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• Can YouTube Really Get People To Pay To Watch Videos?

  03-02-2016 23:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “YouTube execs hesitate to compare their efforts to Netflix, Hulu or Amazon, but Red gives the streamer, which boasts more than 1 billion viewers, a foothold in the lucrative paid video business. It also diversifies YouTube’s business beyond its estimated $8 billion-plus in annual ad revenue.”
  
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• First Look At The Results Of SFMoMA’s Huge Expansion

  03-02-2016 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It will be all about the collection when the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opens its doors to the public May 14 after a three-year rebuilding that roughly doubles its size and triples its gallery space.”
  
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• Is This The Physical Manifestation Of A Bach Fugue?

  03-02-2016 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Translating an ephemeral medium like music into a physical object brings unavoidable challenges, namely the fact that music is inherently dynamic in both tempo and tone. An architectural installation, by its very nature, wants to be still.”
  
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• Schnabel & Son in St. Moritz

  03-02-2016 22:28
  
  It’s good to see that the budding contemporary art dealer and curator Vito Schnabel has turned to his father— the art world titan that is Julian—for his next show at his new Swiss gallery. Vito launched his new space—formerly veteran dealer Bruno Bischofberger’s gallery in St. Moritz—in December with works by the Swiss artist Urs Fischer. Later this month, the gallery is “pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Julian Schnabel”, proclaims
  
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• We’re a Happy Family: Queens Museum Will Stage Ramones Retrospective

  03-02-2016 22:15 via artnews.com
  The prodigal sons of Queens return home. The New York Times reports today that on April 10, the Queens Museum will open a retrospective on the rock-and-roll band The Ramones titled “Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of … Read More
  
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• The market sobers up at London’s Impressionist and Modern sales

  03-02-2016 22:00
  
  While sparks may not have flown at the Christie’s evening sales on Tuesday, the results were solid given the predictions for a less frothy market in 2016. While the respectable hammer total of £82.5m fell shy of the estimate (£87.3m-£129.1m), the buyer’s premium pushed it up to £95.9m. The sell-through rate was 75%. “You could say there was no fizz in the champagne, but for the first sale of the season it went fine. It was a good, old fashioned London t
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Betty Woodman on full throttle at the ICA—aged 85

  03-02-2016 22:00
  
  The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is hosting a comprehensive exhibition of Betty Woodman’s vibrant painted ceramics and mixed media work, including two series of bespoke pieces made especially for the galleries of the London institution. Now in her 86th year and still working full throttle, the human dynamo that is Woodman is an inspiration for us all. This message came over loud and clear at Tuesday’s lunch (2 February) to celebrate her show—which also inaugurates the
  
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• Market sobers up at London’s Impressionist and Modern sales

  03-02-2016 22:00
  
  While sparks may not have flown at the Christie’s evening sales on Tuesday, the results were solid given the predictions for a less frothy market in 2016. While the respectable hammer total of £82.5m fell shy of the estimate (£87.3m-£129.1m), the buyer’s premium pushed it up to £95.9m. The sell-through rate was 75%. “You could say there was no fizz in the champagne, but for the first sale of the season it went fine. It was a good, old fashioned London t
  
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• Blain Southern celebrates five years in Berlin

  03-02-2016 22:00
  
  Five years after opening a space in Berlin, the gallery Blain Southern marks the occasion with an exhibition of all the artists they’ve shown in the German capital. The group show (16 February-16 April) includes a neon work by the British duo Tim Noble and Sue Webster, who inaugurated the gallery in Der Tagesspiegel’s former printing press in April 2011.
  “We love being here,” says Lisa Bosse, the managing director in Berlin. The gallery has “embraced the scene&rdqu
  
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• Rose Marcus at AND NOW, Dallas

  03-02-2016 21:40 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: Rose Marcus‘s solo exhibition is on view at AND NOW in Dallas through February 13.
  
