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• The UK’s Funding Cuts Are Destroying Regional Museums

  08-02-2016 23:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A public protest on the scale of the movement fighting for the preservation of local libraries has yet to get under way. So far, the British public seem to feel less ownership of their neighbourhood museum. But anger is growing, with campaign groups springing up to protect specific gems.”
  
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• The Second Act Of Pamela Anderson

  08-02-2016 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pamela became a celebrity in a different age. … Her heirs to the throne of tabloid notoriety have no such luxury, nor do they desire it. The celebs created by Instagram and YouTube became famous to be seen; what’s the point of privacy? Now that every would-be Kardashian can send out a constant, direct-to-consumer stream of staged intimacy and selfies, access—the longtime currency of fame—has been upended. Pamela, whose image was ubiquitous before ubiquity could be
  
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• Seven tips from the top: essential job advice from US museum directors

  08-02-2016 22:00
  
  How do you become a museum director? That’s the question behind a new book of interviews—Eleven Museums, Eleven Directors: Conversations on Art and Leadership—by Michael Shapiro, the former director of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Published by the High and available on 1 February, the book contains interviews with some of the highest-profile museum directors working in the US today, including Gary Tinterow of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Timothy Rub of the Phila
  
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• Schwitters’ Dada dwelling moves from island stable to Norwegian museum centrepiece

  08-02-2016 22:00
  
  One of the few surviving Merzbau by the German Dada artist Kurt Schwitters has a new home in Norway. The Romsdal Museum in Molde is due to unveil Schwitters’ three-dimensional collage, considered a forerunner of installation, on 9 February. “The hut’s existence has been known little internationally,” the art historian Karin Hellandsjo says.The Merzbau was transferred fr om the island of Hjerteoya, just south of the coastal city of Molde, where Schwitters gradually built
  
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• Rotterdam museum to rent out public space to wealthy collectors

  08-02-2016 22:00
  
  A museum in Rotterdam is setting an unusual precedent with a money-making scheme to store and display art owned by private collectors. The endeavour is part of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen’s Public Art Depot, an open art storage facility designed by the architecture firm MVRDV due to open in late 2018. Rotterdam’s city council approved the plan late last year.
  Private collectors will be able to rent storage space for €350 to €400 per square metre. For an additional fe
  
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• Lisson Gallery Reveals May Opening Date, Programming for First New York Space

  08-02-2016 21:48 via artnews.com
  Nearly two years after first announcing plans to open a gallery space in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood—right under the world-famous High Line—the London-based Lisson Gallery revealed an opening date, the architectural renderings, and the space’s programming for 2016 at a press … Read More
  
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• Elizabeth Dee Gallery to Leave Chelsea for Two-Story Harlem Space

  08-02-2016 21:39 via artnews.com
  Chelsea’s Elizabeth Dee Gallery is moving north to Harlem, the New York Times reported earlier today. Having operated from its modestly sized 10th Avenue location for the past 15 years, Elizabeth Dee Gallery will soon occupy a much larger two-story space … Read More
  
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• Rabindranath Tagore, In A New Translation, Is Too Sexy For China

  08-02-2016 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Most Chinese grew up thinking Tagore was mild and romantic, all stars, gardens and flowers,’ Mr. Feng said in a recent interview in his Beijing studio. ‘So with my translation, many people felt like their Tagore, the Tagore from their childhood textbooks, had been challenged.'”
  
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• Lisson opens New York space with solo shows for Carmen Herrera, John Akomfrah, Ryan Gardner and Ai Weiwei

  08-02-2016 21:00
  
  London’s Lisson Gallery is scheduled to open its first New York location on 3 May. Due to occupy an entire block in the Chelsea neighbourhood in Manhattan, the 8,500 sq ft. space is led by Alex Logsdail, the son of the British art dealer Nicholas Logsdail, who founded the gallery in 1967 and pioneered then-emerging artists like Yoko Ono. With its American debut, the gallery aims to continue its trajectory to “make artists, not follow them”, Alex Logsdail said during a press br
  
