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• ‘Wayne Herpich’: Further Notice’ at Blackston, New York

  15-01-2016 23:41 via artnews.com
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• Christian Jankowski casts Homeland spy Nina Hoss as curator

  15-01-2016 23:00
  
  The opening of Christian Jankowski’s “retrospective” at Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin on Thursday was bursting with celebrities and absurdities alike: a karaoke room, photos of weightlifters trying to lift Warsaw’s historical monuments and even the choice of an actress, Nina Hoss, as the curator. (Hoss plays Astrid, the blond German spy, in the television thriller Homeland.) But, Hoss, whose photogenic face appears on all the publicity materials, “didn’t want
  
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• Truman Capote gave David Attie his big break - so why did the photographer never speak of their relationship?

  15-01-2016 22:36
  
  Decades after his father's death, Eli Attie finally dug through his father's archive to search for the truth
  
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• Photographer Dougie Wallace pays tribute to Mumbai's Premier Padminis

  15-01-2016 22:23
  
  The cherished Padmini was forced from the city for ever last year, following the introduction of legislation to reduce air pollution in the city
  
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• The topless cellist earns her due

  15-01-2016 22:00
  The American artist Charlotte Moorman, who achieved notoriety as the “topless cellist”, will have her first career retrospective in concurrent exhibitions organised in part by Northwestern University. The two shows include interviews, photographs, films, rare footage of the avant-garde festival she directed between 1963 and 1980 and the handwritten notes she exchanged with her husband from a New York holding cell after she was arrested on charges of indecent exposure.Yoko Ono has len
  
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• Five questions for the director of the Bardo Museum

  15-01-2016 22:00
  
  Ten months after an attack allegedly carried out by Isil killed 23 people at the Bardo Museum in Tunisia, the institution’s director, Moncef Ben Moussa, spoke to our sister paper Le Journal des Arts about the leading African museum’s efforts to rebuild.The Art Newspaper: How has daily life changed since the attack on 18 March?Moncef Ben Moussa: At first, we were afraid that [Isil] would achieve their aim, which is to gloss over our cultural heritage. But the wave of solidarity that
  
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• The Writing on the Wall: Glenn Ligon on Borrowing Text to Expose American Racism, in 2011

  15-01-2016 21:43 via artnews.com
  Below, in honor of Glenn Ligon’s show at Luhring Augustine’s Bushwick space, which opens today, is Hilarie M. Sheets’s profile of Ligon from ARTnews’s April 2011 issue. (A second show of Ligon’s work opens at the gallery’s Chelsea space in … Read More
  
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• Arts Council Collection announces 70th anniversary commissions

  15-01-2016 19:32
  
  Eight new works to go on display marking 70 years of ‘the spine and the backbone of national art’A solar eclipse mirror ball, giant cuddly toys and an experimental 16th-century costume drama filmed on the banks of the river Tamar will all feature in new commissions celebrating 70 years of one of the UK’s most important public art collections.The Arts Council collection was established in 1946 “to promote and enrich knowledge of modern and contemporary art” and is th
  
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• David Brooks Laments the Rise of ‘Gritty and More Confrontational’ Art in Column

  15-01-2016 19:13 via artnews.com
  New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks once devoted a column to celebrating artist Dustin Yellin and the zany utopia he’s created in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Now Brooks is back to waxing poetic on the impact of art—his column in today’s … Read More
  
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• Artcurial charity auction cancelled after work showing Palestinian activist is pulled

  15-01-2016 18:47
  
  Artcurial has cancelled a charity auction amid claims of censorship by Israel. The Paris-based auction house has announced that the sale, Artists on the Front Page, will no longer go ahead on 27 January, “by mutual agreement” with the organisers, the French newspaper Libération and press freedom advocacy group Reporters Sans Frontières. The newspaper says it ended the partnership “in the name of freedom of expression” after Artcurial bowed to pressure fr om
  
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• David Bowie: How I exposed the pop star's fake artist

  15-01-2016 18:42
  
  Bowie helped create a fictitious Abstract Expressionist and convince the art world he was real – until David Lister, unmasked the deception
  
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• London’s emerging galleries host exhibitors from abroad

  15-01-2016 18:31
  
  Galleries are doing it for themselves this year. Eight of London’s best-known emerging galleries are hosting exhibitions by 16 international counterparts for the inaugural edition of Condo (16 January-13 February). The event is an alternative way for galleries to exhibit abroad, says the director of London’s Carlos/Ishikawa gallery, Vanessa Carlos, who is behind the project.
  The idea arose after a conversation at last year’s Liste art fair in Basel about hosting a small fair i
  
