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• Why Do We Love Great First Sentences? (It’s A Recent Phenomenon)

  29-01-2016 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The beloved first sentence is the product of dramatic changes one hundred and fifty years into the novel’s history. There are ample studies of the rise of the novel, but the move that would become the novel’s calling card has virtually no critical history.”
  
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• Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra To Tour All 28 EU Member States

  29-01-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In each country, the Concertgebouw will perform one opening work side by side with a local youth orchestra, and members will give masterclasses and tuition to young musicians. Daniele Gatti will conduct the first concerts of the tour.”
  
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• How Cervantes Made His Characters Seem Real

  29-01-2016 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Underlying all his characters was his fascination with how different people might experience differently the same situation. … Where Tasso’s verses describe for Tasso and his readers the essence of war, Cervantes’ prose describes how his characters perceive and misperceive war. Tasso’s words paint heroes; Cervantes’ lines animate characters.”
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: London’s ICA celebrates 70th birthday with a family photo

  29-01-2016 22:00
  
  Today marks the 70th anniversary of when, on 30 January 1946, the illustrious trio of the art critic Herbert Read, the poet and Surrealist artist Roland Penrose and the Belgian gallerist E.L.T. Mesens called the first-ever meeting of The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). In attendance at 23 Brook Street were key figures from the post-war British art world, including the experimental filmmaker Peter Brunius, the leading patron Peter Watson, G.M. Hoellering, the manager of the Academy Cinema
  
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• Out-of-towners stay out-of-sight at Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair

  29-01-2016 22:00
  
  When Art Los Angeles Contemporary began seven years ago, the hope was that it would become a destination art fair, drawing collectors from both coasts. Judging from the scarcity of out-of-town guests at its Thursday VIP opening, that dream is just about gone.But the event that survives has its own charms: a small, manageable (no maps needed) affair that compensates for the city’s sprawl by bringing together some of LA’s best galleries along with some European and New York imports un
  
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• Jackie Chan’s bronzes draw critics and vandals to new Taipei museum

  29-01-2016 22:00
  
  A new branch of Taipei’s National Palace Museum in Chiayi, south Taiwan, has come under fire for its decision to show a group of bronze replicas donated by the Hong Kong action film superstar Jackie Chan. The government-funded museum, which has been in the works for more than 15 years, cost around NT$7.9bn ($250m).The sprawling compound, around two hours by train from Taiwan’s capital, drew more than 20,000 visitors in the two weeks following its soft opening on 28 December. The ins
  
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• Face time: Kelly Grovier on the reinvention of portraiture since 1989

  29-01-2016 22:00
  
  The following excerpt is adapted from Kelly Grovier's new book, Art Since 1989, out now from Thames and Hudson.In March 2010, a team of Spanish surgeons performed the first full transplant of a human face. A breakthrough in medical science, the procedure was nevertheless profoundly dislocating, not only for the patient who courageously underwent it following a tragic shooting accident, but also for the age in which it occurred. For the first time in human history, features that had once defined
  
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• Altamira caves raffle plan is ‘nonsense’, says Spain’s culture secretary

  29-01-2016 22:00
  
  A local government official’s controversial plan to auction off tickets to the Altamira caves—home to one of the world’s most important cycles of prehistoric rock art—has been dismissed as “nonsense” by José María Lassalle, Spain’s state secretary for culture, who labelled the proposal undemocratic.
  The Unesco World Heritage Site was closed in 2002, after scientists discovered mould on some of the wall paintings. Currently, five randomly c
  
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• Marianne Vitale at Venus, Los Angeles

  29-01-2016 21:46 via artnews.com
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• MoMA Reveals Recent Acquisitions: Josh Kline’s ‘Skittles,’ Harmony Korine’s ‘Spring Breakers,’ More

  29-01-2016 21:43 via artnews.com
  Over on MoMA’s website is a list of what the museum has acquired over the past fiscal year. While some of the major acquisitions have already been announced, like Richard Serra’s sculpture installation Equal (2015) and Kerry James Marshall’s painting Untitled (Club Scene) … Read More
  
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• Alice Walker And Colm Tóibín, Sittin’ Around And Talkin’

  29-01-2016 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At Chez Panisse, no less. They talk about where in their lives their novels The Color Purple and Brooklyn came from and what it was like to see them made into movies.
  
