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• New Rembrandt Owner Withdraws Application To Export It From Britain

  26-10-2015 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sotheby’s said “the buyer was considering a long-term loan to a British art institution, or a permanent loan to Penrhyn Castle in north Wales, where the portrait had been on display from 1949 to 2013.”
  
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• Abraaj Group Art Prize Announces 2016 Winning Artists

  26-10-2015 22:58 via artnews.com
  The Abraaj Group Art Prize announced today that this year’s winning artists are Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. The duo, who hail from Ramallah in the West Bank, will receive $100,000 from the Abraaj Group, a private equity manager that … Read More
  
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• Delaware’s Tax Haven For Art Collectors

  26-10-2015 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The warehouse, he says, offers art owners the same benefits as its better known European counterparts: discretion, security and tax savings. ‘In the past, they would have shipped it to Switzerland,’ he said one morning recently, gesturing at about 20 large crates in a 16,000-square-foot, climate-controlled space.”
  
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• The Theatre Company That Makes Collaborative Art Everywhere It Goes

  26-10-2015 21:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sitting in the circle, I am feverishly taking notes on the conversation and battling with a swell of emotion rising in my chest. You see, second Saturdays on tour are the quintessence of bittersweet.”
  
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• Looting In The Middle East Is (Very Much) Not Confined To ISIS-Held Areas

  26-10-2015 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The data show that the worst offenders of all were those in areas held by Kurdish and Syrian rebel fighters — places that, as Casana notes, ‘are, unsurprisingly, also the regions with the weakest centralized authority.'”
  
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• ‘A Thief Caught in the Act’ at Giò Marconi

  26-10-2015 19:30 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: A Thief Caught in the Act” is on view at Giò Marconi in Milan. The exhibition, featuring dramatically lit bird sculptures and waterfall animations … Read More
  
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• Charlotte Prodger's elegy to time, loss and casual sex

  26-10-2015 19:21
  
  Nina Simone on the edge, sex at a trucking stop, land art and a coffin road: the artist’s new film Stoneymollan Trail is like stepping inside another person’s brain. What a moving, perplexing experienceIn order to create her 1976 Sun Tunnels – four huge concrete tubes that lie miles from anywhere in the Utah desert – Nancy Holt employed a large crew, including an astrophysicist, an astronomer, engineers, surveyors, ditch-diggers, drillers, drivers and a helicopter pilot.
  
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• The Woman Who Started A Dance Company For People Who Have Full-Time, Non-Dance Jobs

  26-10-2015 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I spent one whole year formulating the business, the brand, and what I was actually trying to get at because I didn’t want to rush ahead into another show. I wanted to create a dance company for young professionals who were just like me. The target audience I was reaching was high-caliber dancers who wanted to continue dancing and choreographing into their adult lives.”
  
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• The Obamas Bring More Modern and Contemporary Art into the White House

  26-10-2015 19:06 via artnews.com
  Every U.S. president’s political vision comes with an artistic one, as well. As The New York Times reports, Barack Obama has broadened the scope of the White House’s art collection, replacing stuffy portraits with more modern and contemporary art.The article specifically … Read More
  
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• Christian Boltanski: the artist counting the seconds till his own demise

  26-10-2015 18:45
  
  The French artist is rough, gruff and slippery with the truth – and now he’s tackling life’s most frightening question with a clock that will stop the moment he does
  “Factual reality is not important,” says Christian Boltanski. This is not necessarily the first thing a journalist wants to hear from an interviewee. The French artist is talking about the day that the woman who co-wrote his “confessional”, La Vie Impossible, called up his brother to corrobo
  
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• UOVO Appoints Douglas M. Woodham President

  26-10-2015 18:19 via artnews.com
  UOVO, the “premier provider of collections management services and state-of-the-art storage facilities,” according to a press release, has appointed Douglas M. Woodham as president of the company, effective immediately. Woodham will be responsible for managing strategic initiatives to improve UOVO’s … Read More
  
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• Beirut’s Art Scene Is A (Tentatively) Happening Thing, Again

  26-10-2015 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The creative ferment is happening even as unrest in the region and domestic political instability have ground the economy and tourism to a near halt and threaten to embroil Lebanon in new conflicts.”
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence’s Essay Was About Equal Pay – And So Much More

  26-10-2015 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There was a time in Hollywood when it was easier to find great actresses, however unfairly compensated, all over the nation’s screens, playing all kinds of characters. Lawrence is only 25, and already she’s great at comedy, at drama, at anchoring a string of global smashes. She doesn’t need the money, as she wrote in her Lenny essay. But she’s had it with the double standards.”
  
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• Because Of His Antiracist Comments, Junot Díaz Gets Stripped Of An Award By The Dominican Republic

  26-10-2015 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Diaz, who was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to New Jersey at the age of six, went to Washington on Thursday with the Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat, there to urge the US government to take action to curb what they said was the persecution of large numbers of immigrants, mainly Haitians, in the Dominican Republic.”
  
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• Is The New York Philharmonic Moving To Hunter College During The Two-Year Renovation Of Its Hall?

  26-10-2015 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Orchestra officials, who have mapped where their subscribers and single-ticket buyers live, recognize that they will need to play most of their core season at centrally located spots in Manhattan, and that they will need a base of operations for most concerts and rehearsals. That is where Hunter comes in.”
  