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• Lisson opens New York space with solo shows for Carmen Herrera, John Akomfrah, Ryan Gander and Ai Weiwei

  08-02-2016 21:00
  
  London’s Lisson Gallery is scheduled to open its first New York location on 3 May. Due to occupy an entire block in the Chelsea neighbourhood in Manhattan, the 8,500 sq ft. space is led by Alex Logsdail, the son of the British art dealer Nicholas Logsdail, who founded the gallery in 1967 and pioneered then-emerging artists like Yoko Ono. With its American debut, the gallery aims to continue its trajectory to “make artists, not follow them”, Alex Logsdail said during a press br
  
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• Lisson opens New York space with solo shows for Carmen Herrera, John Akomfrah and Ai Weiwei

  08-02-2016 21:00
  
  London’s Lisson Gallery is scheduled to open its first New York location on 3 May. Due to occupy an entire block in the Chelsea neighbourhood in Manhattan, the 8,500 sq ft. space is led by Alex Logsdail, the son of the British art dealer Nicholas Logsdail, who founded the gallery in 1967 and pioneered then-emerging artists like Yoko Ono. With its American debut, the gallery aims to continue its trajectory to “make artists, not follow them”, Alex Logsdail said during a press br
  
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• ‘Calvin Marcus: Malvin Carcus’ at David Kordansky, Selected by Joshua Abelow

  08-02-2016 21:00 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week's shows are selected by Joshua Abelow Read More
  
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• Joshua Abelow Selects ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’

  08-02-2016 20:59 via artnews.com
  Last year, we began asking artists to select a week’s worth of exhibitions for our daily “Pictures at an Exhibition” section, which highlights noteworthy shows at museums and galleries around the world. The first artists to take the helm were Hank … Read More
  
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• Is Twitter Becoming Facebook? (And Does Anyone Not Already On Twitter Care?)

  08-02-2016 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It tears conversations apart, and it’s really confusing when some people have been live-tweeting an event and those things get scattered all across my timeline. It makes it extremely hard to follow events, and destroys one of the core values of Twitter, in my opinion.”
  
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• Our Phone Addiction And What It Really Means (Or Does It?)

  08-02-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If so much of what we do on the Internet is harmful to us, and harmful to one another, perhaps we should do less of it. But that turns out to be not so simple. There’s no clear boundary between a hard-to-quit behavior and a compulsive one.”
  
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• Let’s Talk About Problems With The Jazz Solo Grammy

  08-02-2016 19:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The heroic stand-alone solo is an interesting lens for how jazz is popularly understood, but not necessarily how it is practiced. Jazz is about context and collaboration; it really is about bands. (For that reason, it’s a good thing that most of the solos in this year’s crop come from records made by working bands.) If the way you listen to jazz is to wait for the sustained passage of individual heroism, you may be missing a lot.”
  
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• Behind The Scenes, Using Instagram, At City Ballet

  08-02-2016 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Viewing the creation of The Most Incredible Thing on Mr. Peck’s and Mr. Dzama’s Instagram feeds offers a new way of engaging with dance and contemporary art. I began to wonder how much more they and the dancers are asked to account for themselves and their work in fixed forms. Documenting ballet has always been a tricky proposition. By translating dance into writings, interviews, recordings, and critical essays, you understand how ephemeral the medium is.”
  
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• The English National Opera’s Chorus Is Voting On A Strike

  08-02-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘We do feel the proposals put forward to us, although probably well meant, actually are going to destroy English National Opera once and for all,’ she said. The announcement of the ballot was made in appropriately dramatic fashion with the chorus singing Hail Poetry from The Pirates of Penzance at a press conference in central London.”
  
