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• Fred Armisen: comic, musician, collector

  21-01-2016 23:55
  
  It was a match made in hipster heaven, it seems, when the comedian Fred Armisen met the LA artist Vanessa Prager on the set of his IFC television series Portlandia. Armisen recalled the encounter in Interview magazine, when Prager came along with her sister Alex, also an artist, for a photo shoot. “The thing that struck me was that your whole family was together—your mom was there—and you were very supportive of each other. It’s kind of rare to see that, so it gave me a
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Sustenance of many forms came under discussion at Lisson’s John Akomfrah dinner

  21-01-2016 22:00
  
  Spirits were high at the dinner to celebrate John Akomfrah’s debut show at Lisson Gallery, which the artist-filmmaker marked with three major new installations and a batch of beautiful C-type photographic stills. Lisson has paired the exhibition with an appropriately museum-quality group show devoted to drawing, guest-curated by the Drawing Room.
  As is so often the case with such an ambitious undertaking, adjustments were being made to these complex multi-screened works right up to the ve
  
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• Taubman collection was a gamble that did not pay off for Sotheby’s

  21-01-2016 22:00
  
  Sotheby's $515m guarantee to secure the collection of its former owner A. Alfred Taubman, along with other expenses, has resulted in a $12m loss for the company, president and chief executive Tad Smith said during its fourth quarter 2015 earnings call earlier today.The company’s net income for the quarter was $74m to $79m, around the same as last year’s ($74m). Still, the company expects to lose money in the fourth quarter, between $10m and $19m, in part due to “charges relate
  
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• Living memories of a dying medium: David D'Arcy on Walkers at the Museum of the Moving Image

  21-01-2016 22:00
  
  At the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York, there is a portrait of Dean Martin with his eyes and mouth removed by what look like cigarette burns. Self Portrait of You + Me, Dean Martin 01 (2007) by Douglas Gordon looks like a publicity still for a zombie movie.
   
  It might as well be one. The exhibition Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artefact takes its title fr om the television series The Walking Dead. The exhibition’s premise is that the images, stories and moun
  
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• Jack Shainman Gallery thinks inside the grid

  21-01-2016 22:00
  
  Of A Different Nature, a thematic group show of works by El Anatsui, Bernd and Hilla Becher and Maya Lin, is due to open at the Jack Shainman Gallery’s 20th Street Space in New York on 4 February. “We were really looking at artists working within this organic and unexpected grid,” explains the gallery’s senior director, Tamsen Greene.
  The US architect and artist Lin and the Ghanaian artist Anatsui “together were the jumping-off point” for the exhibition, Gree
  
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• Collectors and dealers still search for the undiscovered at New York's Outsider Art Fair

  21-01-2016 22:00
  
  While artists that were once considered part of a fringe culture have been embraced by major art dealers and auction houses, collectors still gravitate towards works that have an air of the undiscovered at the Outsider Art Fair in New York (21-24 January).
  The dissolving boundary between self-taught and mainstream art has become an “increasingly unfashionable topic”, said Massimiliano Gioni, the artistic director of the New Museum who included outsider artists in his exhibition for
  
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• Bonhams sale aims to redress gender inequality in the art world

  21-01-2016 22:00
  
  The highest price at auction for a work by the French sculptor Germaine Richier is £1.2m, compared with £91.6m for Alberto Giacometti, who studied alongside Richier in Émile-Antoine Bourdelle’s studio in the 1920s. Such disparity between artists of similar expertise is all too common in the art market, and something that Bonhams is hoping to redress next month by including more female artists in its post-war and contemporary sale.
  Of the 49 lots to be offered on 11 Febr
  
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• ‘Water From the Nile’ at lodos Gallery, Mexico City

  21-01-2016 19:55 via artnews.com
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• 303 Gallery Now Represents Marina Pinsky

  21-01-2016 19:52 via artnews.com
  New York’s 303 Gallery announced today that it now represents Marina Pinsky, the young Brussels-based photographer whose work is currently on view in the 2015 iteration of “New Photography” series, “Ocean of Images,” at the Museum of Modern Art. The … Read More
  
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• Pallid politician Clegg caught on canvas

  21-01-2016 19:12
  A portrait of the former deputy prime minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has been unveiled in the UK Parliament. Clegg praised the artist, Brendan Kelly, for capturing “such an unnervingly accurate portrayal”. The MP then added: “What was even more unnerving was that that when I first saw it and remarked how pale and tired I looked, my assistant pointed out that he had captured me perfectly.” Clegg served as deputy prime minister in David Cameron’s coal
  
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• Here Are the Details for Frieze New York 2016

  21-01-2016 18:22 via artnews.com
  Frieze New York just released the details for its 2016 edition, which will return to Randall’s Island for the fifth time May 5-8. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Frieze, and the first year with Victoria Siddall at the helm as … Read More
  
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• Christie’s to Offer Up James Bond Memorabilia at ‘Spectre – The Auction’

  21-01-2016 18:03 via artnews.com
  For the James Bond completist: next month, Christie’s will host “Spectre – The Auction,” a sale of 007-related wares, including a watch and a pair of sunglasses Daniel Craig wore in last year’s Bond installment Spectre, a laptop used by … Read More
  
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• Susan Talbott Joins The Fabric Workshop and Museum as Interim Director

