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• Turin ♥ Guggenheim

  01-02-2016 22:00
  
  Why was Guggenheim bigwig Richard Armstrong in Turin last month, and why was he so keen to meet the city’s mayor, Piero Fassino? The Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported that the Guggenheim foundation’s director also dropped in on Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the director of the Castello di Rivoli contemporary art museum, and Maurizio Braccialarghe, the city’s cultural commissioner. Armstrong’s connection to Turin goes back to 2012, when he also met Fassino and Bracci
  
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• Paris photography biennial Photoquai cancelled

  01-02-2016 22:00
  
  The international photography biennial Photoquai in Paris, which presented work by emerging photographers from Asia, Africa and the Americas, has been cancelled ahead of its sixth edition. The Quai Branly Museum founded the event in 2007.
  The biennial aimed to “make contemporary photography from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, ignored or little-known in France by the wider public, more visible”, said Stéphane Martin, the museum’s president, at the inauguration o
  
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• Art in shopping malls: it’s all product after all

  01-02-2016 22:00
  
  Using art to sell luxury products, fr om smart hotels and real estate to handbags, is well established, but art is now increasingly being used to entice visitors into commercial malls—in Shanghai, Paris, Poznan in Poland, Beirut and even rural Oxfordshire in the British countryside.
  Certainly the most striking example is China’s K11 Art Mall, the brainchild of the young retail billionaire Adrian Cheng. This flashy mall opened in 2013 in Huaihai Lu, Shanghai’s central shopping
  
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• Tearful collector gives testimony at Knoedler trial

  01-02-2016 21:17
  
  The collector Eleanore De Sole gave her testimony, sometimes tearfully, as the first week of the Knoedler forgery trial closed on Friday 29 January, adding an emotional element to a case heavy on insider art knowledge and expert testimony. Eleanore and her husband Domenico sued the Knoedler Gallery, its former director Ann Freedman, and its owner, for selling them a painting purported to be by Rothko for $8.3m, which turned out to be a forgery. Her testimony continued in court today.
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• Spring/Break Art Show Announces Participants for 2016 Program

  01-02-2016 21:11 via artnews.com
  Armory Week’s annual Spring/Break Art Show has announced the full list of participants for this year’s program. The event will once again take place in the former postal offices of Skylight at Moynihan Station in New York from March 2 through … Read More
  
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• Christie’s Brooklyn storage does not have to pay $11.5m for art damaged in Superstorm Sandy, court decides

  01-02-2016 19:30
  
  Christie’s art storage unit does not have to pay more than $11.5m for art damaged by flooding at its Brooklyn facility during Superstorm Sandy in 2012, a New York state court decided on 21 January.
  The ruling covered two lawsuits brought by insurance companies to recoup costs paid or owed to their clients. In one, Axa Art Insurance sought $1.5m for damage to the collection owned by the Jacqueline Piatigorsky Revocable Trust. (Jacqueline, the widow of famed cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, died
  
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• Jane Corrigan at Feuer/Mesler

  01-02-2016 19:26 via artnews.com
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• Frieze Appoints Toby Kamps as Curator of Spotlight Section

  01-02-2016 18:56 via artnews.com
  Earlier today Frieze announced the appointment of Toby Kamps as the new curator of the fair’s Spotlight section, dedicated to solo presentations of work by avant-garde and under-appreciated artists from the 20th century. In his new role, Kamps will select … Read More
  
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• Art researchers uncover 'lost' Hieronymus Bosch – and sausage link

  01-02-2016 18:33
  
  ‘Typically Boschian’ monsters help identify forgotten painting, long thought to be by pupil of Dutch master and held in US museum’s storage for years Art historians have revealed that a forgotten painting stored for decades at a US museum is a work by the Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch.The surprise discovery comes as ’s-Hertogenbosch, the hometown of the artist whose nightmarish visions earned him the moniker “the devil’s painter”, marks the 500th anniver
  
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• Ai’s latest intervention: re-creating the tragic plight of Alan Kurdi

  01-02-2016 18:21
  
  The world’s most prominent artist-activist, Ai Weiwei, has once again drawn attention to the plight of refugees fleeing the Middle East, only two days after 39 migrants drowned trying to cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece. Last week, Ai lay on a beach in Lesbos, bringing to mind the drowned infant Alan Kurdi who was washed up on the shore near the Turkish town of Bodrum last September. The headline-hitting image of the Chinese artist, shown recently at the India Art Fair in New De
  
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• Here’s the Full Exhibitor List for the First Independent Brussels

  01-02-2016 17:36 via artnews.com
  Independent art fair has released its exhibitor list for its first-ever Brussels edition, which will feature more than 60 international galleries and nonprofit organizations from 30 cities. In a statement, founding executive director Laura Mitterrand said, “Independent is no longer … Read More
  
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• David Attenborough opens £1.5m gallery for socially-engaged art

  01-02-2016 17:36
  
  Dignitaries and journalists in Leicester gather in a white cube, the natural habitat of contemporary artists worldwide. But here they lie in wait for prey of a different kind, not to be found on the international circuit of fairs and biennials. Their quarry is the rarest of species, the British “national treasure”. Just three months shy of his 90th birthday, his white hair, animated facial expressions and soothing voice are unmistakable… He is Sir David Attenborough.
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• Danish police backtrack on banning artist's photos of naked, natural women

  01-02-2016 17:04
  
  'The freedom to express oneself through art in Denmark, is now more free than before.'
  