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• Philadelphia Museum of Art Announces Three Staff Appointments

  08-02-2016 17:24 via artnews.com
  Change is afoot at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with news of three staff changes. Two are promotions and one is a new hire.Alexandra Kirtley, previously associate curator of American decorative arts, has been promoted to curator. Jennifer Thompson, associate curator of European … Read More
  
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• Coast to Coast: Frank Stella and Larry Bell on the 1960s Los Angeles Art Scene

  08-02-2016 17:01 via artnews.com
  In 1965, Larry Bell had his first solo show in New York, at the Pace Gallery. This was a major event for a Los Angeles artist, especially at a time when the art world turned all of its attention toward … Read More
  
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• Dallas Museum of Art Appoints Nicole R. Myers Curator of Painting and Sculpture

  08-02-2016 17:00 via artnews.com
  Olivier Meslay, the associate director of curatorial affairs at the Dallas Museum of Art, announced today that Nicole R. Myers has been named the Lillian and James H. Clark Curator of Painting and Sculpture, effective February 29. Myers will be … Read More
  
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• 7 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week

  08-02-2016 16:49 via artnews.com
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• Settlement Reached In Fake Rothko Case, But Gallery Still In Court

  08-02-2016 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The case against Ms. Freedman, whose testimony had long been anticipated, is expected to be dismissed in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Monday, said Luke Nikas, a lawyer for Ms. Freedman. But the case against Knoedler, now entering its third week, would continue.”
  
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• Why was Leonardo da Vinci such a genius? He was just like you and me

  08-02-2016 15:35
  
  As a new Science Museum exhibition shows, Leonardo remains a cultural titan in the digital age because, like Shakespeare, he was an artist of the peopleLeonardo da Vinci is the Shakespeare of art and engineering. Both creative titans died many centuries ago, but live so vibrantly in modern imaginations they feel like our contemporaries. Getting into the hottest new Shakespeare production is a tricky business but this weekend, I finally watched Michael Fassbender in Macbeth. The text was too seve
  
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• Saudi Artists Are Pushing The Boundaries

  08-02-2016 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Conceptual art is new in Saudi Arabia — a visual language that is easily understood by a young generation steeped in Internet culture, but flies just as easily past Saudi censors. Gharem and his band of young artists push the boundaries of critical speech now, not with words but with images.”
  
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• Morning Links: Hauser Wirth & Schimmel Edition

  08-02-2016 15:13 via artnews.com
  NEWHauser Wirth & Schimmel’s forthcoming Los Angeles space is going to sport “a bookstore, a research area, an education lab, a planting garden (complete with water fountain for dogs), a public breezeway and, of course, a restaurant.” [The Los Angeles Times]The Museum of … Read More
  
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• Steering The National Theatre In A New Direction

  08-02-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That requires what Power describes as ‘two types of gardening at the same time: planting really deep and at the same time growing stuff quickly. Not quicker than it needs, but being instantly responsive and finding a place in the repertoire as quickly as possible, so that artists and audiences understand what we stand for and what we want to be.'”
  
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• The Builder Who Shaped The Skylines Of LA, NY, Chicago And Detroit

  08-02-2016 13:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An heir to the company founded by his grandfather Julius in 1898, Mr. Tishman supervised the construction of three of the world’s earliest 100-story-plus skyscrapers: the John Hancock Center in Chicago, completed in 1970, and the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, completed in 1973.”
  
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• Photographer Martin Parr on being back in vogue - and setting his sights on the British establishment

  08-02-2016 11:52
  
  The photographer is back with a vengeance. He talks to Hettie Judah
  
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• Monkey business in London's Chinatown

  08-02-2016 11:23
  
  London’s Chinatown is a one-stop shop for dim sum, crispy duck and bubble tea. But for one week only the China Exchange on Gerrard Street is offering Chinese culture of a different kind, with a pop-up selling show of paintings and sculptures by 15 contemporary artists. Circle Lines (until 14 February) is the first exhibition organised by the non-profit Hurun Art Foundation outside China. Rupert Hoogewerf, Hurun’s British founder, says he hopes to “capture the momentum of Chine
  
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• Fischli and Weiss: hamming it up at the Guggenheim

  08-02-2016 11:00
  
  The Swiss art duo employed everything from sausages to pizza boxes in their deadpan, witty and sometimes deliberately banal artworks – and now their work is all over New YorkIn 1979, the Swiss art duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss strolled into a Zurich supermarket searching for art supplies. They stopped at the deli. “We saw the cold cuts in the glass vitrine, pointed to it and said: ‘Look, it looks like a carpet shop,’” said Fischli on the phone from the Guggenhei
  