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• Annie Leibowitz, Angela Merkel and a new Tate Modern chief – the week in art

  15-01-2016 18:11
  
  The American photographer only has eyes for the German chancellor, the Pritzker architecture prize goes to Chile, and Frances Morris is to take over London’s art powerhouse – all in your weekly art dispatchFrancis Towne
  Towne’s watercolours of Rome done in 1781 are little known treasures of the British Museum. He left his immaculate depictions of Rome’s ruins to the Museum in 1816 at the time when the Elgin Marbles were intensifying interest in classical archaeology. Now,
  
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• Annie Leibovitz, Angela Merkel and a new Tate Modern chief – the week in art

  15-01-2016 18:11
  
  The American photographer only has eyes for the German chancellor, the Pritzker architecture prize goes to Chile, and Frances Morris is to take over London’s art powerhouse – all in your weekly art dispatch Francis Towne
  Towne’s watercolours of Rome done in 1781 are little known treasures of the British Museum. He left his immaculate depictions of Rome’s ruins to the Museum in 1816 at the time when the Elgin Marbles were intensifying interest in classical archaeology. Now
  
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• Frances Morris Named Director of Tate Modern

  15-01-2016 16:56 via artnews.com
  Tate Modern announced today that Frances Morris will be the London museum’s new director. Chris Dercon, the Tate Modern’s director of five years, will leave the museum later this year.Morris first joined the Tate as a curator in 1987. From … Read More
  
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• Frances Morris to become new Tate Modern chief

  15-01-2016 16:14
  
  Veteran curator who has been with Tate galleries since 1987 will become first Briton to head successful gallery that showcases contemporary artists A curator who has been at Tate Modern since it opened in 2000 is to become both the first woman and the first Briton to helm the gallery when she takes up the role of director later this year.It was announced on Friday that Frances Morris, Tate Modern’s first head of displays, will replace Chris Dercon, who leaves this year to take charge of Be
  
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• Coder / System Administrator

  15-01-2016 15:34
  The Art Newspaper currently has a vacancy  for a talented technical system administrator to join our digital dept. We are looking for a  professional, passionate about technology, to maintain and develop the current infrastructure and perform the  migration to modern systems. Key responsibilities:- To provide technical support and answer support queries via phone, email and face to face- Maintaining the servers- To take ownership of user problems and be proactive when dealing
  
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• Morning Links: Gurlitt Trove Edition

  15-01-2016 14:57 via artnews.com
  GURLITT TROVEAfter almost two years and $2 million, a German task force has declared that they have discovered the provenance of only five works from the Gurlitt trove. All five had been looted by Nazis. [The New York Times]DISSIDENT ARTEdward Snowden’s … Read More
  
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• Tate Modern names Frances Morris as new director

  15-01-2016 13:55
  
  Frances Morris has been appointed the new director of Tate Modern, a few months before the gallery opens a £260m extension. She is currently the director responsible for Tate’s international collection. Morris, who studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, worked at the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol and joined Tate as a curator in 1987. She later became head of displays at Tate Modern and was jointly responsible for the inaugural presentation at its opening in 2000. The most recent
  
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• Simon Bolivar Orchestra/Dudamel, Royal Festival Hall, review: Band tear into opening of Petrushka with great enthusiasm

  15-01-2016 13:26
  
  For his first Southbank concert he'd chosen the two most electrifying symphonic works of the twentieth century
  
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• ORLAN: 'I walked a long way for women'

  15-01-2016 13:25
  
  The plastic surgery pioneer, who is suing Lady Gaga for plagiarism, has had nine operations in the name of art. She talks about beauty standards, the polluting impact of motherhood, and reading aloud under the knife Related: ORLAN's best photograph: a striptease in the style of Botticelli Just up from the Place de la République in Paris, where there are still candles, bouquets of flowers and a steel fence in front of the cafe hit during November’s terror attacks, there is a white do
  
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• Does a Francis Bacon smell like bacon? Lessons from the Tate Sensorium

  15-01-2016 13:12
  
  The team behind the multi-sensory installation share what they learned in bringing taste, touch, smell and sound to the museum Can taste, touch, smell and sound change the way we see art? Tate Sensorium set out to answer that question. The display, which we – creative agency Flying Object, along with many talented friends – developed after winning Tate’s IK Prize, partnered artworks with multi-sensory installations designed to get visitors thinking differently about the art. As
  