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• Tears, Shouting Matches, and a Slew of Expert Witnesses as Knoedler Trial Heads Into Week Two

  01-02-2016 17:02 via artnews.com
  Domenico and Eleanore De Sole, their art advisor James Kelly, and a number of expert witnesses, testified in U.S. District Court in Manhattan as the first week in the De Soles’ case against the now-defunct Knoedler Gallery came to a … Read More
  
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• Prince Charles’s paintings are notching up millions. That doesn’t make them any good | Jonathan Jones

  01-02-2016 16:36
  
  He grew up surrounded by art, and his work isn’t awful – just amateur. But the poor man has to do something with his timeThere was an emperor of China who spent so much time painting that he lost his throne. Let’s hope that never happens to our own Prince Charles. The Emperor Huizong, who died in 1135, was a gifted painter as well as a calligrapher and poet. He made a major contribution to the cultural golden age of the Song dynasty – but his fascination with beauty distr
  
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• F is for Fire: share your blazing artwork now

  01-02-2016 16:06
  
  A fire can be at the centre of an artwork; great billows of smoke expressing burning desires and explosive feelings. Director at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, Ian Dejardin, invites you to share your visions of fire now The all seeing I: your art on the theme of electronicThe A to Z of Readers’ Art: our new project for youNikolai Astrup (1880-1928) was the son of Christian Astrup, the Lutheran pastor of Alhus, a tiny community on the shores of beautiful Lake Jolster in western Norway. His ch
  
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• Morning Links: Louvre-Iran Deal Edition

  01-02-2016 14:58 via artnews.com
  WEST MEETS EASTThe Louvre has signed a deal with Iran for the purpose of “[planning] for exchanges of exhibitions, publications, scientific visits, and training sessions, as well as archeological digs” until 2019. The agreement also stipulates that the looting of artifacts … Read More
  
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• Kansas City museum's painting attributed to Hieronymus Bosch

  01-02-2016 14:49
  
  A newly attributed painting by Hieronymus Bosch has been identified in America, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. The Temptation of St Anthony, previously assumed to be by a pupil or follower, is now dated to 1500-10.
  The St Anthony panel had been acquired by the museum in 1935 and subjected to an unfortunate restoration in the 1960s-70s. A spokesperson for the Bosch Research and Conservation Project says that the image was “heavily retouched and overpainted&rdq
  
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• Magdalena Kozena/Rattle/et al, Wigmore Hall, classical review: Flawless performance from start to finish

  01-02-2016 13:04
  
  A fascinating evening, which absolutely requires a repeat
  
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• What’s Going Down At Condé Nast?

  01-02-2016 10:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Those who want things always to stay the same are not living in the real world,’ Ms. Wintour said in a recent interview at her office overlooking the Hudson River at Condé Nast’s new headquarters, One World Trade Center. ‘It’s like perfection. Doesn’t exist.'”
  
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• Pamuk’s Istanbul—seen through a new lens

  01-02-2016 10:19
  
  The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk's award-winning Istanbul-based institution inspired by his novel of the same name, has decamped (temporarily) to Somerset House in London (until 3 April). Thirteen vitrines stuffed with domestic knick-knacks mark different moments of Kemal Bey’s intense love affair with Füsun, his twice removed cousin, against a 1970s backdrop. But visitors to the show will also get a taste of Istanbul, and Pamuk’s museum, through a major new docum
  
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• Where Is The Literary Black Avant-Garde?

  01-02-2016 08:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Appropriation and hybridization are two of the hallmarks of Black art forms (think of sampling in hip-hop) which is also true of experimental art. How come Black art isn’t seen as synonymous with experimentation? And how come the opposite is so often true? Why are Black artists, along with other racial minorities, usually excluded from the so-called avant garde?”
  
