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• The Guy Who Ran McSweeney’s Wants To Re-Teach Us How To Read, Using An App

  15-11-2015 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This might all sound very precious, or very insufferable. But Horowitz is used to people feeling that way: It’s the same sort of criticism that’s long been levied at McSweeney’s, the indie publishing organization that Horowitz ran for the better part of a decade. The cabins expand upon the aggressively twee style that made McSweeney’s publications into bookshelf fixtures in Brooklyn studios and dorm rooms across the land, but the work Horowitz does in those cabins
  
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• Betye Saar’s Work Couldn’t Be More Relevant, So Where Are The Shows?

  15-11-2015 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘I guess it’s always a problem to get recognized in your hometown,’ she reflects. ‘But they can’t wait and wait because then I’ll die and it’ll cost big bucks,’ she adds with a laugh. ‘Then they will pay for their hesitation.'”
  
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• Can Architecture Help Heal The Rift Between Police And African American Communities?

  15-11-2015 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The police station Gang envisions would be more like a town center than a fortress. A gym, open to the public as well as the police, would rise across the street. Cops, teachers and firefighters would live in nearby housing. Some of the parking lots around the station would be transformed into parks. The idea is to have police rub shoulders with residents, building bonds of trust.”
  
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• How The Artistic Director Of The Toronto International Film Festival Moved Toward Art

  15-11-2015 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The art world at that time, for better or worse, was full of these people who had these long treatises on their work. I think the art world has changed a little bit since then – there’s been a return to more direct practice and less thinking through the art before you make the art. But when I was coming up, it was all about the ideas, and the ideas I was familiar with were from literature and film.”
  
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• Meet The Artist Who Created The ‘Peace For Paris’ Symbol (No, It Wasn’t Banksy)

  15-11-2015 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “How much time transpired between when you heard about the attacks and when you set about creating the image?
  “A minute, maybe. It was done on my lap, on a very loose sketchbook, with a brush and ink.”
  
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• Stand Aside, ‘Jane Eyre’ – New, Unpublished Charlotte Brontë Works Discovered

  15-11-2015 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Both the poem and the prose piece deal with characters from Angria, a fictional kingdom that Charlotte created with her brother Branwell, and wrote about in several stories, some of which were originally scrawled in small handmade books.”
  
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• Alexander Calder: Discovering a joyous reading of the experimental artist’s work at Tate Modern

  15-11-2015 14:16
  
  Alexander Calder explored an array of subjects and ideas through his finely-balanced mobile sculptures
  
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• Audrey Pilkington obituary

  15-11-2015 14:15
  
  My mother, Audrey Pilkington, a distinctive painter, who has died aged 93, established Clock House art centre in Bruisyard, Suffolk, which was renowned for its enchanting garden and generous hospitality.She was born in the village of Newton in the Forest of Bowland on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, a beautiful landscape that had a profound influence on her future creative life. Her father, George Pilkington, was a land agent, and her mother, Florence (nee Broadley), was a teacher. After attend
  
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• Frozen in time: artists at lunch in Wheeler’s, March 1963

  15-11-2015 11:30
  
  London’s finest artists share a long, bohemian lunch of oysters, fizz and cigsWhen RB Kitaj invented the term “School of London” in 1976 to denote a group of postwar figurative artists that included him, Leon Kossoff and Maggi Hambling, he wasn’t really thinking about where they had their lunch. But the five painters in John Deakin’s evocative photograph – from left, Timothy Behrens, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews – clear
  
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• The seven ages of an artist

  15-11-2015 10:00
  
  Whether artists hit their stride right after college or make their best work in their final years, the creative career seldom has a conventional trajectory. We asked seven leading artists aged 24 to 80 what they haved learned from a life in artThe Japanese master Hokusai was one day found weeping at his workbench because he believed he had not yet learned enough about drawing. He was 80. On his deathbed, eight years later, he cried out, “If heaven would only grant me 10 more years, I might
  
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• Susan Hiller, 75: ‘Self-doubt is always present for artists’

