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• Jeff Koons on his Gazing Ball Paintings: 'It's not about copying'

  09-11-2015 22:41
  
  The artist’s new show presents repainted versions of masterpieces, from Titian’s Venus and Mars to the Mona Lisa, with a shiny blue sphere placed in front of eachStanding in front of the Mona Lisa – only this version was around three times the size of the original and had a blue sphere on a shelf that jutted out from the painting – the artist Jeff Koons noted that he wasn’t the first artist to reinterpret Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece. Marcel Duchamp and And
  
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• ‘These Are Works That I Enjoy’: Jeff Koons on His Amazing Blue Balls

  09-11-2015 21:33 via artnews.com
  On Monday morning, the artist Jeff Koons stood in Gagosian Gallery’s West 21st Street location in Chelsea, discussing his new show at the space with a small gathering of reporters. The exhibition features work from his “Gazing Ball” series. For … Read More
  
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• Classroom posters get a design makeover: The one-man mission to transform the walls of our schools

  09-11-2015 20:48
  
  Pop-science is combining with modern design to create a new vogue for educational posters that will look as good at home as they do in the classroom
  
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• ‘Claire Fontaine: Love Is Never Enough’ at Air de Paris

  09-11-2015 19:34 via artnews.com
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• Frida Kahlo, hija de la Ciudad de México – una vida en fotografías

  09-11-2015 19:03
  
  Frida Kahlo dejó su huella en la ciudad donde nació en 1907 y vivió con Diego Rivera hasta su muerte en 1954. Su hogar, La Casa Azul, es hoy un museo y sitio de peregrinaje para muchos quienes consideran a la pintora mexicana una iniciadora del feminismo• Read this article in English Continue reading...
  
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• Frida Kahlo and her Casa Azul home – a lifetime in pictures

  09-11-2015 19:02
  
  Frida Kahlo left her mark on the city where she was born in 1907 and lived with Diego Rivera until her death in 1954. Her home, the Casa Azul, is now a museum and pilgrimage site for many who consider the artist an early Mexican feminist Lee este artículo en español aquíContinue reading...
  
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• A bird in the hand: the boy who threw away a Picasso

  09-11-2015 18:56
  
  Actor Brian Blessed’s story of rejecting a drawing by Picasso is fascinating but odd: how could anyone not recognise a dove by the greatest artist since Raphael?The booming actor Brian Blessed has a flair for a story. Asked by a newspaper if he ever made a financial mistake, he revealed that when he was 12 he met Pablo Picasso. The greatest artist of the 20th century was in Sheffield for a peace congress and the boy Blessed cheekily asked if he really was Picasso – then challenged hi
  
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• Rotation, rotation, rotation! Alexander Calder and his high-wire circus act

  09-11-2015 18:43
  
  Tate Modern, London
  A conversation with Mondrian in 1930 set in motion Alexander Calder’s glorious mobile sculptures – and his balletic constellations are still breathtaking todaySomehow I had relegated Alexander Calder to a world of old New Yorker cartoons, with twangly mobiles dangling over the trust-fund infant’s cot, and brightly-coloured steel sculptures lending a joshing, lumbering air to windswept corporate plazas. Calder’s datedness felt like a future we no longer
  
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• Pyotr Pavlensky is setting Russia's evil history ablaze

  09-11-2015 18:18
  
  By torching the doors of Moscow’s security service HQ, the radical artist ties its sinister history – the KGB, the Gulag, the secret police that boiled people alive – to Putin’s current reign. No wonder he was arrested for hooliganismPyotr Pavlensky is not exactly a subtle artist. The radical Russian performance artist made world headlines in 2013 when he nailed his scrotum to Red Square. Now he has been arrested for setting fire to the front door of the Federal Security
  
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• Sotheby’s Q3 Loss Shrinks Versus 2014, Buoyed by Inventory Sales, Finance Unit

  09-11-2015 18:17 via artnews.com
  Today, Sotheby’s released financial results for its third quarter, which ended September 20, 2015, reporting a net loss of $17.9 million, equal to 26 cents a share, which was an improvement over the $27.7 million, or 40 cents a share, … Read More
  
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• Eugenie Vronskaya: How to paint Scotland from London

  09-11-2015 18:03
  
  ​Moving south from the Highlands spurred Eugenie Vronskaya into working on landscapes of her former home
  
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• Performance Artist Pyotr Pavlensky Sets Fire to Moscow Headquarters of Russian Security Services

