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• The Big New Philosophy In San Francisco Is – Applied Rationality

  19-01-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It has generated a rare level of interest among data-driven tech people and entrepreneurs who see personal development as just another optimization problem, if a uniquely central one. Yet, while [the] methods are unusual, its aspirational promise – that a better version of ourselves is within reach – is distinctly familiar.”
  
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• Milwaukee Sculpture Taken Down after Blogger Complained Is Re-Installed

  19-01-2016 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The sculpture by internationally recognized artist Jaume Plensa was taken down in November and altered after a New Jersey blogger accused the artist of embedding anti-Semitic slurs within what are supposed to be a random spill of steel letters.”
  
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• Chief Development Officer

  19-01-2016 22:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  From the Top seeks a confident and strategic leader to serve as Chief Development Officer (CDO) and help shape the future of the organization. The CDO is a key member of the senior leadership team and actively participates in planning for this mission-driven, creative, and dynamic organization. This person will have a command of proven fundraising techniques, an entrepreneurial spirit, and the vision to chart new paths to identify and attract new major donors.
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• ‘Michael Müller: Who’s Speaking?’ at KW, Berlin

  19-01-2016 22:15 via artnews.com
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• The Buck Stopped Here: a grand send-off for the polymath powerhouse Prof Lisa Jardine

  19-01-2016 22:00
  
  And so farewell to the magnificent Professor Lisa Jardine, whose intellectual brilliance, communicative skills and emotional empathy touched the lives of so many—as was amply confirmed at her packed Senate House send-off last night.  Academic heavyweights from the many arms of the University of London as well as universities from across Europe and the US lined up to eulogise the life and work of their former colleague, mentor and teacher. The audience reflected the formidable span of
  
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• Listen up! Gardner Museum plans sound art show

  19-01-2016 22:00
  
  A major show in the works at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston may not be much to look at, but listen closely. In 2017, the museum plans to present sound works by eight artists in the exhibition Sound and the City.
  The Taiwanese artist Lee Mingwei, the Luxembourg-based artist Su-Mei Tse and the US composer David Grubbs, among others, will create works for the Gardner’s galleries, gardens and a nearby train station.
  Ernst Karel, the manager of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Har
  
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• Goodbye-ee! Don’t cry-ee! Rehberger’s Dazzle Ship slips anchor

  19-01-2016 22:00
  Tobias Rehberger’s Dazzle Ship, the German artist’s contribution to a UK-wide series of commissions marking the Great War, may have slipped anchor on the Thames in central London. But there’s a silver lining—in Liverpool on the Mersey, Peter Blake’s Everybody Razzle Dazzle, the second of three ships transformed thanks to 14-18 Now, Tate Liverpool and the Liverpool Biennial, continues to sail colourfully until the end of 2016. And Ciara Phillips has been now been co-
  
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• Fresh look for Australian landscape that defined a nation

  19-01-2016 22:00
  
  The North Wind by the much-loved Australian artist Frederick McCubbin (1855-1917) has a fresh look and a new date, thanks to a restoration and conservation project undertaken by Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria, in collaboration with the Australian Synchrotron scientific research centre. This painting, as well as others by McCubbin of stoic pioneers braving the elements, were key in helping to define Australia’s national identity. The work went back on display at the gallery
  
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• Fischli and David Weiss's Manhattan mural has motivational manifesto

  19-01-2016 22:00
  
  In time for the opening of Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s Guggenheim retrospective in New York next month, the Public Art Fund is painting the Swiss art duo’s 50ft-tall motivational mural How to Work Better (1991) on the side of a Manhattan building on the corner of Houston and Mott streets (5 February-1 May). Sourced from instructions given to staff at a factory in Thailand, the mural lists ten directives for increasing productivity, including “Be Calm” and “Lear
  
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• A man of many—tiny—letters

  19-01-2016 21:42
  
  Ricky Jay, 67, is a polymath—magician, actor, author, collector—with a fondness for the language of earlier eras. He describes the legless and armless German entertainer Matthias Buchinger (1674-1739), whose work Jay has loaned for an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum (until 11 April), as “an overachieving phocomelic”, referring to the congenital disease that left him without limbs, and a “micro-indefatigabilist”.
  Standing at just 29 inches tall, Buchinge
  
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• Andrea Rosen Gallery Now Represents Hayden Dunham

  19-01-2016 18:45 via artnews.com
  Andrea Rosen Gallery announced today that it now represents artist Hayden Dunham. Dunham “creates entire circulatory and structural systems,” the gallery said dramatically in a press release, though she is perhaps best known for her alter-ego, QT, a quasi-fictional pop … Read More
  