  15-11-2015 10:00
  
  She’s seen great advances in gender equality but says Britain has become a harder place for artists to thrive Related: The seven ages of an artist I always wanted to be an artist. This was my fantasy as a child. I grew up in Coral Gables, Florida. During the time I lived there, it changed from being a self-contained community to a suburb of Miami. My mother trained as a psychometrist – an expert in psychological testing. My father was a businessman, rather a wild one who started and
  
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• Richard Deacon, 66: ‘I wouldn’t like to feel it’d be a failure to stop’

  15-11-2015 10:00
  
  The master of abstract sculpture has learned to ride the ups and downs of his own career – but reserves the right to retire Related: The seven ages of an artist I was starting out as an artist in the 70s when the art market barely existed for contemporary art. There was virtually no commercial activity. The idea of a career didn’t really come into it. I’m not particularly practical, I’m slightly clumsy and inept, but tools and materials and the relationship of action to t
  
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• Rachel Whiteread, 52: ‘In my 50s, I’m clearer about what I’m trying to do’

  15-11-2015 10:00
  
  The YBA sculptor who became the first woman to win the Turner prize feels lucky to have been able to live off her art Related: The seven ages of an artist I was born in Ilford, Essex. When I was seven, we moved to London’s Muswell Hill which in those days was rough and ready. I went to Creighton comprehensive school – it was terrible, an experiment. But the art department, with Eileen Rapley and Lesley Burgess, was fantastic. I plonked my way through school doing as little as possibl
  
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• Rachel Jones, 24: ‘Trying to second-guess what other people want is a recipe for disaster’

  15-11-2015 10:00
  
  She wondered how she’d ever make a living as a painter, but there was nothing else she was good at… Related: The seven ages of an artist I am 24. I was born in Whitechapel. My family lives in Essex. I had always loved drawing and was good at it. It was a way of escaping. I remember when I was still a schoolgirl thinking: how does anyone make a living being an artist? At school, it is assumed art is not a proper job. I decided then I had to do something else: I got a scholarship to d
  
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• Paula Rego, 80: ‘Painting is not a career. It’s an inspiration’

  15-11-2015 10:00
  
  The Portuguese artist sees painting as a way of exacting revenge, and says her work has become less erotic as she’s aged Related: The seven ages of an artist I’m not sure when I decided to be an artist: it was what I did best at school. I drew to please my mother, who was doing an arts correspondence course with the UK. When I was very small – maybe four – I would draw on the floor, which I continued to do for years. While I was drawing, I would make a noise – a gro
  
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• Laure Prouvost, 37: ‘I feel I have lived many lives’

  15-11-2015 10:00
  
  The London-based French artist who won the Turner prize in 2013 is glad success didn’t find her before her 30sMy art is about blurring the boundary between fiction and reality. It is about audience – about digging deeply and, maybe, getting lost. I am 37. I am interested in the way we humans love to organise things age-wise. It is interesting that we want to say: you belong in that decade, yet emotions are ageless – timeless. Related: The seven ages of an artist It's hard to be
  
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• George Shaw, 49: ‘Every second, every ounce of time has to be accounted for’

  15-11-2015 10:00
  
  The older painter George Shaw gets, the less he can stand wasting time – or time-wasters Related: The seven ages of an artist I did not ever want to be a painter. But I was good at drawing. As a young child, I remember drawing a big battleship with a load of planes flying around it and people jumping off – a kind of masterpiece, something you would see in the Louvre: a huge history painting. It was only when I was at the Royal College that I felt I wanted to make a painting, but Airf
  
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• Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture review – the master of perpetual motion

  15-11-2015 09:00
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Spinning abstract still lifes on a single wire, creating antic worlds out of next to nothing, Alexander Calder reinvented sculpture by making it danceA short story about Alexander Calder gives that merry man in miniature. It is the autumn of 1930, and the American is in Paris showing his famous circus of wire strongmen, acrobats and animals to the masters of European modernism. He sends a cheery invitation to Mondrian. This results in a return request to visit to the austere
  
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• Mishka Henner’s The Fields captures the scale of America's oil industry

  15-11-2015 00:01
  
  The conceptual artist made use of the vast array of satellite imagery that captures every square foot of the globe to address issues of surveillance, ownership and the environment
  
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