Arts news

• Taiwan Opens A Major New Branch Of Its Popular National Museum

  28-12-2015 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The flagship Taipei museum boasts more than 655,000 Chinese artefacts spanning 7,000 years from the prehistoric Neolithic period to the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. They were removed from the Beijing Palace Museum in the 1930s by China’s Nationalist government to prevent them falling into the hands of invading Japanese troops.”
  
  Read more

• Why It’s Healthy To Reconsider Our Statues And Monuments

  28-12-2015 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mysteriously, even uncannily, an artefact, especially a life-like human figure, persuasively stands in for what it represents. When that stone phantom seizes you, the instinctive response is to struggle free.”
  
  Read more

• The Problem With Opera? The Way We Subsidize It!

  28-12-2015 21:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Enough already. The maxim that opera must not become a museum has made it one. Mess is not a message. Fifty years of patience with it are about 50 too many. The crutch has slowed us down.”
  
  Read more

• For 23 Years Christo Has Been Trying To Do A Project In Colorado. Coloradans Are Fighting Him

  28-12-2015 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They have been relentless and rude, insulting his hair and clothes, making fun of his accent at public meetings. They have forced him to invest more than $7 million on land-impact studies and lawyer fees to fight court challenges. They’ve called him a foreigner, which he’s not, and criticized his art, reminding journalists and elected officials repeatedly that they are too unsophisticated to actually understand his work, which is a polite, Colorado way of saying they think it
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• ‘I Got Rhythm: Art and Jazz Since 1920’ at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

  28-12-2015 19:31 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
  Read more

• Why Are There So Few Women Movie Critics?

  28-12-2015 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s been noted before that women write just 18 percent of the top reviews and constitute only 20 percent of top critics on Rotten Tomatoes—but it’s also the case that in four of the top film critics’ associations, women don’t even account for a quarter of the overall membership.”
  
  Read more

• Leslie Waddington obituary

  28-12-2015 18:08
  
  Art dealer who set up his Mayfair gallery in 1966, where he gave lifelong support to British artists and championed the American avant gardeUnfailingly scrupulous and principled during five decades as a dealer in modern and contemporary art, Leslie Waddington, who has died aged 81, could never be called a “marketeer”. That was his disparaging term for the new breed of speculators who have turned high-priced painting and sculpture into vehicles for short-term profit. Such commercialis
  
  Read more

• Ellsworth Kelly: remembering an abstract artist with perfect pitch

  28-12-2015 18:01
  
  Focussing almost entirely on shape and colour, the late artist made artwork felt with your body as much as your eyes, with an unerring spareness and eleganceFor 65 years, a period longer than many artists’ lifetimes, Ellsworth Kelly focussed almost entirely on shape and colour. His paintings had a kind of perfect pitch and feel for scale. You could pass them by, but soon find yourself turning back to look again: as you look, and the longer you look, they open up. Looking is complicated, an
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• How Scientists Are Using 3D Imaging To Record Endangered Archaeological Treasures

  28-12-2015 17:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Faced with the apparent impotence of governments and international agencies to stop ISIS’ fanatical levelers, other cultural organizations are trying to create 3-D records of heritage sites to preserve them, at least in digital form, for future generations.”
  
  Read more

• Why We Still Need Physical Bookstores (And Why They’re Not Going To Go Away)

  28-12-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Customers regularly threaten booksellers with Amazon, like it’s a weapon they can deploy to get what they want from us. “I could get this much cheaper on Amazon,” people tell me when checking out.
  
  Read more

• Ellsworth Kelly – a life in pictures

  28-12-2015 16:41
  
  The pioneering American abstract painter and sculptor has died aged 92. Trained in Boston and having spent his formative years in Paris, Kelly used intensely humming colours to create some of the defining images of the century Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Studies: A Definite Link Between Intelligence And Longevity

  28-12-2015 15:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The link between IQ and mortality has now been replicated in upwards of 20 longitudinal studies from around the world, and has given rise to the field of cognitive epidemiology, which focuses on understanding the relationship between cognitive functioning and health.”
  
  Read more

• 10 Art World Things From 2015 That I Don’t Want to Hear About Anymore

  28-12-2015 15:24 via artnews.com
  Lists. Rankings. Names. Things. Arbitrary markers of time that we as a culture occasionally celebrate with lists of rankings of names and things. Presented without further commentary.10. Auction records9. Björk8. Marina Abramović/backlash to Marina Abramović7. Instagram6. Jerry Saltz’s use of … Read More
  
  Read more

• Morning Links: Ellsworth Kelly Edition

  28-12-2015 15:03 via artnews.com
  Good morning. Here is the latest.ELLSWORTH KELLY, 1923–2015: Deeply sad news. One of the great artists of the past century years, Ellsworth Kelly, who inexorably altered the course of abstract painting, died on Sunday. He was 92. Many outlets have run obituaries, … Read More
  
  Read more

• Researchers: Dance Helps Mitigate Symptoms Of Parkinson’s

  28-12-2015 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Academics from the University of Roehampton have found that ballet can have significant physical and emotional benefits for patients.”
  