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• A tour of North Korea's multimillion dollar museum – in Cambodia

  01-02-2016 08:00
  
  The £24m Angkor Panorama Museum is the impoverished country’s latest art export – but is anyone visiting it?North Korean tour guides lead visitors through the regime’s latest cultural showpiece, a grand new panorama museum reported to have cost $24m. The museum’s showpiece is a 120m long, 13m high, 360° mural painted by the country’s lauded Mansudae studio artists. Related: North Korean restaurants springing up around Asia to raise money for regimeContinue
  
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• The U.S. Art Industry Has Begun (Re)Invading Cuba

  01-02-2016 07:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At 331 Art Space in Havana, visitor traffic has gotten so heavy that it’s cutting into work hours. Adrian Fernandez, who shares the space with two other artists, said that in the past six months the studio has received guests from Facebook, Google, UPS, the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian. ‘At least we try to have the mornings free—then people come in the afternoon—but as we have more demand that has gotten harder,’ said the 31-year-old photographer.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 01.31.16

  01-02-2016 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Victoria Tchekovaya, Part 2
  In early December, Rifftides Moscow correspondent Svetlana Ilicheva reported with enthusiasm about an appearance by singer Victoria Tchekovaya (pictured) at a vocal festival of the Moscow Jazz Art Club. Ms. Tchekovaya’s concert was in observance… … read more
  AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-01-31Why’s nobody mourning Paul Kantner? Jefferson Airplane flies foreverPaul Kantner in 2008, photo by Mike Krepka for The Chronicle Jefferson Airplane fo
  
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• The Gentrification Of San Diego Killed An Experimental Arts Space, And Hasn’t Replaced It Yet

  01-02-2016 06:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘This will diminish the opportunity for the arts to be present on a continuing basis in the central part of San Diego,’ he said. ‘And that’s the kernel of the issue. Let’s not forget that.'”
  
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• The Top Things The Washington Post Learned From Nielsen’s ‘Peak TV’ Numbers

  01-02-2016 05:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Out of 1400 (fourteen hundred!) TV shows, AMC ended up being one of the big winners: “‘Mad Men’ and ‘Breaking Bad’ are gone, but how would AMC even notice? ‘The Walking Dead’ (19.4 million) is the third-most watched show on all of television. The next-highest cable show? Spin-off ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ (11.8 million).”
  
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• Yvonne Chouteau Was One Of The ‘Five Moons,’ Native American Ballerinas Of Oklahoma

  01-02-2016 04:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A child prodigy as a dancer — she liked to joke that if one reversed the syllables in her surname, ‘Chou-teau’ became ‘Toe-shoe’ — Ms. Chouteau started dancing when she was 2 1/2 years old. She received early training in Oklahoma and then in New York City, where she attended the School of American Ballet. She was accepted into the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at 14.”
  
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• Disney Animated Movies Taught An Autistic Boy To Speak, And Now There’s A Movie About Him

  01-02-2016 03:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We ask parents all the time: What is your child’s passion? And they come up with all sorts of things: dinosaurs, maps, Harry Potter, Thomas the Tank Engine, Star Wars. We’ve surveyed thousands of people with these challenges and most have some video-related affinity. The passion is almost always one of a video nature. They can stop and rewind the images, slow it down and use them like the Dead Sea Scrolls to figure out social interactions; to hold a mirror up to the themselves
  
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• The Globe Is Taking Its All-Country ‘Hamlet’ To The Refugee Camp In Calais Known As ‘The Jungle’

  01-02-2016 02:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re here for the people who need stimulus… they are in an environment that is not providing any excitement [or] nourishment for the brain.”
  
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• Carol Burnett Takes On Gender Discrimination In Comedy (Again)

  01-02-2016 01:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I had a terrific and unheard-of contract that said that all I had to do was push the button, and the network would have to give me 30 one-hour variety shows. Yeah. And I told them that that’s what I wanted to do. But they said ‘Carol, no no no no, look. All the comedy variety shows are hosted by men. Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, now Dean; comedy variety is a man’s game.’ Mm-mm. No.”
  
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• Untitled(I don’t think she has eyelashes)

  01-02-2016 00:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  p has blisters on his neck. his hair is frizzy and kinky. he has brown eyes.i think he may be arabic or spanish. he gets in his head. he reads philosophyto get out of his head but it only makes him fearful. he reads philosophyto help with the poetry and poetry to help with the philosophy to no avail.he is always dealing with his feelings, the subjunctive.my buddy has on a pendelton jacket. she has two espressosand water. she looks dead tired after a week of teaching. i haven’t talked to he
  
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• What The Hell Is Going On With The Harold Pinter Estate And The Wooster Group In Los Angeles?

  01-02-2016 00:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is not clear how theater critics will respond to the request that they not review the Los Angeles run, which begins performances on Thursday. An offended actor/playwright, Colin Mitchell, published on the local theater website Bitter Lemons a plea for defiance: ‘Let’s flood the LA Media outlets with writing about this show.’ The theater critic for The Los Angeles Times, Charles McNulty, said Thursday that he was in discussion with his editors.”
  
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