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• Teaching An Old Met Some New, Or Rather Contemporary, Tricks

  31-01-2016 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Met Breuer’s debut marks a moment in which Campbell is tweaking one of America’s most venerable institutions so that it might more broadly fulfill its mission of being an encyclopedic museum — and to be generally more accessible to the public physically, digitally and in the stories about art it chooses to tell.”
  
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• Need a meet cute? Head to Lacma

  31-01-2016 23:03
  
  Calling all affable art lovers: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) wants you. On 27 January, the museum is launching a new membership programme, Lacma Local, which grants access to bi-weekly Saturday events that combine art and socialising. Possible activities include creating a work of art in small groups after visiting an exhibition or sitting in silence to watch the sun rise over Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass.
  “Almost all of the events will involve Locals, as we are c
  
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• Jhumpa Lahiri Says Writing In Italian Makes Her A ‘Tougher, Freer’ Writer

  31-01-2016 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A week after arriving, I open my diary to describe our misadventures and I do something strange, unexpected. I write my diary in Italian. I do it almost automatically, spontaneously. I do it because when I take the pen in my hand I no longer hear English in my brain. During this period when everything confuses me, everything unsettles me, I change the language I write in.”
  
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• The Two Newest Breakthrough Stars From This Year’s Sundance

  31-01-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘I’m not the boasting type,’ said Mr. Christmas, who lives in Los Angeles. ‘With all these people coming up to me to congratulate me, I started blushing a little bit. I was saying to myself, “Cut it out. Cut it out. Just play it cool.”‘”
  
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• Why is the art market like a carousel?

  31-01-2016 22:00
  
  Olav Velthuis, the art market author and academic, has found a nifty metaphor to accompany his latest research into how emerging art markets appear: a fairground carousel. Presenting his findings at the three-day Art Market from a Global Perspective conference that he organised in Amsterdam last week (28-30 January), Velthuis explained that, like the carousel, getting a market going is “a hard and tedious process that needs a lot of energy; but once it gets going it gets easier.”Loo
  
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• Ten questions gallerists should be asking themselves now

  31-01-2016 22:00
  
  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.I gave a
  
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• Tania Bruguera to take up residence at South London Gallery?

  31-01-2016 22:00
  
  The Cuban activist-artist Tania Bruguera plans to take up residence at the South London Gallery in Camberwell this year, as part of a collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The residency is one of several projects being developed in conjunction with the Guggenheim’s travelling exhibition Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, which is due to open at the London gallery—including its new space, a former fire station—on 13 June (until 1 Octobe
  
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• Mark Wallinger: ‘Facing up to myself’

  31-01-2016 22:00
  One of the most inventive and unpredictably nimble artists working in Britain today, Mark Wallinger’s art has ranged from meticulous paintings of racehorses to a presentation of the first public statue of Jesus Christ in England since the Reformation. While Wallinger’s early focus was on British traditions and values, from the 1990s onwards his interests have shifted to a wider questioning of power structures and notions of identity that has spanned photographs, videos and installat
  
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• Historic Koran show to open in US capital in time for election

  31-01-2016 22:00
  
  The Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries will hold the first major exhibition on the history of the Koran in the US, The Art Newspaper has learned, bringing together more than 50 sacred texts from the Arab Middle East, Persia, Turkey and North Africa.In something of a coup, the exhibition in Washington, DC, will feature major loans from the unparalleled collections of Istanbul’s Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, after an impasse on loans to other exhibitions in the US and Eur
  
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• Frontier fun at LA’s Paramount Ranch fair

  31-01-2016 22:00
  
  A frontier-town film set just north of Malibu that’s been used in some of Hollywood’s most famous Westerns, Paramount Ranch this weekend was the site of a young, scrappy, and wildly uneven art fair that drew big crowds. Started in 2014 by the artists Liz Craft and Pentti Munkonen and the dealers Robbie Fitzpatrick and Alex Freedman, the fair has fast gained a reputation for being dog-friendly, kid-friendly and artist-friendly, and this year waived the $10 admission fee for students.
  
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• Egyptophiles see the light at the Met’s Temple of Dendur

  31-01-2016 22:00
  
  An ancient Egpytian frieze will be shown in all its Technicolor glory as the Met’s the Temple of Dendur is illuminated in an experimental display. Color the Temple: Scene 1, shown every weekend until 19 March, is the joint effort between the museum’s Egyptian art scholars and its MediaLab, a team that works with digital technology to enhance the visitor’s experience. The colour projection will light up a ritual scene carved onto the sandstone of the temple. depicting the Roman
  
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• Denmark Dancers Fight (Using Ballet, Of Course) To Change Country’s Perception Of Refugees

  31-01-2016 21:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s very important, especially in Denmark, where a lot of people are afraid of asylum seekers and refugees. I think it’s very important to see that they are human beings and they have all kind of skills and qualifications.”
  
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• Opera Has To Deal With Issues Around Race, Gender, And Orientation – But How?

  31-01-2016 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Opera is a complex, historic art form, with its own arcane formal language. Rather than think of it as entertainment, it makes more sense to conceive of it as a vast archive of emotional, historical, social and theatrical data. Opera allows us to enter into, understand and actually feel emotions that are culturally and historically extremely distant from our own time and sensibility.”
  