  21-01-2016 17:26 via artnews.com
  The Fabric Workshop and Museum has named Susan Lubowsky Talbott, the former director and CEO of the Wadsworth Atheneum, its interim director for the next year. Talbott will join the museum as it prepares for two major projects: a spring … Read More
  
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• Anna Ray, artist: 'Textile should have a mystery about it'

  21-01-2016 17:14
  
  Karen Wright meets the artist in her studio in in Rickmansworth, a small Hertforshire commuter town
  
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• Freeman’s Poaches Timothy J. Malyk From Phillips

  21-01-2016 17:09 via artnews.com
  Freeman’s auction house has announced the appointment of Timothy J. Malyk as their Modern & Contemporary Art Department Head and Vice President, to be based out of New York. Malyk comes to Freeman’s from Phillips, where he spent the past … Read More
  
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• Freeman’s Hires Timothy J. Malyk As Head of Modern and Contemporary Art

  21-01-2016 17:09 via artnews.com
  Freeman’s auction house has announced the appointment of Timothy J. Malyk as their Modern & Contemporary Art Department Head and Vice President, to be based out of New York. Malyk was previously a senior member of the Contemporary Art Department at Phillips. During … Read More
  
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• Raphael Mazzucco: Fashion photographer swaps his camera for explosively colourful canvas

  21-01-2016 16:59
  
  Mazzucco's striking multi-media collection is being exhibited in London in February
  
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• Trustee

  21-01-2016 16:50
  The National Trust looks after special places for ever for everyone in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. From historic houses and gardens to spectacular coastline and countryside, we help provide the refreshment we all need in today’s fast moving world. With 4.5 million members and more than 60,000 volunteers, we are Europe’s largest conservation charity.We need outstanding Trustees with extensive experience of leadership in large organisations. To complement our existing Trustees
  
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• David Koch Resigns From the Board of the American Museum of Natural History

  21-01-2016 16:14 via artnews.com
  David H. Koch has resigned from the board of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after serving as a trustee for 23 years. Koch, an industrialist and noted arts patron (the Metropolitan Museum’s new plaza in New … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Freedom Shoes Edition

  21-01-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
  FREEDOM SHOESA 90-year-old Auschwitz survivor has donated her minuscule “freedom shoes,” which were given to her by a fellow prisoner, to the museum located where the old Nazi concentration camp used to stand. [Yahoo!]ORIGIN STORIESCambodian artist Svay Sareth, who learned … Read More
  
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• V&A curators unveil 3D-printed portrait of Chelsea Manning in Davos

  21-01-2016 12:10
  
  Curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London have co-organised an exhibition on design innovations, which is on display at Davos this week in the Swiss Alps. The show, This Time Tomorrow (20-23 January), coincides with the high-powered annual meeting attended by around 3,000 heads of government, business leaders, scientists and economists.
  The exhibition was developed in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, the non-profit foundation behind the Davos meeting. It explore
  
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• Contested legacy: echoes of the Easter Rising

  21-01-2016 08:30
  
  As a child, Sean O’Hagan thought the 1916 Easter Rising was ancient history. Then came the Troubles. As the centenary looms, he reflects on how this deeply symbolic moment has reverberated through Irish lives – including his ownWhen I was a boy growing up in Northern Ireland, I attended a Roman Catholic school run by Christian Brothers. I was taught the Irish language, but not Irish history. Looking back, that seems to sum up the paradoxical sense of belonging and yet not belonging t
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.20.16

  21-01-2016 07:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Playing For The Screens – Is Our Obsession With Video Changing The Live Arts Experience?
  One weekend last November, the biggest box-office at movie theatres throughout the UK wasn’t for the latest Hollywood blockbuster (the latest Hunger Games movie opened that Friday). It was for a live broadcast of  Kenneth Branagh’s production of  The Winter’s Tale which was streamed live to 520 theatres in the UK … read more
  AJBlog: Diacritical Published 2016-01-20Rep
  
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• Lords put pressure on UK government to sign Hague Convention this year

  21-01-2016 05:11
  
  Members of the House of Lords and leading cultural heritage experts are again calling on the government to ratify the Hague Convention seven months after it agreed to sign the international agreement. If parliament swiftly ratifies the treaty’s two protocols before any of the other five permanent members of the UN Security Council, the UK will also be in a position to set up a headquarters in London for the Blue Shield, the cultural equivalent of the Red Cross.
  During a debate in the Hous
  
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• “So You Think You Can Dance” Will Probably Get Another Season (But With Changes)

  21-01-2016 01:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Will the show take a page from the success of the expansion of Fox’s MasterChef with MasterChef Junior and switch to younger dancers?”
  
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• What Is Frank Gehry Really About?

  21-01-2016 00:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “From the beginning, he rebelled against the austerity of modernism, its pitiless Euclidean demands and its contempt for decoration. Even the chain-link fencing, in this view, was a gesture at classical embellishment, his version of the blind niches and capitals and other flourishes that make classical buildings interesting to look at, though they serve no structural purpose.”
  
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• Stiffed New York City Opera Ticketholders Will Finally Get Refunds

  21-01-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nearly 670 people had bought roughly $323,000 worth of tickets for performances that were canceled when City Opera went bankrupt in 2013” – and they’ll be getting their money back from NYCO Renaissance, the group that’s reviving the company.
  
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