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• Untitled( Images of interiors, weather, distance and vulvas)

  13-01-2016 23:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  D’s knees are getting worse. he fears the surgeon’s knife and going under.He’s going for an MRI. he doesn’t feel anything in his calves and feet, the nerves aren’t responsive. A German American trainer is working with D. D hates to exercise. The exercises are less boring than he thought. If he keeps it up he’ll be able to use the stairs. It has been years since he used them. He has to meet with several doctors this week. He takes blood thinner to prevent a str
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: the British Empire strikes back, unravelling the Celtic enigma, plus Gavin Turk and Akram Khan

  13-01-2016 22:00
  
  Celts: Art and Identity, British Museum (until 31 January)Although we all think we have a handle on Celtishness, who the Celts really were and what is intrinsically Celtic is apparently a moveable feast. No one really knows the origin of the word that the Greeks used broadly to describe the peoples fr om the north; as outgoing British Museum director Neil MacGregor declares, “Celtic is a cultural construct that has changed its meaning many times.” But no matter. If you can ignore th
  
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• Rapture restored to Bernini’s Baroque masterpiece after clean-up reveals unity of design

  13-01-2016 22:00
  
  Five hundred years after the birth of St Teresa of Avila (1515-82), Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s emotive Baroque sculpture of the Spanish nun experiencing religious ecstasy has been restored. Conservators cleaned almost two decades of grime from statues in the Cornaro chapel of the Santa Maria della Vittoria church in Rome, including the angel poised to pierce the saint’s heart with a golden arrow and, on either side, relief busts of members of the Cornaro family, Bernini’s patrons.
  
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• If you've ever wondered what synaesthesia is like, watch this

  13-01-2016 22:00
  “To most of us music suggests definite mental images of form and color. The picture you are about to see is a novel scientific experiment—its object is to convey these mental images in visual form,” writes the avant-garde film-maker Oskar Fischinger in his introduction to the short animation An Optical Poem, commissioned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1938. Using geometric paper cut-outs and fishing line, he turned Liszt’s 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody into a dance of sound and visio
  
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• Incomplete By Gonsalves Mpili and Isaac Ngassa

  13-01-2016 21:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In wine there’s truth,
  She’s wine that makes my heart drunk,
  That bottle imprisoned her,
  Took an opener to unleash the wine,
  Wine changed the air to colour red,
  Then I was stuck and my heart found faint,
  Even sipping was difficult,
  How can I sway this fair wine? Should I drink and dine,
  Or should I cry and smile,
  I wish I could begin in the vine,
  Still wine changed in the name of time,
  This wine that conquered my heart,
  This wine that resisted my lips,
  This wine that poisoned my bloo
  
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• Tattoed Gift by Gonsalves Mpili

  13-01-2016 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Whoever has it doesn’t know,
  Tea without sugar is tasteless,
  Food without salt, the chef is careless,
  My twisted mind won’t move the queen in chess,
  Because the king won’t bother to guess,
  Where do I belong, can’t decide, I’m a mess,
  All of a sudden I saw a hill,
  I stood upon it, the hill took me further,
  The hill was my escape from prison
  An escape from a highly detained prison of stupidity,
  The hill made me a poet,
  I’m highly wanted and searched by prison of
  
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• Dallas Museum of Art Plans Margaret Lee Exhibition in Hong Kong

  13-01-2016 20:22 via artnews.com
  To mark the 35th anniversary of of its “Concentrations” series, which focuses on emerging and underrepresented artists, the Dallas Museum of Art announced today that it plans to host its first international edition of the series, with artist and dealer Margaret Lee in Hong Kong.“Concentrations … Read More
  
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• Suspected arson at Fontainebleau church

  13-01-2016 20:12
  
  A fire at the Church of Saint-Louis in Fontainebleau, France on Sunday 10 January was probably arson, authorities in the Seine-et-Marne region say. Fleur Pellerin, the minister of culture, issued a statement condemning “the destruction and disappearance of several religious objects and artistic furnishings, many of which were listed or inscribed as Historic Monuments”, our sister paper the Journal des Arts reports. No people were hurt in the fire.
  Among the 12 objects missing after
  
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• ‘Keith Edmier: Edison Impluvium’ at Bob Rauschenberg Gallery

  13-01-2016 18:37 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Alejandro Aravena, Director of 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, Wins the Pritzker Prize

  13-01-2016 18:36 via artnews.com
  Earlier today, the Pritzker Architecture Prize named its 2016 winner: Alejandro Aravena. The Chile-based architect, who is directing this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, will receive $100,000 as part of winning the world’s most important architecture prize.In an essay for The … Read More
  
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• Massimo De Carlo Will Open a Third Location, in Hong Kong

  13-01-2016 18:33 via artnews.com
  In addition to its Milan and London spaces, Massimo De Carlo gallery will soon add a third location, in Hong Kong. To celebrate the gallery’s 30th anniversary, the new space is set to open on March 21 with a show … Read More
  
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• Lumiere London 2016: Light festival returns to dazzle the capital

  13-01-2016 18:20
  
  Thirty installations will light up the city from 14-17 January
  
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• Lumiere London 2016: Light festival returns to dazzle capital

  13-01-2016 18:20
  
  Thirty installations will light up the city from 14-17 January
  
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• Why Serial season 2 will only be released every other week from now