  09-11-2015 17:54 via artnews.com
  Pyotr Pavlensky, who was previously best known as the Russian performance artist who nailed his scrotum to the street in Red Square to protest the police, has found a way to outdo himself: as The Guardian reports, Pavlensky set fire … Read More
  
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• Bowes Museum gets Van Dyck portrait in 'major acquisition for north'

  09-11-2015 17:54
  
  Portrait of artist’s friend Olivia Porter, which has been in collection of dukes of Northumberland since 17th century, accepted in lieu of taxA Van Dyck portrait of his friend Olivia Porter has been given to the nation in lieu of £2.8m inheritance tax after hanging for four centuries in the collections of the dukes of Northumberland.Arts Council England said the portrait had been allocated to the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle, County Durham, and called it “a major acquisition
  
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• Alexander Calder exhibition to show vandalised sculpture for first time

  09-11-2015 17:40
  
  Acrobats, one of the late American artist’s famous mobile sculptures, has been reconstructed and will feature in Tate Modern exhibtionA reconstructed Alexander Calder sculpture that was vandalised in 1929is to go on display for the first time at the largest exhibition of the artist’s work to be staged in the UK.
  Acrobats is one of about 100 works that will make up the Tate Modern show exploring Calder, one of the most important artists of the last century. He is perhaps best known fo
  
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• Army for hire: the artist employing ghost soldiers to invade Facebook

  09-11-2015 17:37
  
  In resurrecting an 18th-century mercenary army, Constant Dullaart has found a novel way to skewer the social media empireConstant Dullaart uses the internet to expose the internet. The Dutch artist, who once hunted down the first ever Photoshopped image – so he could see it before it was altered – is now taking on the ultimate champion of digital fantasies: Facebook.He’s hiring a ghost army of 18th-century soldiers to attack the most mighty empire of today. His online art inter
  
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• Habitat: Tom Otterness

  09-11-2015 16:32 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces Read More
  
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• Tras los pasos de Frida Kahlo: ¿Cómo está cambiando la vida de las mujeres en la Ciudad de México?

  09-11-2015 15:59
  
  La artista es reverenciada como una mujer modelo que atacó los tabúes de su tiempo. Su ciudad natal atrae admiradores de todo el mundo, pero ¿qué progreso ha habido hacia la igualdad de sexos?• Read this article in EnglishEn cualquier discusión acerca de los cambios en la vida de las mujeres en la Ciudad de México, hay un nombre ineludible. Descrita como “la artista femenina más famosa en la historia” por la Tate Modern, el ascens
  
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• Classic paintings inserted into modern life are wonderfully stark

  09-11-2015 15:33
  
  Caravaggio meets caravans
  
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• De micro a macro: guía de la Ciudad de México de la artista visual Melanie Smith

  09-11-2015 15:06
  
  La artista británica Melanie Smith explica lo que la ha mantendio en la Ciudad de México desde 1989. Videos por Melanie Smith, fotografías de Adam WisemanRead this article in English here
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• Morning Links: Jackson Pollock Forgeries Edition

  09-11-2015 14:38 via artnews.com
  A group of Jackson Pollock works may not be authentic—experts are saying that certain pigments in the canvases were not commercially available before the artist’s death in 1956. [The Art Newspaper]Archeologist Sarah H. Parcak has won the TED Prize for … Read More
  
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• How Do You Train For A 24-Hour Musical Theatre Marathon?

  09-11-2015 14:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Each decade gets an hour, an outfit, and ten songs (give or take), which were popular among the specific segment of America that Mac has focused on for that span: ‘90’s alternative lesbians, say, or turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants. It is a queer, feminist, anti-racist version of American history, and judy (Mac’s stage gender pronoun) tells it with sequins, balloons, and plastic toys.”
  
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• Artist Heather Cassils is set on fire – and opens our eyes to violence

  09-11-2015 13:28
  
  Inextinguishable Fire, performed at the National Theatre as part of Spill festival, takes on the mantle of every violent act you have ever heard about
  On Sunday evening, the Spill festival ended not with a bang but with flames being extinguished on the stage of the National’s Dorfman theatre where, 14 seconds previously, the Canadian artist Heather Cassils had been set on fire. It was the first and, Cassils has said, last ever live performance of Inextinguishable Fire, a piece that already
  
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• Two Of The Greatest Male Dancers, Retired And Now Reunited … On TV

  09-11-2015 13:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s really not a documentary. That said, there are elements of truth. Ethan has said before, which I’ll steal, there are these personalities in the dance world, and on this show they’re kind of all in one room (laughs). And as long as there was some dance shown, that’s one way to reassure ourselves that we’re engaging in a worthwhile endeavor.”
  