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• The Atlantic Highlights Recent Wave of Anti-Donald Trump Art

  03-02-2016 21:02 via artnews.com
  An article published today by The Atlantic spotlights a surge of satirical and critical art aimed at the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, with a focus on the artists David Gleeson and Mary Mihelic’s T.RUMP Bus project.Gleeson and Mihelic (who … Read More
  
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• Swizz Beatz, the Brooklyn Museum Board Member Who’s Unloading a Warhol to Buy Dustin Yellins, Discusses His Show at Sotheby’s

  03-02-2016 20:23 via artnews.com
  Kasseem Dean—the collector who sits on the board of trustees of the Brooklyn Museum and holds works by Basquiat, KAWS, and Kehinde Wiley in what he calls The Dean Collection—is perhaps better known as the rap producer Swizz Beatz. In … Read More
  
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• Here’s the 2016 Pulse New York Exhibitor List

  03-02-2016 20:05 via artnews.com
  The Pulse Contemporary Art Fair has released the exhibitor and programming lists for its eleventh edition in New York, which will be held once again at the Metropolitan Pavilion from March 3 through March 6.Galleries from four continents will show … Read More
  
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• Painting Norway: Nikolai Astrup review – Tolkienesque scenes of Midsummer magic

  03-02-2016 19:24
  
  Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
  Munch’s contemporary evokes the wonder of Norse folklore, using an insider’s intimacy to turn his local landscapes into fairytales of another ‘middle earth’There are two kinds of landscape artists. Let’s call them rangers and diggers. The first type travel far and wide, finding inspiration in exotic places and grand scenery. The second stay at home and dig down deep into their own world. If JMW Turner was the ultimate ranger, always o
  
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• ICA Miami Expands Curatorial Team, Hiring Gean Moreno, Stephanie Seidel

  03-02-2016 18:14 via artnews.com
  The Institute of Contemporary Art Miami announced two new curatorial appointments today, with Gean Moreno becoming curator of programs and Stephanie Seidel assistant curator. The news comes after the dust has settled a bit from the museum splitting from the Museum … Read More
  
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• TEFAF Maastricht Plans Two Annual Fairs in New York

  03-02-2016 17:22 via artnews.com
  TEFAF Maastricht announced today that its Dutch art fair is now going to have two counterparts across the Atlantic, in New York.The first TEFAF fair, titled TEFAF|New York|Fall, will happen in October and focus on art from throughout the ages. The second, TEFAF|New … Read More
  
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• 'Public nudity is a uniform': the artist who stripped off at the Musée D’Orsay

  03-02-2016 17:14
  
  Performance artist Deborah de Robertis discusses ‘political nudity’, police interrogation and filming her recent dressing down at a Paris museumThe 10 most shocking performance artworks everWhen Deborah de Robertis walked into the Musée D’Orsay in Paris and threw off her fur-collared coat in front of Édouard Manet’s painting Olympia to reveal her own naked body, it wasn’t meant as a fleeting publicity stunt. She wore a GoPro camera strapped to her head
  
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• Patricia Perez Eustaquio at Tyler Rollins Fine Art

  03-02-2016 17:10 via artnews.com
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• ICP Gives 2016 Infinity Awards to Walid Raad, Zanele Muholi, David Bailey, More

  03-02-2016 17:03 via artnews.com
  The New York–based International Center of Photography announced the 2016 winners of its annual Infinity Awards, which have been given annually since 1985 to honor excellence in photography. The awards will be given at the ICP’s annual benefit on April … Read More
  
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• {Fiction} When Pigs Fly

  03-02-2016 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As a kid, whenever I asked Mom for something out of this world – like a new bike or video game console — her favorite reply was “Sure, when pigs fly.”
  When I was 5, I painted a mural of the zoo on the hallway wall while she napped. I showed her masterpiece once she woke. My eyes were bright with the praise I expected to receive. Instead, she cuffed me on the back of the head and told me to scrub my “graffiti” off her walls.
  Tears welled up in me, but I choked
  
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• France and Netherlands finalise €160m 'Rembrandt Treaty'

