney neighborhood of London, where he blossomed … Read More
  
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• Big Plans For Boston’s Opulent Colonial Theatre

  09-10-2015 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The theater’s opulent, barrel-vaulted lobby — modeled on the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles — could be given over to booth-style seating, and the sumptuous ladies lounge, where Bob Fosse once tap-danced upon the room’s onyx table beneath its murals of cherubs, would become an auxiliary dining room, according to the architectural plans, dated Sept. 18.”
  
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• ‘Sarah Cain: The Imaginary Architecture of Love’ at CAM Raleigh

  09-10-2015 19:06 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• What (If Anything) Should Composers Make Of Today’s Music Criticism?

  09-10-2015 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The unprecedented accessibility and apparent indelibility of reviews on the internet necessitate, I believe, a change in the way they are written and read. Foremost in my mind here are not the tender sensibilities of composers or even the damage a gratuitously negative review can do to a career, but rather the integrity and relevance of music criticism itself.”
  
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• Grumpy Old Men: Tom Wolfe and Tom Sachs Duke It Out Over Contemporary Art

  09-10-2015 18:50 via artnews.com
  On a recent Monday evening, Tom Sachs, the artist, and Tom Wolfe, the writer, were sitting in a coldly nondescript TriBeCa apartment, discussing the state of contemporary art. The event was called Tom vs. Tom.“I detect two new art forms … Read More
  
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• 'Renoir sucks' takes the world by storm – the week in art

  09-10-2015 18:43
  
  Renoir’s reputation takes a bashing, plus autumn’s best exhibitions open as the art world hits London for Frieze week – in your weekly dispatchGoya: The Portraits
  The psychological penetration of Goya’s portraits is as unsettling as the acid colours of the flamboyant dresses and silk pantaloons of his 18th-century sitters are beguiling. At times, it seems the stylish Georgian portraitist Thomas Gainsborough has got together with the self-taught painter Henri Rousseau to p
  
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• Fire the potato cannon! The Sisters of Perpetual Resistance take their art to the streets

  09-10-2015 18:39
  
  At Sisters HQ, anarcho-artist Alannah Currie has challenged a crew of women to take on the establishment. Expect anti-rape cloaks, arm wrestles and tuba interventionsA century ago, Mary Richardson lurked in Trafalgar Square’s National Gallery, avoiding the scrutiny of security guards. When the time was right, she released the last of a procession of safety pins up her left sleeve and pulled out an axe. Lunging at the Rokeby Venus, she slashed Velazquez’s work five times before being
  
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• Eleanor Macnair uses Play-Doh to refashion original works of art to moving effect

  09-10-2015 18:21
  
  Eleanor Macnair's startling re-creations are lent pathos by her use of every child's favourite modelling material
  
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• Sotheby’s Announces Sale of Rare Double-Sided Picasso, Monet Masterpiece

  09-10-2015 18:20 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s has announced that a rarely seen painting from Picasso’s Blue Period, La Gommeuse (1901), as well as one of Monet’s major Waterlilies paintings, Nymphéas (1908), will be auctioned at their Impressionist and modern art evening sale in New York … Read More
  
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• Ringo Starr's photos of The Beatles: The band's best photographer on his new memoir

  09-10-2015 18:20
  
  They were the most photographed band in the world, but even at the height of the Beatles' fame, no one trained a lens on them more enthusiastically than Ringo Starr. He talks to Craig McLean, and we publish a selection of his pictures of John, Paul, George and friends
  
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• Have You Noticed The Odd Reviews Of The New Whitney Museum?

  09-10-2015 17:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Critics of the Whitney have made this problem particularly clear by their tendency to heap praise on the galleries while expressing indifference or hostility toward the building as a whole—a schizy split often reflecting a division of editorial labor in which the art critic cheers how great the art looks and then hands off to an architecture critic to trash the structure that houses them.”
  
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• ‘I Will Not Be a Sunday Painter’: Alberto Burri Makes a Picture, in 1954

  09-10-2015 17:41 via artnews.com
  Today the Guggenheim opens “Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting,” a retrospective of the Italian artist who died in 1995. The show, which runs through January 16, is the first major Burri retrospective in over 30 years and for many … Read More
  
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• Lee Miller: from fashion to the front line

  09-10-2015 16:32
  
  A new book and exhibition focus on women’s lives in the Second World War through the photography of Lee Miller 
  
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• When LOVE takes over: how Robert Indiana's artwork conquered the planet

  09-10-2015 16:16
  
  The American artist’s LOVE sculpture is more famous than the Mona Lisa. What a pity most people don’t know that he made it – and that he didn’t copyright it in the 60s
  When Pope Francis came to the US recently, he was greeted by a very American artwork. On the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, just behind the platform where the pontiff held an outdoor mass, was a monumental red and blue sculpture – four letters, stacked two by two, to read AMOR. It’s a
  
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• Morning Links: Renoir Sucks At Painting, Part 2 Edition

  09-10-2015 15:15 via artnews.com
  Here’s an interview with the protest group Renoir Sucks At Painting. [Dazed Digital]A judge ruled that Paul Smith’s College could not accept philanthropist Joan Weill’s offer of a $20 million donation with the caveat that the school would have to change … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Renoir Sucks At Painting Edition

  09-10-2015 15:15 via artnews.com
  Here’s an interview with the protest group Renoir Sucks At Painting. [Dazed Digital]A judge ruled that Paul Smith’s College could not accept philanthropist Joan Weill’s offer of a $20 million donation with the caveat that the school would have to change … Read More
  
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• Blue period Picasso – with a little secret – goes under the hammer

  09-10-2015 12:29
  
  There’s more to La Gommeuse, an erotically charged painting of a cabaret performer, than first meets the eye – no wonder it’s creating waves in the global art auction marketOne of only a handful of blue period Picassos still in private hands will come to the market with a never publicly seen secret on the reverse of its canvas.Picasso’s La Gommeuse, an erotically charged 1901 painting of a cabaret performer, is remarkable in its own right and will create waves at the top
  
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• Eddie Peake at the Barbican: The Forever Loop art show features naked dancers and rollerskaters in sheer onesies

  09-10-2015 12:27
  
  Peake hopes to 'take viewers on a dramatic journey' round the Curve gallery, exploring sexuality and desire
  
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• Korea divided – a history in pictures

  09-10-2015 10:00
  
  The demilitarised zone acts as a two-and-a-half-mile buffer between North and South Korea. Here is a selection of images of the DMZ’s turbulent history from the Panmunjom Gallery’s exhibitionCostly and complicated: reuniting the Koreas
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• A look inside the artist's studio: Sophie McKay Knight paints Sara Sheridan

  09-10-2015 08:30
  
  In a series of sittings, artist Sophie McKay Knight has been painting novelist Sara Sheridan for an artwork that will be entered into the BP portrait award 2015. Guardian photojournalist Murdo MacLeod was invited into the studio to document the process and explore the intimate relationship between the artist and her subject Continue reading...
  
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