  Read more

• Remembering Ellsworth Kelly

  28-12-2015 14:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ” He remained to the end a resolutely independent artist, and never wavered from his vision of colorful austerity, producing art that was resistant, yet never trivial, always clean, bold and deceptively simple.”
  
  Read more

• Ellsworth Kelly obituary

  28-12-2015 13:18
  
  One of the most important American abstract artists who created brilliant modular canvases and spectacular outdoor sculptures in steelThe American abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly, who has died aged 92, created sharply defined compositions that were, at least initially, linked to his visual experiences – “a window, or a fragment of a piece of architecture, or someone’s legs ...” In the early 1950s, his style anticipated the unbroken colours and clear lines of hard edge pai
  
  Read more

• Art export ban should be extended to stop 'worrying' flow of treasured works from UK, says shadow culture secretary

  28-12-2015 11:45
  
  Michael Dugher wants to extend current temporary ban, giving museums more time to raise money to save works
  
  Read more

• What Banksy did next: five fresh ideas for the street art agitator in 2016

  28-12-2015 11:00
  
  It’s been a busy 2015 for Banksy, who opened his own theme park and intervened in Europe’s refugee crisis. Here’s how he should wield his spraycan next yearIt’s been quite the year for every council worker’s favourite stencil owner. From his tour of Gaza to bringing Steve Jobs to Calais’s largest refugee camp, Banksy has highlighted the politics of many of 2015’s most troubled regions. Where he goes next is anyone’s guess. Surely it can’t be
  
  Read more

• London, a pilgrimage: Gustave Doré's historic visions of the capital city

  28-12-2015 10:12
  
  In 1869, French artist Gustave Doré began an extraordinary collaboration with the British journalist Blanchard Jerrold. Together, over four years, they produced a landmark account of the deprivation and squalor of mid-Victorian London Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Ellsworth Kelly, Giant of Abstract Painting, Dies at 92

  28-12-2015 06:14 via artnews.com
  Ellsworth Kelly, who began his influential 70-year career with thrilling advances in abstract painting that he would go on to explore and hone, with rigor and wit, for decades, died yesterday at the age of 92. Matthew Marks, the dealer who … Read More
  
  Read more

• Opera Audiences Are In Serious Decline. Here’s What We Need To Do

  28-12-2015 05:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The basic reason is that for all its magnificence as an art form, opera is no longer seen as an art of our time. The operas presented by Opera Australia especially were mostly written in the 18th and 19th centuries.”
  
  Read more

• Know Your Purpose In Life? Researchers Reveal The Benefits

  28-12-2015 05:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Individuals who reported a greater sense of purpose preferred larger future gains to smaller immediate ones,” the researchers report. “Importantly, these results persisted after accounting for dispositions in personality traits and positive (emotions), suggesting a robust and unique association between having purpose and future-oriented behavior.”
  
  Read more

• Painter Ellsworth Kelly, 92

  28-12-2015 05:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Kelly was a true original, forging his art equally from the observational exactitude he gained as a youthful bird-watching enthusiast; from skills he developed as a designer of camouflage patterns while in the Army; and from exercises in automatic drawing he picked up from European surrealism.”
  
  Read more

• Ellsworth Kelly, the American abstract painter and sculptor, dies at 92

  28-12-2015 04:25
  
  The artist, who was influenced by Picasso and Matisse, bridged European and American modernism, said gallery owner Matthew Marks.The American abstract painter and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly has died at the age of 92. Matthew Marks of the Matthew Marks Gallery said Kelly died of natural causes at his home in Spencertown, three hours north of New York. Marks said he was told of the death by Kelly’s partner, Jack Shear. Related: Ellsworth Kelly changed the face of art. At 92, he's still not don
  
  Read more

• Why Indians Aren’t Paying For Online Video

  28-12-2015 00:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In India, piracy is pervasive, Internet connection speeds are pokey, and thousands of full-length movies and TV episodes are legally available for free. Cable and satellite TV subscriptions cost just $2 or $3 a month, which makes paying just 50 cents for a movie seem expensive.”
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUKnews on Twitter!