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• Plan to turn Peckham car park into London's largest group of art studios rejected

  06-11-2015 23:21
  
  Southwark Council chose a rival proposal over Rohan Silva and Hannah Berry's Bold Home plan to create 800 art studios
  
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• Big Heat: The Bronx Museum Champions the Brave, Unflinching Martin Wong

  06-11-2015 23:16 via artnews.com
  Martin Wong loved firemen. The late East Village artist, whose paintings stand as some of the most original and brave art produced in New York in the past 40 years, painted an intimate portrait of one in bed, still wearing … Read More
  
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• Alex Ross: NY Phil In Search Of Charisma

  06-11-2015 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No matter who is in charge, a cadre of skeptics, including a fair number of the players, will believe that someone else could do better.
  
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• ‘H.C. Westermann: See America First’ at Venus Over Manhattan

  06-11-2015 22:13 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “H.C. Westermann: See America First” is on view at Venus Over Manhattan, exhibiting sculptures and works on paper by the influential postwar artist. The show is on view … Read More
  
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• Dorotheum Previews Modern and Contemporary Sales, Featuring Richter, Zero Group

  06-11-2015 21:57 via artnews.com
  Dorotheum is responsible for the content of this post.Whether you’re buying art in the interest of investment, collecting, or interior decorating, minimalist pieces have a rare appeal. Steering away from the figurative work that defined previous periods in art history, … Read More
  
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• Staff Turmoil At Orlando’s New Performing Arts Center

  06-11-2015 21:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  During the past nine months, the Orlando Sentinel interviewed more than a dozen former midlevel and high-level center staff members. The ex-employees, all of whom said they left of their own accord, characterized their former work environment as “toxic.” All requested anonymity, citing potential damage to their careers; in the close-knit arts world, many will likely need to do business with the center again.
  
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• Street Legal: Philadelphia’s Space 1026 Celebrates 18th Birthday With Group Show

  06-11-2015 20:32 via artnews.com
  Over the past 18 years, Philadelpia’s Space 1026 has fostered a crucial community within its city and exhibited work from an impressive list of local and out of town artists, including everyone from Cory Arcangel’s collective BEIGE to Barry McGee … Read More
  
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• Juliana Huxtable interrogates 'older, whiter versions' of history at MoMA

  06-11-2015 18:49
  
  Born intersex into a Baptist family, Huxtable has captivated New York’s club scene and the art world as she heads uptown to explore identity at Performa 15For the first time, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Performa, the performing art biennial that celebrates its 10th anniversary this month, have joined together to co-commission a work. The inspiration for the collaboration is Juliana Huxtable, the transgender artist, DJ and downtown personality who will stage two performances of
  
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• Thatcher-gate and the ‘other KKK’ – the week in art

  06-11-2015 18:00
  
  The V&A vetoes Margaret Thatcher’s powersuits, as we remember the UK’s oddest youth movement. Plus Jeff Wall worries his career has been a mistake and Paris celebrates the Musée Rodin reopening … with chocolate Thinkers – all in your weekly roundupSusan Hiller
  Early and celebrated works by this artist of ghosts, memories and interstellar mysteries.
  • Lisson Gallery, London, from 13 November until 9 January Continue reading...
  
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• Photographic Memory: Artur Walther Has What May Be the World’s Largest and Most Important Private Collection of African Photography

  06-11-2015 17:41 via artnews.com
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• Photographic Memory: Artur Walther Has Built What May Be the World’s Largest and Most Important Private Collection of African Photography

  06-11-2015 17:41 via artnews.com
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• Bhopal exhibition commemorates 30th anniversary of disaster

  06-11-2015 17:39
  
  Photographer Francesca Moore’s show in London features images of wall surrounding site and families affected by disasterIt was just past midnight on 3 December 1984 when a pesticide plant at the heart of Bhopal, India, exploded. It was the worst industrial disaster in history, killing at least 3,000 people in the days following the incident and about 15,000 subsequently, and exposing tens of thousands to poisonous gas.
  More than 30 years later, the site stands almost untouched. The factory
  
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• The Metaphysician of Bologna: John Berger on Giorgio Morandi, in 1955

  06-11-2015 17:30 via artnews.com
  Giorgio Morandi’s spare still lifes usually feature only a few objects, many of which tend to be in shades of beige or off-white, and prefigure the work of the Minimalists and Light and Space artists, who would look to him in … Read More
  
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• Skarstedt Gallery Now Represents Eric Fischl

  06-11-2015 17:20 via artnews.com
  Skarstedt Gallery announced that it now represents the painter and sculptor Eric Fischl. Fischl announced in May that he was splitting with Mary Boone Gallery, which had repped him for 30 years. Ron Warren, a partner and director at Mary … Read More
  
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• Low Rank On Google? Then Change The Name Of Your Museum

  06-11-2015 17:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Given] what pops up on Google as you look for places, the fact we did not have ‘museum’ in the name was not helpful to us,” said W. Richard West Jr.
  