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• Koenig & Clinton Now Reps Maria Hassabi, Albert Herter, Miljohn Ruperto and Ulrik Heltoft

  29-01-2016 21:19 via artnews.com
  Maria Hassabi, Albert Herter, as well as collaborators Miljohn Ruperto & Ulrik Heltoft are now represented by Koenig & Clinton in New York. The Chelsea gallery made the announcement today.Herter, an interdisciplinary artist focusing on video installation and performance, is scheduled … Read More
  
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• ‘Op Is Out-of-Town Art’: Thomas B. Hess on MoMA’s Show ‘The Responsive Eye,’ in 1965

  29-01-2016 21:11 via artnews.com
  This February marks the 50th anniversary of MoMA’s 1965 show “The Responsive Eye,” the exhibition that formalized Op art as a movement, albeit a short-lived one. Curated by William Seitz, the show caused a media frenzy—mainstream publications covered the show’s … Read More
  
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• I’m Female, Gay And Older, And You Want To Kick Me Out Of Oscar Voting?

  29-01-2016 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I happen to be female and I’m also gay, another underrepresented minority, and yet, because I haven’t been hired on a film in the last 10 years, I am to be booted into the “emeritus” status and replaced by younger members who are being asked to join in order to help you deal with a publicity nightmare.”
  
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• Habitat: Alex Dodge

  29-01-2016 21:01 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Alex Dodge; East Williamsburg, New York. Alex Dodge‘s work explores the relationship between humans and technology, and his studio is, fittingly, filled with both analog and digital tools—3-D scanners and … Read More
  
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• Russian protest artist held in Moscow psychiatric hospital

  29-01-2016 20:36
  
  Pyotr Pavlensky, the Russian performance artist famous for nailing his scrotum to Moscow’s Red Square, has been transferred to Russia’s infamous psychiatric hospital, the Serbsky Center. Known in the Soviet era for incarcerating political dissidents and diagnosing them as insane, the Serbsky might host hearings in a criminal trial against Pavlensky, who was arrested in November 2015 for setting fire to the main door of the former KGB building on Moscow’s Lubyanka Square, start
  
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• Take That, Borat! And Putin! Kazakhstan Creates Its Own ‘Game Of Thrones’

  29-01-2016 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Spurred by a remark from the Russian president that “the Kazakhs had never had statehood” as well as ongoing chagrin that their nation is best known to much of the world for a fictional, dysfunctional journalist in a mankini, the country’s film industry is producing a lavish 10-part miniseries about the founding, amid the collapse of the Golden Horde, of the Kazakh Khanate in 1465.
  
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• Red Horse: Native American drawings shed new light on Battle of Little Bighorn

  29-01-2016 19:52
  
  The myth of Custer’s glorious last stand is debunked by a new exhibition of drawings by the Native American artist and warrior made five years laterThe concept of manifest destiny began to show cracks the day Lt Col George A Custer met his end at Little Bighorn, outnumbered by Lakota Sioux and other warriors by an estimated 10 to one. Like all self-deluding notions, both he and it were bound to fail, and did so on an operatic scale. Walt Whitman wrote of Custer’s tawny flowing hair i
  
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• Report: Arts Industries Contributed £5.4 billion To UK Economy In 2014

  29-01-2016 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the report also shows that the creative industries as a whole grew at almost twice the rate of the wider economy last year.”
  