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• Top AJBlogs Posts For 02.07.16

  08-02-2016 07:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Bebop Super Bowl
  It is Superbowl Sunday in the United States. The Superbowl is an event in which the top two National Football League teams play one another for the league championship. Tickets to the game sell for… … read more
  AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2016-02-07Five ArtsJournal Stories You Shouldn’t Miss This Week
  Ah, an old-fashioned press-banning. Feels like the good old days. Of the 162 stories we collected this week, a few memes emerged: It was the week of artis
  
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• De Soles reach settlement with Ann Freedman—but Knoedler case could still go on

  08-02-2016 06:42
  
  In the middle of a closely watched trial, Ann Freedman, the former director of the Knoedler Gallery, has reached a settlement with Domenico and Eleanore De Sole, the collectors’ lawyer Gregory Clarick confirmed Sunday night. The settlement, to be announced in court on Monday morning, comes after two weeks of witness testimony for the plaintiffs, who allege that Freedman and Knoedler knowingly sold the De Soles a fake painting purportedly by Mark Rothko for $8.4m in 2004.The case against t
  
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• How Do Rich People Make Their Libraries Great? They Call This Bookstore

  08-02-2016 06:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘It’s not that we’re selling by the yard,’ said the store manager, Nicky Dunne. ‘But if they’re interested in a subject’ — 19th-century French topiary, Brutalist architecture, salmon husbandry or something more obscure — ‘and haven’t properly explored books on that subject, then they come to us.'”
  
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• It’s 2016, But There’s Still Another First For Women: Late-Night Comedy Show Host

  08-02-2016 05:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Samantha Bee, whose show starts Monday night: “Canadians, in general, are pretty awestruck by the kinds of character studies you get to do during a US election cycle. It’s been true for any election cycle I’ve been a part of, for sure. It’s such a circus, and it goes on forever.”
  
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• Ann Freedman Settles With the De Soles in Knoedler Trial Over $8.3 M. Fake Rothko

  08-02-2016 05:02 via artnews.com
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• Members Of Parliament Demand That Museum’s Collection Not Be Moved To London

  08-02-2016 04:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Not a single person on the board of trustees has links to Bradford, or indeed the wider region. We cannot have decisions about our city and our region being made by the ‘great and the good’ in London.”
  
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• Making Comics More Real, Or At Least More 21st Century

  08-02-2016 03:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The world of comics in 2016 resembles the music business in 1977-1980, when agile indie labels such as Rough Trade and Factory outmanoeuvred the major record companies and the majors were forced to respond.”
  
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• The Joy Of A Terrible But Experimental Book From A Successful Author

  08-02-2016 03:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even as my unease and disappointment increased with each passage like this, I began to feel a strangely pleasurable tingling. There was no escaping the fact that I was reading a bad book by a very fine writer, but it occurred to me that this was actually a good thing.”
  
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• Picasso’s Daughter Says She Did *Not* Sell Disputed Sculpture To Two Different Owners

  08-02-2016 02:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Maya Widmaier Picasso, who is the artist’s daughter with his French mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, issued a statement through her lawyer Thaddeus Stauber on Friday saying she sold a 1931 plaster bust of her mother, ‘Bust of a Woman,’ to a New York dealer, Larry Gagosian, in May. The dealer subsequently sold it to Mr. Black for roughly $106 million, a record-high price for any Picasso sculpture.”
  
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• When Symphony Musicians Retire

  08-02-2016 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m happy to be able to watch all the Steelers games on Sunday because I don’t have to work. They had a good season, in spite of everything.”
  
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• The Year Carol Channing Starred In The First Super Bowl Half-Time Show

  08-02-2016 00:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Channing wasn’t the center of attention. The show was mostly built around the Southern University marching band performing a tribute to Mardi Gras. And the highlight was not Channing or the band, but a bizarre re-enactment of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, waged by actors dressed in period costume firing cannons and pretending to fall dead on the turf.”
  
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