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• Tulsa Artist Fellowship to offer 30 new fellowships and more than $1 million for second cohort

  31-01-2016 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Tulsa Artist Fellowship (TAF) is now accepting applications for 2017. Offering fellowships in two categories, Writing & Visual Arts, artists are provided with free housing and a $20,000 stipend. Applications due March 4.
  The Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a program established by the George Kaiser Family Foundation to enhance the local art scene by retaining and recruiting artists to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Entering its second year, the TAF is expanding to include writers. With the inaugural class
  
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• New York’s Attorney General (*Finally*) Goes After Shady Ticketing Practices By The Biggest Firms Out There

  31-01-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Ticketing is a fixed game,’ Mr. Schneiderman said in a statement. ‘My office will continue to crack down on those who break our laws, prey on ordinary consumers and deny New Yorkers affordable access to the concerts and sporting events they love. This investigation is just the beginning of our efforts.'”
  
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• Tudor stained glass portrait of young Henry VIII lovingly restored

  31-01-2016 19:35
  
  The Vyne in Hampshire – a National Trust mansion – houses the window, which was concealed in a fish pond during civil warIn the spectacular Tudor stained glass windows now being re-installed at a National Trust mansion in Hampshire, a slim and beardless young Henry VIII kneels meekly in prayer near his beloved wife Catherine of Aragon and his sister Margaret. The artists who painted the beautiful little white dogs, symbols of fidelity, curled up sleeping near the two women, could nev
  
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• Turkish Police Uncover Stolen Picasso In Art Sting

  31-01-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The operation targeted alleged art thieves attempting to sell the painting Woman Dressing Her Hair which was stolen from a collector in New York, Anatolia said.”
  
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• Dawn Walton on what needs to be done to fix British theatre's race problem

  31-01-2016 18:00
  
  It's not just the Oscars that has a diversity issue. Holly Williams asks artistic director Dawn Walton for an action plan
  
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• Pop artist KAWS' gigantic cartoon sculptures will be taking over the Yorkshire countryside

  31-01-2016 17:59
  
  The New Yorker, aka Brian Donnelly, is an artist, toymaker and brand - and he's now readying his first major UK show. Hettie Judah meets him
  
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• The Most Prolific Session Drummer Prepares For His Solo Career

  31-01-2016 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Back when he recorded his first tracks, studio musicians weren’t appreciated or even known by name outside the record industry. But Purdie was one of the foremost sidemen to advocate for his own visibility, and few others had his charisma or cockiness. Everywhere he goes, Purdie is called upon to play his defining creation, the Purdie Shuffle, a notoriously complex four-limb beat that he invented (and quickly named after himself) in his salad days.”
  
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• The Things We Learned At (And From) Sundance

  31-01-2016 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nick Jonas is a decent actor, Netflix & Amazon are big players, next year’s Oscars probably won’t be so white and much more.
  
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• Louvre inks historic deal with Iran to cooperate on archaeological digs, exhibitions and exchanges

  31-01-2016 16:28
  
  The Louvre signed an historical agreement with Iran on Thursday, 28 January, that clears the way for renewed cultural and scientific cooperation with France. The deal, which has not yet been publicly announced, came during a state visit to France by the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that was otherwise dominated by economic talks. Vice President Masoud Soltanifar, who heads Iran’s cultural heritage and tourism organisation, visited the Louvre’s galleries on Thursday—although
  
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• We Want To Believe We’re ‘Natural,’ But All Humans Eat Seriously Artificial Food Every Day

  31-01-2016 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Canned and frozen fruits and vegetables in winter eliminated the scurvy that had plagued the northern United States. Iodized salt did away with the goiter belt of the Midwest. More nutritious, safer food contributed to a taller population that lived longer. Life expectancy increased from under 50 years in 1900 to around 75 at the end of the 20th century.”
  
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• SAG Awards Thumb Their Noses At The All-White Oscars, And Reward ‘Spotlight’ Too

  31-01-2016 14:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘This is what happens when you have the SAG group — a group of very diverse people who understand the work that we all put in and that we all deserve the same opportunities,’ Queen Latifah told The Times backstage. ‘That’s about it. I feel very positive about this day.'”
  
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• Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, Royal Academy, review: A vibrant tonic for a bleak midwinter

  31-01-2016 13:48
  
  The Royal Academy's new exhibition showcases the 'garden' works of Monet, Renoir and Pissarro
  
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• Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse review – ravishing visions

  31-01-2016 09:00
  
  The Royal Academy is a profusion of summer borders where the art of gardening at times outgrows the art. And there is no question whose water lilies are the stars of the showRenoir painted Monet painting his garden in 1873. The two pictures hang next to each other at the start of this exhibition. With their abundance of red dahlias and creamy clouds, their blue-shuttered houses and soft summer light, each painting looks remarkably like the other – except that where Renoir portrays his frie
  
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• Police recover stolen Picasso painting in undercover sting in Istanbul

  31-01-2016 05:36
  
  Turkish police have recovered an original painting by the Spanish artist in an operation targeting alleged art thieves, state media saysTurkish police have recovered an original painting by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in an undercover operation in Istanbul, state-run Anatolia news agency reported on Saturday.
  The operation targeted alleged art thieves attempting to sell the painting Woman Dressing Her Hair which was stolen from a collector in New York, Anatolia said. Related: Wanted! FBI st
  
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• Leila Alaoui's The Moroccans shows a world beyond stereotypes

  31-01-2016 01:14
  
  The French-Moroccan photographer was killed during a terrorist attack in Burkina Faso's capital earlier this month
  
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• Poster power: 1970s anti-Vietnam war art by California students

  31-01-2016 00:00
  
  Following shootings of young Vietnam war protesters in 1970, University of California students produced hundreds of anti-war artworks• After Kent State: 1970s anti-war student art – in picturesKent State University, Ohio, May 1970. A group of unarmed students is protesting against the escalation of the Vietnam war into Cambodia. The national guard is called in; things get out of hand. Four students – two protesting, two just passing by – are killed, nine are wounded, one i
  
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