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• The Fantasy Coffins Of Ghana

  29-01-2016 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over the past 50 years, abebuu adekai – “proverb boxes,” fantastical caskets hand-carved from wood – “have become one of Ghana’s most unique cultural exports. The curious tradition of burying people in coffins shaped like everything from lobsters to busty women is primarily practiced in Accra and has spawned over 10 workshops in the capital city.”
  
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• All Lit Up Again: 99¢ Plus Presents ‘The Lamp Show’

  29-01-2016 19:02 via artnews.com
  Tonight, the Bushwick gallery 99¢ Plus opens “The Lamp Show,” a group exhibition wherein over 30 artists take a stab at creating some sort of light-producing object. Within those parameters, the show is very open-ended.“The range of work is huge,” … Read More
  
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• Tap – Decline Of A Great American Dance Form

  29-01-2016 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tap dance today is as marginal to popular culture in America as it was in 1960. Why has so delightful and exhilarating a dance style as tap been so resistant to revival?
  
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• Experimental Theatremakers, Think Carefully Before You Take That Mainstream Gig

  29-01-2016 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lyn Gardner: “In a tight funding climate, it’s not surprising that independent theatre-makers are attracted to the opportunities and financial support that the mainstream can offer. But those opportunities sometimes come at a price … Sometimes it leads to a leeching of the very things that made an artist’s work most distinctive in the first place.”
  
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• Andy Warhol may be in heaven but his art has a hellish darkness

  29-01-2016 17:31
  
  A new Norman Rosenthal-curated exhibition at the Ashmolean is a haunting collection of the artist’s work across a range of techniques and subjectsLooking at Andy Warhol’s painting of a bright pink penis caressed by deep black shadows from his series Torsos/Sex Parts, veteran curator Norman Rosenthal becomes nostalgic. When Rosenthal used to visit Warhol’s studio in the 1980s, he remembers, the artist offered to portray him naked. Sadly, he was not willing to remove his clothes.
  
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• How On Earth Is Robert Falls Putting Roberto Bolaño’s ‘2666’ On Stage?

  29-01-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It would take 45 minutes just to explain what the novel is about,” said the director of Chicago’s Goodman Theater. “I became weirdly obsessed with this novel years ago, and I still don’t quite know why. The process of staging it is part of trying to figure out what it is I personally respond to. I still don’t quite know.”
  
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• Warhol goes unseen but life's a beach for Martin Parr – the week in art

  29-01-2016 17:23
  
  The pop master shows his sly side, Calder prizewinners display poise, and the great British photographer heads on holiday – all in your weekly art dispatchAndy Warhol
  Flowers, faces, films and Brillo boxes galore as the man who invented contemporary celebrity comes to Oxford. Warhol is always a surprise. His art is both funny and serious, his poise inimitable and he has a sly way of making you think and feel new things.
  • Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 4 February-15 May.Continue reading...
  
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• New programme aims to train future leaders of artist foundations

  29-01-2016 17:15
  
  Artist-endowed foundations have seen the value of their assets double over the past five years, according to the Aspen Institute Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative (AEFI). Until recently, however, leaders in this rapidly growing field have had to learn on the job, often making rookie mistakes along the way. A new programme launched by AEFI aims to fix this problem.
  The first-annual seminar for new artist-endowed foundation leaders, to be held in New York in June, aims to train the future dir
  
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• Dudamel And His Kids To Play The SuperBowl

  29-01-2016 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Could anything be more natural than Dudamel and YOLA at the Super Bowl? The inspiring youth orchestra, which Dudamel initiated in 2009 when he assumed his post with the L.A. Phil, is composed of mainly African American, Asian and Latino inner city kids. And after seven years of instruction and rigorous practice, they now represent the best of who we are as a society and of our future.”
  
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• Art Gallery Of Ontario Picks A New Director

  29-01-2016 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Stephan Jost is the director of the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA), an institution that, while much smaller in scope and ambition than the AGO, has enjoyed significant growth and stabilized finances under his leadership over the past five years.”
  