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• Melik Ohanian Wins The 2015 Marcel Duchamp Prize

  26-10-2015 16:03 via artnews.com
  The 2015 Marcel Duchamp Prize has been awarded to French artist Melik Ohanian, Artforum reports. The award, which was established in 2000 by ADIAF (Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l’Art Français) in conjunction with the Centre Pompidou, National Museum … Read More
  
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• Charlotte Brontë sketch identified as self-portrait

  26-10-2015 15:57
  
  Experts say author made drawing, sketched on her school atlas, years before writing Jane Eyre in which protagonist draws herself in similar fashionA sketch of a woman’s head by Charlotte Brontë, previously thought to be of another pupil drawn while the author was at boarding school in Brussels, has been identified as a self-portrait. The literary biographer Claire Harman said the drawing, which she suggests shows Brontë looking into a mirror, preceded the novel Jane Eyre, in whic
  
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• Cronenberg at the 'beak' of his powers

  26-10-2015 15:29
  
  The outlandish names of prizes awarded at film festivals around the world
  
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• Cleaners throw piece of modern art in the bin because it looks like rubbish

  26-10-2015 15:09
  
  The Museion's cleaners mistook a piece of modern art for rubbish before throwing it out
  
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• The Internet Is Not Going To Let Lego Dictate What Materials Ai Weiwei Can Or Can’t Use

  26-10-2015 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Social media reaction was predictably ‘awesome.’ Many Lego owners offered to donate their bricks to [Ai] so he could complete his project.”
  
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• Ai Weiwei has not been censored: Lego is a toy, not a force for evil

  26-10-2015 14:51
  
  The dissident artist should know better than to call Lego’s refusal to sell him bricks censorship. And what are these ‘questionable values’ he’s talking about?The dissident artist Ai Weiwei has finally found a target, other than the Chinese government, worthy of his scorn. It is that notorious corporate source of evil … Lego. Yes. The artist who criticises China’s suppression of free speech and who has campaigned for important causes such as justice for the v
  
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• If Publishers’ Workforces Are 89 Percent White People, How Will Publishing Diversify?

  26-10-2015 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Diversity as an editor begins with your friends, your teachers, and your books. What rooms are you in? What conversations? Who are the people in your social media feeds? When you go home, is your family all white? When you go to a party, are your friends all white? When you look down your bookshelf, are all your books by white authors? Those are some tests. What people call diversity has always been, to me, my life. And so if your tastes are not diverse, your life may also not be. And if
  
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• Morning Links: Darth Vader Edition

  26-10-2015 13:39 via artnews.com
  In Ukraine, an artist turned a Lenin statue into a Darth Vader statue. [ABC News]Ai Weiwei is making a series of portraits with LEGOs, but the company wants nothing to do with it. [Kotaku]Polish father of Op art, Wojciech Fangor, … Read More
  
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• Slava of the Arctic: the world's most extreme weatherman

  26-10-2015 08:00
  
  Slava works at the worst weather station on Earth, with just a Morse code machine for company. Then one day, a photographer came bearing oranges, champagne and a parrotEvgenia Arbugaeva was born in Tiksi, a tiny port in arctic Russia, but moved to Moscow to study, before becoming a photographer in New York. Life in the Big Apple couldn’t have been further from the frozen world she had left behind. But, despite all its distractions, she yearned to go back. “It was isolated,” she
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 10.25.15

  26-10-2015 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sotheby’s Necessary But Bad Bet
  AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-10-25
  Perspectives on Classicism
  AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-10-25
  Who’s our competition?
  AJBlog: SandowPublished 2015-10-23Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose
  AJBlog: Field NotesPublished 2015-10-23Structure is everything, and nothing…
  AJBlog: The Artful ManagerPublished 2015-10-23
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• The London Underground Is Touting What Might Be The Worst Poetry Ever Written

  26-10-2015 05:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Like the lingering fart of a fat dog, it is impossible to ignore the poetry on the London Underground. There is something mind-numbingly awful about the posters that sit insultingly in trains and on the walls of Tube platforms. This city deserves better poetry because it would be impossible for its current batch to be any worse.”
  
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• Should London Be Getting A New Performance Hall That’s Only For One Orchestra?

  26-10-2015 04:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Among groups gathering to fight the recommended site are those worried about an expensive new facility that might come to be dominated by just one London orchestra and those who think the City of London is the wrong place to attract new audiences.”
  
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• Yes, Teenagers Still Need Libraries

  26-10-2015 03:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Libraries are one of the few places people can still go to ask questions face-to-face about anything from Shakespeare and atoms to how to get help with everything from house issues to mental health. The most vulnerable members of our society need spaces where information is available from people rather than just being ‘out there’ on the internet. Not everyone has a computer or knows how to find what they need. Not everyone has books at home or a well-stocked school library.&rd
  
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• What Do Westerners Think Africa Looks Like? The Lagos Photo Festival May Change Everyone’s Mind

  26-10-2015 02:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘There is hardly any photojournalism work this year,’ the festival curator, Cristina de Middel, said. ‘And that’s because the classical documentary approach to storytelling on the continent is exhausted.'”
  
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• Who Is To Blame For Jane Austen Erotica? The BBC, Of Course

  26-10-2015 01:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Rated titles on Goodreads at present include Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen, Pride and Penetration, Mr. Darcy’s Undoing, Felicity in Marriage (Erotic Pride and Prejudice Continuation, #1), and the succinctly titled Spank Me, Mr. Darcy.”
  
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• Dear Smartphone Users: You Are Psychotic Scroll Jockeys

  26-10-2015 00:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I realize that I am swimming against the tide of history here. But if I can ask a question that we may have overlooked in our rush to take advantage of everything that’s available to us in this new world, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?”
  
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