  03-02-2016 16:33
  
  The “Rembrandt Treaty” between France and the Netherlands represents the first time that two states have together bought a work of art. The pair of Rembrandt portraits of Maerten Soolmans and his wife Oopjen Coppit (1634) will go on show together, in turn at the Louvre in Paris and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. In a private sale arranged by Christie’s, the paintings were bought for €160m fr om the family of the French banker Éric de Rothschild. French law meant a j
  
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• Morning Links: Fischli/Weiss Edition

  03-02-2016 15:05 via artnews.com
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• KAWS at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park – in pictures

  03-02-2016 14:38
  
  Museum unveils new exhibition by the renowned American artist KAWS, aka Brian Donnelly, that includes six monumental sculpturesContinue reading...
  
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• Sculptor Betty Woodman at the ICA: 'Ceramics was always a macho world'

  03-02-2016 14:16
  
  Call her a potter at your peril. As Betty Woodman’s first solo UK show opens, the 85-year-old powerhouse opens up about small-minded curators, super-sized art and her lifelong love affair with the sticky stuffIn the hands of Betty Woodman, the possibilities of clay seem endless. Voluptuous vases, ornate wallpapers and even a gaggle of kimono-clad women burst into life from her pottery wheel. But call this octogenarian a potter at your peril. Woodman learned her craft making dinner sets and
  
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• Greek island donates 14,000 refugee lifejackets to Ai Weiwei

  03-02-2016 13:17
  
  Ai Weiwei’s latest comment on the refugee crisis is a work of art created out of 14,000 lifejackets found on the Greek island of Lesbos. The island’s mayor Spyros Galinos donated the jackets to the Chinese artist and activist, who is due to construct the work in his Berlin studio.“This work aims to mobilise the global community regarding the crime carried out daily in the Aegean by ruthless people smugglers,” according to a statement issued by local authorities and publi
  
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• Historic agreement puts V&A in pole position for photography

  03-02-2016 11:35
  
  More than 400,000 photographs housed at the National Media Museum (NMM) in Bradford, UK, will transfer to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, cementing the V&A’s position as a leading centre for the study of photography. The move will “create the world’s foremost collection on the art of photography”, according to curators at the V&A and the Science Museum Group, which runs the National Media Museum.
  The objects drawn fr om the NMM’s three-million-s
  
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• Curator/curatorial team for the Malta Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2017

  03-02-2016 11:23
  
  THE MALTA PAVILION AT THE VENICE ART BIENNALE
  2017 edition Call for expression of Interest for the engagement of a curator/curatorial team for the Malta Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale in 2017  The International Art Exhibition will be held from 13th May to 26th November 2017. Malta is officially returning to the Venice Art Biennale after an absence of 17 years. It has so far participated with a special exhibition of Maltese Artists in 1958 and a National Pavilion in 1999.The M
  
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• If Brisbane wants to be a 'new world city' it should stop persecuting artists and act like one

  03-02-2016 08:03
  
  The show trial of acclaimed street artist Anthony Lister points to deep logical flaws in the city’s cultural ambitionsSouth-east Queenslanders of a certain age will remember a television jingle for Brisbane’s Seven network affiliate, BTQ-7, from 1983. Sung by the one-hit wonder Kim Durant, the catchy campaign number was entitled Love You Brisbane. It’s a turn that brings back memories of a smaller, more innocent Brisbane: a friendly river city with kids playing on lawns. Relate
  
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• The explicitly sexual female artists that feminism forgot

  03-02-2016 02:23
  
  A new exhibit in Dallas showcases work inspired by pornography that was hugely controversial in the 70s, but which makes sense viewed in 2016Of the likely places to host a feminist art exhibition, the Dallas Contemporary doesn’t immediately come to mind. Texas is the state of GOP presidential hopeful Senator Ted Cruz, where battles over women’s reproductive rights have moved to the supreme court as recently as November. Enter the Dallas Contemporary’s latest exhibition Black Sh
  
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