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• Senior Visual Arts Specialist at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

  29-01-2016 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage seeks a candidate with deep and broad expertise in contemporary visual art, including knowledge of performance practice that grows out of visual art and other hybrid forms. The Center is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary regional grantmaker as well as a hub for knowledge sharing on issues of cultural practice.
  This is an ideal position for a clear, and intellectually flexible thinker and communicator who understands the need for discretion, has good or
  
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• The Massive, And Strange, New Cultural Center That Was The Kirchners’ Parting Gift To Argentina

  29-01-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Housed in the handsome (and enormous) old Buenos Aires central post office, with up to 50 performance spaces, a full modern art museum, a brand-new 1,800-seat concert hall called “the Blue Whale” and resting on concrete pillars, no signs, and way too many staffers, the Centro Cultural Kirchner has divided opinion as sharply as the couple themselves did.
  
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• Toy story 2: this time it's artistic

  29-01-2016 16:15
  
  His creatures have become a US brand – now he's hit Yorkshire. Hettie Judah meets KAWS
  
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• Harmony Korine: From 'Spring Breakers' to psychedelia

  29-01-2016 16:02
  
  The American film director has turned his hand to painting psychedelic artworks
  
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• Ten questions all gallerists should be asking themselves now

  29-01-2016 16:00
  
  Thinking about galleries—individually and as an art-world sector—is a constant inside Art Basel. The organisation was founded by a handful of Basel-based dealers and remains very much driven by gallerists. Those who sit on our selection committees play a pivotal role for the fairs. We also strive to stay in close contact with the 500-plus galleries around the world that do our shows, hoping to serve them by gauging their present challenges and working towards their futures.
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• Marvin Lipofsky, Who Raised Blown Glass To High Art, Dead At 77

  29-01-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He was in the first class of American art students to study glassblowing, and he went on to start programs at U.Cal. Berkeley and the California College of Arts. “In his own practice, he worked glass into small-scale biomorphic shapes with a dazzling array of surface textures produced by cutting, grinding, sandblasting, acid-washing or flocking.”
  
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• After stint in the doldrums, India Art Fair shows signs of picking up

  29-01-2016 16:00
  
  The India Art Fair has struggled in recent years as international A-list contemporary galleries have dropped away, citing everything from bureaucratic import hurdles, to a crippling lack of wifi derailing follow-up efforts on potential sales. But participating galleries say that the quality of the fair has improved this year and that leading curators and patron groups from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Asian Art, have all been in
  
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• Can A Big Government Push Bring The Nobel Prize In Literature To South Korea?

  29-01-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It irks the South Korean establishment that a nation as large and wealthy as theirs has won only one Nobel (the 2000 Peace Prize, to President Kim Dae-jung). So a huge effort is being made to translate and distribute the country’s literature to the rest of the world (including the Nobel committee). even though Koreans themselves aren’t big lit readers. (And there’s only one clear candidate.)
  
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• Nina Diefenbach Named Deputy Director for Advancement at the Barnes Foundation

  29-01-2016 15:29 via artnews.com
  Thom Collins, the executive director and president of the Barnes Foundation, announced today that Nina McNeely Diefenbach has been named deputy director for advancement. Diefenbach comes to the Barnes after 34 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she served as vice … Read More
  
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• Matisse in All His Glory: New Tome Chronicles the Artist’s Work at the Barnes Foundation

  29-01-2016 15:17 via artnews.com
  It’s easy to fall in love with a painting by Henri Matisse. It’s more difficult to explain what makes a Matisse great. The best and brightest have tried. Scores of scholars, curators, and critics have published copiously illustrated books and … Read More
  
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• How Five American Indian Dancers Transformed Ballet In The 20th Century

  29-01-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Yvonne Chouteau, one of the ‘Five Moons,’ as they were anointed, died this past Sunday at the age of 86. Along with Moscelyne Larkin (Shawnee, 1925–2012), Rosella Hightower (Choctaw, 1920–2008), Marjorie Tallchief (Osage, b. 1926), and, most famously, Maria Tallchief (Osage, 1925–2013), she rose in the ranks of dance when ballet was still not widely appreciated in this country.”
  