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• An Old School Painter Adapts to a New World Order: Jack Whitten’s Fifty-Year Evolution

  19-01-2016 18:43 via artnews.com
  In 1974, a monolithic, fire-red painting by Jack Whitten debuted in the Whitney’s lobby gallery. Whitten made the painting, titled Sorcerer’s Apprentice, by laying the canvas on the floor, dragging a squeegee across it to mix colors, and letting the … Read More
  
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• An Old-School Painter Adapts to a New World Order: Jack Whitten’s 50-Year Evolution

  19-01-2016 18:43 via artnews.com
  In 1974, a monolithic, fire-red painting by Jack Whitten debuted in the Whitney’s lobby gallery. Whitten made the painting, titled Sorcerer’s Apprentice, by laying the canvas on the floor, dragging a squeegee across it to mix colors, and letting the … Read More
  
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• Dresden buys back Kirchner painting seized by Nazis as ‘degenerate art’

  19-01-2016 18:32
  
  Dresden’s State Art Collections have bought back an Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting, Strassenbild vor dem Friseurladen (street scene in front of the hair salon), confiscated by the Nazis as “degenerate art” fr om Dresden City Art Gallery nearly 80 years ago.Supported by an array of sponsors, Dresden purchased the painting for an undisclosed sum from Galerie Henze & Ketterer in Berne, Switzerland. The Swiss gallery had bought it for £916,500 in 2008 at a Christie&rsquo
  
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• Bristol museum sheds light on assisted dying

  19-01-2016 18:07
  
  Death hangs heavy this January and things are about to get darker still. The Bristol Museum & Art Gallery is plunging into the murky waters of assisted dying with its exhibition Death: Is it Your Right to Choose? (23 January-13 March). The installation re-creates a room from Dignitas, the Swiss organisation that helps people with severe and terminal illnesses to end their life. The room will be surrounded by displays on the topic of assisted dying, including personal testimonies.Laura Pye,
  
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• We do need a portrait of the Lord Speaker – she’s part of history’s rich canvas | Laura Jane Foley

  19-01-2016 18:00
  
  News of a £12,000 commission for a portrait of Baroness D’Souza has caused predictable outrage. But championing tradition and artists is money well spentIt has been revealed that the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art has approved a commission of a portrait of the current Lord Speaker, Baroness D’Souza, for £12,000. A spokesman said it was the committee’s policy “to commission portraits of all presiding officers of the House. The cost will be m
  
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• Miró’s Studio review – hallucinatory shop window for the surrealist's later works

  19-01-2016 17:51
  
  Mayoral gallery, London
  Recreation of the painter’s Mallorca studio is a tasteful homage, showing Miró moving beyond political dissent to something less cutting-edge – cosy evenFirst there was Euro Disney. Then there was Legoland. Now comes a new kind of European theme park for art lovers – a recreation in London of the great surrealist Joan Miró’s studio, complete with biomorphic dodgems, a political rollercoaster and mirrors that make you look like a line,
  
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• Palestinian Museum to open in May

  19-01-2016 15:36
  
  The Palestinian Museum, a new institution dedicated to the history and culture of Palestine over the past two centuries, is scheduled to open on 18 May. The launch exhibition programme at the museum, based in Birzeit, north of Jerusalem, includes an extensive outreach project involving Palestinians at home and abroad.The inaugural show, Never Part, will open on 7 October. “Based on more than three years of research, the exhibition’s starting point is a series of personal interviews
  
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• Great American Nudes artist Tom Wesselmann was no sexist, say the women in his life

  19-01-2016 15:16
  
  Warhol and Lichtenstein’s contemporary never saw himself as a pop artist, nor the nudes he painted alongside Coke bottles and bread as mere sex objects, insist his wife, daughter and former model as they meet at his old New York studioSex is the thing that made the late Tom Wesselmann great, sometimes hated, and an oddity among his pop art peers. Unlike Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg and co, the painter chose the nude as his enduring subject, charging his work with a sexuality as earnest
  
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• Sophie Taeuber-Arp: it's about time the radical dada star got a Google doodle

  19-01-2016 15:10
  
  Today’s Google doodle celebrates the birthday of the radical artist who brought joy to dada, when Switzerland was a revolutionary hotbed of cultureYou must remember the place where punk began. The most subversive, dissident and revolutionary centre of modern art. The planet Ziggy Stardust came from. That’s right – Switzerland. Today’s Google doodle celebrating the birthday of Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) is a nice plug for one of the most radical – but far from be
  