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• Flower power: the gardens that caused modern art to bloom

  15-01-2016 13:00
  
  Monet might be the most famous, but the list of artists who found inspiration in their gardens is long and prestigious. Sarah Crompton visits their private worlds of beautyIn Seebüll, in the northernmost German state of Schleswig-Holstein, not far from the Danish border, the wind ruffles the reeds of the low-lying marshes reclaimed from the sea. The trees bend on the horizon like crouching animals. A low autumnal sun gleams over barrel-shaped red barns. All is quiet. Related: The man who ma
  
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• Bath museum raises funds to buy Thomas Lawrence painting

  15-01-2016 13:00
  
  Holburne Museum’s appeal generated £450,000 in less than six months to acquire portrait by 18th-century artistA portrait of a handsome, pink-cheeked 18th-century teenager, Arthur Atherley, painted by Thomas Lawrence when he was only three years older than his 19-year-old subject, has been acquired by the Holburne Museum in Bath after an appeal raised £450,000 in less than six months, including more than £60,000 in public donations. Related: Wright there: Derby artist's so
  
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• A designer before Die Hard—Alan Rickman’s time at the Royal College of Art

  15-01-2016 11:56
  
  The British actor Alan Rickman, who sadly died earlier this week, will stay etched in our memories as the scheming Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films. But Rickman did not start out as an actor, having attended Chelsea Art School followed by the Royal College of Art in London in the late 1960s where he was a postgraduate design student. The design blog, It’s Nice That, has uncovered two issues of the RCA journ
  
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• Gerhard Richter painting being auctioned by Malekis could topple record

  15-01-2016 11:00
  
  Gerhard Richter may have expressed his shock when one of his squeegee paintings sold for £30.4m at Sotheby’s last February, making him the world’s most valuable living painter, but this record could be toppled again at the London auction house next month. Abstraktes Bild (1990) is the top lot in Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale on 10 February, and carries the same estimate as last year’s record-breaking picture: £14m-£20m.
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.14.16

  15-01-2016 10:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoiler Alert: Humans Have Bodies
  I began my professional life as an arts management educator just over 20 years ago, in Fall 1995. My focus, since then, has been rather specific: effective management of (mostly) professional (mostly) nonprofit organizations that … read more
  AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2016-01-14What orchestras could do for David Bowie
  Do classical music institutions think that Bowie’s death had anything to do with them? The Seattle Symphony, at least,
  
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• Street artists take to the courts after Kiesza and Katy Perry flaunt their work

  15-01-2016 09:46
  
  Two artists have launched lawsuits after pop stars displayed their work in a video and on a dressGraffiti has long been an easy option for musicians wanting to co-opt a little bit of urban verisimilitude – to literally acquire some street credibility. Now two graffiti artists are hitting back at what they view as the unlicensed appropriation of their work, and are proceeding with lawsuits against Kiesza, the singer of 2014’s No 1 hit Hideaway, and the designers of Katy Perry’s
  
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• Lumiere London transforms the city into a cathedral of light – in pictures

  15-01-2016 08:00
  
  It’s a case of bright lights, bigger city this weekend as London flicks the switch on the capital’s largest ever festival of light. Artworks at 30 different locations include a goldfish in a Grovenor Square phone-box, a 3D elephant’s behind on Regent Street and the front of Westminster Abbey, “bathed” in technicolour• Lumiere London runs every evening until 17 January from 6.30–10.30pmContinue reading...
  
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• Christiane Löhr, sculptor: 'I began to use what I had in my hands - the horse hair, straw and hay'

  15-01-2016 03:21
  
  Karen Wright meets the artist in her studio on a small semi-industrial site in the west of Cologne
  
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• Symbiosis: Dance And The Pianist

  15-01-2016 00:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Most accompanists fall into working with dancers by chance, as a way to make extra money. And the truth is, there isn’t much recognition of their skills outside of the profession.”
  
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• Tamara Rojo On Dancing Juliet

  15-01-2016 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The first time I danced Juliet I was 19 and it was perfect for me because I believed everything that she believed in. I believed that true love was more important than social convention and that it was worth fighting, and dying, for. That changes over the years. It becomes difficult to be Juliet when you’re not in a moment in your life when you believe this anymore.”
  
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