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• The Highest-Paid Woman In Music This Year

  06-11-2015 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  She grossed more than $2 million per city over the course of 126 shows in our scoring period.
  
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• Intrusos en los cuartos de azotea: el origen invisible de la vanguardia cultural en la Ciudad de México

  06-11-2015 16:52
  
  En los años 20 un grupo de artistas y escritores como el Dr Atl, Nahui
  Ollin, Tina Modotti, Edward Weston o Salvador Novo, entre otros, ocuparon
  cuartos de azotea en la Ciudad de México en los que encontraron un espacio
  semi-invisible, ideal para la trasgresión y la expansión de barreras sociales y culturales, escribe Valeria LuiselliRead the English version of this article hereLas azoteas de la Ciudad de México por lo general son planas. Un parapeto delimita e
  
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• Scientists Are Growing Pieces Of Brains (And Learning A Lot)

  06-11-2015 16:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These mini versions mimic one or more parts of a brain. Since they grow and respond to drugs like portions of a living brain, researchers can learn from them in truly unprecedented ways.
  
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• Books Are Dangerous And We Must Be Protected From Them

  06-11-2015 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is probably the first time in history that young readers themselves are demanding protection from the disturbing content of their course texts, yet reading has been seen as a threat to mental health for thousands of years.”
  
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• ‘The 20th Century in a Box’: New York Historical Society Acquires Time Inc. Archive

  06-11-2015 16:26 via artnews.com
  The New York Historical Society announced today that Time Inc. has donated its archive–dating all the way back from 1898–to the organization. The archive is more than 7,500 linear feet and includes an estimated seven million documents.Among the contents are documents … Read More
  
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• Bacchus, booze and Balls: the story of alcohol in art

  06-11-2015 15:00
  
  From William Hogarth’s Gin Lane to deliberately amateurish photos of Gilbert & George at a bar, the seductions of alcohol are a recurring theme in art. A new exhibition serves Nicholas Lezard with sobering images of drinking and drunksAesthetic considerations, or rather evaluations, need not apply. That’s the point, and consolation, of exhibitions centred on a public theme rather than an artistic one. You get to see the bad as well as the good. Take Tate Britain’s forthcomi
  
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• Morning Links: Berlin Wall Fence Edition

  06-11-2015 14:32 via artnews.com
  Berlin is now planning to build a fence to protect the remains of the Berlin Wall from souvenir seekers. [The Guardian]Today, an exhibition titled “After The Moment: Reflections on Robert Mapplethorpe” opens at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. The show examines … Read More
  
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• 'Buffy' star is still out for blood

  06-11-2015 12:39
  
  Juliet Landau (Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is at work on two crowdfunded feature docs about vampires
  
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• Peter Blake: focusing on his portraits

  06-11-2015 12:38
  
   Portraits of people he has met, been close to, and admired
  
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• Easy Come, Easy Go: New Bosch Identified, Old Bosches Discredited

  06-11-2015 11:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Experts at the Bosch Research and Conservation Project (BRCP) have confirmed that a drawing previously attributed to one of Hieronymus Bosch’s workshop assistants was actually rendered by the Flemish master himself. … The news closely follows a similar but less celebratory announcement that two other paintings, long believed to be authentic Bosches, were actually imitations.”
  
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• Contagion, Poison And Trigger: Books Can Be Dangerous

  06-11-2015 11:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The current fuss over trigger warnings for university courses “is probably the first time in history that young readers themselves are demanding protection from the disturbing content of their course texts, yet reading has been seen as a threat to mental health for thousands of years.” Frank Furedi looks at that history.
  
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• Trespassers on the rooftops: a secret history of Mexico City's cultural revolutionaries

  06-11-2015 09:00
  
  In the 1920s, Mexico City’s roof spaces, or azoteas, became a laboratory for modernist creativity, offering a space where artists and thinkers could push the boundaries of culture and bridge the gaps in society, writes Valeria LuiselliMexico City rooftops – azoteas – are usually flat. A parapet wall encloses the roof area, creating a kind of open-air patio, less visible to neighbours than the common interior patios of colonial and neocolonial buildings, and not easily accessed
  
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• After Taubman Trip-Up, Sotheby’s Finds its Footing with a Respectable $306 M. Imp-Mod Evening Sale

  06-11-2015 04:59 via artnews.com
  Not 24 hours since the muted response to the collection of A. Alfred Taubman, which barely broke its low estimate with a $377 million sale Wednesday, Sotheby’s bounced back somewhat with a competent if at times dull $306.7 million Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale … Read More
  
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• Untitled(he thought he had read it before by another translator so that it seemed like he hadn’t read it.

  06-11-2015 02:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  she repeated sentences from a binder. she pulled her long black hair over herface. she walked to the right corner of the room with a book and read it.she repeated sentences in english. she didn’t always know what they meant.i’m looking for the restroom. she knew what the sentence meant. sometimes she used it when she wanted to introduce herself toan interesting person or when she wanted a coffee. i don’t drink tea, she said.i’m looking for the restroom. no. not coffee.she
  
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