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• Morning Links: Exhibitionism at the Musée d’Orsay Edition

  19-01-2016 14:50 via artnews.com
  LIFE IMITATES ART On Saturday, a performance artist named Deborah de Robertis took off her clothes in front of Manet’s Olympia at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, in order to reenact the scene depicted in the painting. [BBC]MUSEUMSThe Gibbes Museum of Art … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Thoroughly Modern Met Edition

  19-01-2016 14:43 via artnews.com
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• South Korea tops global list for private art museums

  19-01-2016 14:11
  
  South Korea has the highest number of private art museums in the world, according to a new report. The country has 45 such institutions, with no fewer than 13 in Seoul, making the South Korean capital the world's top private museum city.
  The Private Art Museum Report, an international research project initiated by the art collector database Larry's List and Art Market Monitor of Artron, is one of the first systematic efforts to understand the rapid rise of private museums over the past decade.
  
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• Holburne Museum bags Thomas Lawrence's teenager sketch

  19-01-2016 13:26
  
  The Holburne Museum in Bath has acquired a preparatory oil sketch of a 19-year-old youth by the Bristol-born artist Thomas Lawrence, after raising the princely sum of £450,000—including £61,209 via a public appeal. The fetching unfinished sketch, made in 1791, depicts Arthur Atherley, the son of a banker who became the member of parliament for Southampton. The finished portrait is owned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. There are no works by Lawrence, who lived in
  
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• Zoe Poledouris – I Have Not Been To Paradise

  19-01-2016 13:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Uh-hmmm. Remember Paul Verhoeven’s seminal kinda anti-war kinda pro-militarism kinda whatever-you-want epic Starship Troopers? The one which combined going apeshit with batshit crazy surrounding. OK, so there was a prom scene. Where hero decides that he has nothing else to do but enlist and get hogtied on propaganda. You can hear a David Bowie song in the background. From the then-recent album OUTSIDE.
  It was covered by Zoe Poledouris, daughter of Basil Poledouris who did the score f
  
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• Richard DeDomenici: the artist who organised protests against himself

  19-01-2016 12:01
  
  He has built an igloo out of Kendal Mint Cake, reshot The Matrix and launched a crocheted currency. Now, Richard DeDomenici is organising a funeral procession to mark the death of social housing
  In 2012, Richard DeDomenici ran ahead of the Olympic torch. Wearing a white tracksuit and wraparound sunglasses, he jogged past the crowds carrying a gold-painted cardboard cone, waving as he went. As he ran through Colchester, onlookers whooped and cheered. Union flags fluttered. After a while, a women
  
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• More than a third of dealers in London Art Fair survey say rising rents pose biggest threat to UK market

  19-01-2016 10:58
  
  More than a third of dealers who took part in a survey by the London Art Fair say that rising rents and business rates are the biggest threat to the UK’s position at the forefront of the global art market. Of the 126 galleries exhibiting this year, 53 responded to the questionnaire about predictions for the art market in 2016, with 37% citing rents as the main problem.
  The survey, which was conducted on the eve of the opening of the fair on 20 January (until 24 January), is the latest to
  
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• Cut and paste and snap: the new collage photography – in pictures

  19-01-2016 10:20
  
  All is not what it seems in the work of these four American photographers, who draw on sculpture and painting and collage techniques to layer up their images before hitting click on the camera – see their work in London this month• New Builds is at the Josh Lilley Gallery from 22 January to 3 March Continue reading...
  
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• Sophie Taeuber-Arp: What you need to know about the artist and subject of today's Google Doodle

  19-01-2016 09:25
  
  She was one of the foremost figures of the rebellious Dada art movement, bridging the gap between fine and applied arts
  
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• Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Everything you should know about the artist and subject of today's Google Doodle

  19-01-2016 09:25
  
  She was one of the foremost figures of the rebellious Dada art movement, bridging the gap between fine and applied arts
  
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• Untitled(they have eyes that look like baubles)

  19-01-2016 01:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i have a bright light floating in my left eye. it obstructs my vision. i’m dizzy. i don’t care because no one cares about me. the doc tells me that if don’t tell the person i’m with  about my social disease they will get angry with me. when i asked him what if they don’t want to sleep with me he had nothing to say. what does he care? he’s not the one who isn’t having sex. is he telling me what to do with my private life? i don’t like anyone te
  
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