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• Morning Links: Pyotr Pavlensky Edition

  29-01-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
  FROM PRISON TO PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALPyotr Pavlensky, the artist who recently lit the Lubyanka Building in Moscow on fire, has been transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital for examination. According to the New York Times, the hospital is “notorious for giving insanity … Read More
  
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• Abolish The (So White) Oscars, Says Danny Glover. Just Let Them Fade Into Irrelevance, Says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Who Nails The Real Problem.

  29-01-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Andrew O’Hehir: “So what we’re talking about here … is not so much a failure of representation as a failure of perception and vision and imagination. By invoking [Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man], Abdul-Jabbar suggests that Oscar voters literally cannot see certain kinds of non-white performers and certain kinds of films.”
  
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• Mattel Introduces ‘Curvy’ Barbie – And Little Girls’ Reactions Show Why We Need One

  29-01-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Hello, I’m a fat person, fat, fat, fat.’ A 6-year-old girl giving voice for the first time to curvy Barbie sings in a testing room at Mattel’s headquarters. Her playmates erupt in laughter. When an adult comes into the room and asks her if she sees a difference between the dolls’ bodies, she modifies her language. ‘This one’s a little chubbier,’ she says.”
  
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• Talking to Christo About His Floating Piers

  29-01-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The piers will connect the mainland to two islands in [northern Italy’s Lake Iseo]: Monte Isola, which Christo said was the tallest lake island in Italy, and the small, private Isola di San Paolo. The waters surrounding them are 300 feet deep; the 50-foot-wide piers, made of some 200,000 polyethylene cubes wrapped in yellow fabric, will barely rise above the surface.”
  
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• Advertising Sales Executive

  29-01-2016 14:22
  Advertising Sales Executive We are looking for someone who will be able to support the work of the UK sales team across our print and digital offerings and also support our sales efforts into our network titles. This person will want to commit to developing himself or herself in the role of advertising sales executive, with a view to becoming a key member of the global team going forward.This person should have knowledge or interest in the art world, and critically want to spend time exploring i
  
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• Netflix Banned By Indonesia’s State Telecom

  29-01-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “State-owned telecommunications and internet provider Telekomunikasi Indonesia has blocked Netflix from all of its platforms … because of a permit issue and its unfiltered contents.”
  
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• A Danger To ‘Moral Values And National Security’: Kenya’s Film Censor On Netflix

  29-01-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The chairman of the Kenya Film Classification Board cited the threat of terrorism alongside the usual sex, drugs and bad words as reasons that his body should be able to regulate Netflix. But the country’s infotech minister says the Board does not have that power.
  
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• Fabio Luisi Is Next Music Director Of Florence’s Opera House

  29-01-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Genoa-born conductor “has been named as the new music director designate of Florence’s Opera di Firenze and its annual spring festival, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in what appears to be something of a shakeup at the Tuscan company. The position of music director is a new one within Opera di Firenze, and an office that was reportedly created especially for Luisi.”
  
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• Tennis star Milos Raonic is Ai Weiwei's biggest fan

  29-01-2016 13:43
  
  Ai Weiwei could be forgiven for feeling glum after cancelling two exhibitions in Denmark in protest against the country's controversial new asylum-seeker law, but there was better news in Australia, where a top tennis star revealed his love of the Chinese artist's work. Visiting Melbourne for the Australian Open, Milos Raonic relaxed by taking in an exhibition of works by Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei (until 24 April) at the National Gallery of Victoria. Describing an installation fr om Ai's Foreve
  
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• Violinist Leonidas Kavakos Wins Sonning Music Prize 2017

  29-01-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The award, worth DKK 600,000 (currently about $88,000),“is Denmark’s highest musical honour and has been given annually to an internationally recognised composer, instrumentalist, conductor or singer since 1959.”
  
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