  13-01-2016 17:57
  
  The creators require more reporting time following an "unexpected development"
  
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• Serial season 2: Why the podcast will only release every other week from now

  13-01-2016 17:57
  
  The creators require more reporting time following an "unexpected development"
  
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• Museums are now part of Britain's pernicious north-south divide

  13-01-2016 17:57
  
  Closure threats to museums in the north of England represent a cultural crisis that will hide art treasures from view and distort our collective historyJoseph Wright of Derby’s painting A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery may look familiar to you. It often appears on book covers, regularly flashes up in TV documentaries, and with good reason. No painting captures the wonder of science better.Adults and children are gathered by candlelight around a brass model of the solar system, learnin
  
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• LEGO can now be used to make political statements, thanks to Ai Weiwei

  13-01-2016 17:44
  
  LEGO have adjusted their guidelines to accommodate the artist and human rights activist's request.
  
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• Hermès and Panthera take a walk on the wildcat side

  13-01-2016 16:13
  
  A philanthropic collaboration between the luxury house Hermès and the wildlife conservation organisation Panthera aims to revive the work of Robert Dallet, the late French wildlife artist and Hermès designer, to benefit wildcat research and conservation.
  The organisations jointly launched the Robert Dallet Initiative for Wild Cat Research this year, which helps fund Panthera’s efforts to protect wildcats and their landscapes. As part of the initiative, a travelling exhibitio
  
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• Egon Schiele Will Lead Christie’s Imp-Mod Evening Sale In February

  13-01-2016 16:05 via artnews.com
  Christie’s next Impressionist and modern evening sale will be held February 2 in London. Highlights include Marc Chagall’s Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel, estimated at £4.8 million–£6.8 million ($6.9 million–$9.8 million); a Pablo Picasso still life from 1937, “painted … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Sustainable Shadow Appropriation Edition

  13-01-2016 14:40 via artnews.com
  SUSTAINABLE SHADOW APPROPRIATION A Los Angeles artist, Ana Prvacki, is selling shadows of famous sculptures by artists such as Bourgeois, Koons, and Brancusi at a small percentage of the actual (enormous) price in a “sustainable” form of appropriation art. [The … Read More
  
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• Dubai turns to photography in bid to become UAE’s premier arts hub

  13-01-2016 13:14
  
  Dubai’s ongoing quest to develop into a leading arts hub gathers pace with the launch of a major photography exhibition in the emirate this spring (16-19 March). The Dubai Photo Exhibition, which will be held in a purpose-built “temporary museum”, will include hundreds of images, says an event spokesman.“For the inaugural edition in 2016, Dubai Photo Exhibition will present a showcase of museum quality international works, which will be held in the Dubai Design District
  
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• Go figure: waterfall of numbers to cascade down Hong Kong skyscraper

  13-01-2016 12:47
  
  The annual light installation projected across the jaw-dropping International Commerce Centre (ICC) building in Hong Kong’s harbour is a high point in the city’s art calendar. Last year, the Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei bagged the Art Basel commission, stopping city dwellers in their tracks with his Same Old, Brand New work, which included icons from 1980s video games such as Pac Man. This year, the baton (or light sabre) passes to the Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima who will p
  
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• Interview with Amanda Earl

  13-01-2016 11:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Amanda Earl is a poet and publisher from Ottawa. And it’s pretty hard to narrow down her accomplishments to some pesky short list of obvious facts. She is the managing editor of Bywords.ca, and self-described “fallen angel” of AngelHousePress. But there’s more than meets the eye. She’s got some edgy stuff, she’s got some heady stuff, she’s got some mental stuff. Recall your favourite Byron quote here. And you need to check it out yourself – &r
  
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• Curator of Orientalist Paintings, Doha Museum

  13-01-2016 10:42
  Our client in Qatar is seeking a Curator of Orientalist Paintings for a new museum in Doha dedicated to Orientalist art. The candidate will create and promote exhibitions based on Orientalism, develop and manage the museum’s collections, and support the museum’s overall mission. S/he will have knowledge of collections management, exhibition development, excellent writing and communication skills, and an established network of contacts in educational and cultural arts organisatio
  
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• Local councils resist temptation to cash-in on their art—for the time being

  13-01-2016 07:01
  
  Cuts in public funding to local museums across England, many of them run by local councils, combined with a new incentive to sell council assets has increased fears that more works of art and antiquities in public collections could be sold. A study by the UK Museums Association (MA) reveals that around 11% of the 115 respondents to its 2015 survey said they are considering “financially-motivated disposals” this year.
  Fine art and antiquities are most at risk. “The more valuabl
  
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• Los Angeles artist sells shadows of sculptures by Koons and Brancusi at a sliver of the price

  13-01-2016 03:51
  
  If all art is theft, Ana Prvacki’s Stealing Shadows is a crime on multiple counts. For the series, which runs 16 January to 3 February at 1301PE, the Yugoslavia-born, Los Angeles-based artist is displaying shadows of famous sculptures—minus the works themselves—on gallery walls and floors as her own wry take on image production.The shadows, ranging fr om the instantly recognisable to the uncannily familiar, belong to Louise Bourgeois’s Spider, Constantin Brancusi’s
  
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