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• In the footsteps of Frida Kahlo: how is life changing for Mexico City's women?

  09-11-2015 10:00
  
  Unconventional and free-spirited, the artist is revered as a female role model who took on the taboos of her day. Her home city draws admirers from across the world, but how far has it come on equality?In any discussion about how life is changing for women in Mexico City, one name looms large. Described as “the most famous female artist in history” by Tate Modern, Frida Kahlo’s rise to full international icon occurred a half-century after her death. But her enduring importance
  
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• From micro to macro: visual artist Melanie Smith's mind-altering guide to Mexico City

  09-11-2015 09:00
  
  Showcasing some of her award-winning video artworks, British artist Melanie Smith explains the captivating complexities that have kept her in Mexico City since 1989. Photography by Adam Wiseman Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 11.08.15

  09-11-2015 07:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  An Ancient Dance Play Meets New Music
  Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto dance together again in a new approach to a Noh play. Wendy Whelan and puppeteers Leah Hofmann and Rowan Magee in Hagoromo. Photo: Julieta Cervantes It is a marvelous robe!… … read more
  AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2015-11-07
   
  Increasing the Capitalization of Creativity
  I am disturbed by the sheer amount of waste in the theater. I don’t mean wasted wood or fabric – althoug
  
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• A Risky, Rebooted Phillips Sale Sees New Record for Le Corbusier on a Taboo Night of the Week

  09-11-2015 04:50 via artnews.com
  Phillips, the perennial bridesmaid of the New York sales, gambled this year by mixing Impressionist and Modern work into its usually all-contemporary lots—and by scheduling the auction on that most taboo of sales nights, Sunday. But it seems the house … Read More
  
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• The Biggest Classical Moments In Bond History

  09-11-2015 04:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s common for movies to connect classical music to characters like this to portray them as sophisticated, high-class villains as opposed to any generic thug, and for a series built on tropes and cliches, it totally works!”
  
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• Young Playwrights Win New Award In Honor Of Philip Seymour Hoffman

  09-11-2015 03:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The winners will split a $45,000 prize. The playwrights will also be given a weeklong retreat with a director, dramaturg and actors at an organic farm in upstate New York, and the plays will be given staged readings, intended to help with their development, at regional theaters around the nation.”
  
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• Ellsworth Kelly, At 92, Hasn’t Run Out Of Ideas Yet

  09-11-2015 03:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His mood, eager and confiding, comes as a rebuke to the wistful sighs of the oxygen tank to which he is now hooked up. ‘I want to live another 15 years,’ he says, sadly. ‘But I know I’m not going to.'”
  
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• The Small Minds Of Developers Are Ravaging The Beauty Of Edinburgh

  09-11-2015 02:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What is it with this city, whose custodians, over centuries, seem to be ashamed of having so much natural beauty bestowed upon it and constantly seek ways to diminish it?”
  
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• The NYT Delivers Virtual Reality Glasses To Thousands Of Subscribers

  09-11-2015 01:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Times says it is betting big on VR, not just following the pack to prove its technological prowess. The outlet aims to set itself apart from the competition, both in terms of quality and accessibility to its audience.”
  
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• Untitled(he had used the word earlier and now she had used it).

  09-11-2015 01:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  they worked behind a curtain. they appeared from behind it when they felt like it. he didn’t wait for them. he seated myself. he listened to two people talk. he didn’t like hearing them because he couldn’t make out what they were saying.he had a woman,v, who cooked. he rested his mouth on her vagina when she told stories. she had orange red hair and white hair. she had long hands and fingers that she talked with. he knew what she feared because he knew what she wanted  and
  
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• Using Art To Gloss Over Gentrification In New York

  09-11-2015 00:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A few days before the party, a billboard went up over the intersection of Bruckner Boulevard and the Third Avenue Bridge, advertising the so-called ‘Piano District’ to drivers commuting between Manhattan and Westchester County and Connecticut, promising ‘luxury waterfront living’ and ‘world-class dining, fashion, art + architecture.’ Reaching back into the distant, depoliticized past is a great way for developers to imbue a neighborhood with ambient aut
  
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