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• Judge Abruptly Calls Recess Right Before Ann Freedman’s Testimony In Knoedler Trial

  09-02-2016 22:48 via artnews.com
  On Tuesday, after a lunch break at Domenico and Eleanore De Sole’s trial against the Knoedler gallery in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the room was packed with onlookers in preparation for the testimony of Michael Hammer, Knoedler’s owner, and … Read More
  
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• What is the government’s new plan for the future of the arts?

  09-02-2016 22:00
  
  It is more than 50 years since a British government announced its intention to make the UK “a gayer and more cultivated country”. That quotation comes fr om A Policy for the Arts: the First Steps, Britain’s first White Paper on cultural policy, published by the first minister for the arts, Labour’s Jennie Lee, in 1965.Until this year it was the only comprehensive statement of a government’s attitude to the arts and heritage. Ed Vaizey, the minister of state for cul
  
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• Video-game designer goes to the next level with solo museum show

  09-02-2016 22:00
  The Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts is organising what it calls the first solo show of a video-game designer in an art museum. The presentation of work by the California-based designer Jason Rohrer (The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer, 10 February-26 June) aims to deconstruct the distinction between video games and fine art. Rohrer’s games tackle the same ambitious themes “that draw us to art… such as love, melancholia, friendship, death”, says Mike Maize
  
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• Qing emperors’ carpets grace Turin museum

  09-02-2016 22:00
  Thirty-sixrare Qing dynasty (1644-1912) carpets, made from silk and metal in the
  18th and 19th centuries to adorn the podiums and thrones of the
  Forbidden City in Beijing, are on show at the Museo di Arte Orientale inTurin (Power and Magic: Carpets from Imperial China, until 28 March).
  There are only around 300 examples of such works in existence. They are
  famed for their visual complexity, incorporating an arresting
  combination of vivid colours, Taoist symbols and mythological imagery.
  The show
  
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• Austrian attaché has Russian Revolution on his mind

  09-02-2016 22:00
  
  Simon Mraz, the Austrian cultural attaché, art collector and director of the Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow, is planning a contemporary art show on the continuing impact of the 1917 Russian Revolution on both Russia and the world. The exhibition will draw on untapped resources in Russia’s regions.It is due to open in October 2017 to coincide with the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and the centenary of the revolution that shook the world. It follows Nadezhda—the Hope Prin
  
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• Settlement reached with both parties in Knoedler case

  09-02-2016 21:37
  
  UPDATE, 10 February: The collectors Domenico and Eleanore De Sole reached a settlement with Knoedler Gallery and its parent company 8-31 Holdings this morning. Gregory Clarick, an attorney for the De Soles, said that his clients were "thrilled" to have made a settlement with both the gallery and its former director, Ann Freedman, after having told the story of Knoedler's actions between 2004 and 2009 and "putting the entire truth on the table". A lawyer for Knoedler said that the
  
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• Judge suspends Knoedler trial early, before owner and former director can testify

  09-02-2016 21:37
  
  Due to “unexpected developments”, Manhattan federal judge Paul Gardephe abruptly recessed court proceedings in the Knoedler fakes trial this afternoon, just moments before the gallery’s owner Michael Hammer, who was present, and former director Ann Freedman were scheduled testify. The judge told the jury to report back to the courtroom tomorrow morning at 9:30 am.The announcement set off immediate speculation in the crowded courtroom that a final settlement was in the works be
  
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• Here Are the Artist and Exhibitor Lists for the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York

  09-02-2016 20:36 via artnews.com
  The 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair announced the artist list today for its second edition in New York, which will once again be held at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn, from May 6 through May 8, overlapping with Frieze … Read More
  
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• Beginning to See the Light: Doug Wheeler on His Immaculate ‘Encasements’ at David Zwirner

  09-02-2016 19:50 via artnews.com
  It’s been ages since Doug Wheeler saw the five light-emitting installation works in his current show at David Zwirner in New York. These pieces with subdued palettes belong to his “Encasements” series, which Wheeler executed almost 50 years ago. Their … Read More
  
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• Juanita McNeely at Mitchell Algus, Selected by Joshua Abelow

  09-02-2016 19:45 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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• A Tsunami of Data: Laura Poitras, Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl, and More Discuss Surveillance Technology at the Whitney

  09-02-2016 19:44 via artnews.com
  On Saturday afternoon, at the Whitney Museum in New York, Laura Poitras had a warning for her audience: “If there’s anyone in the room who has intelligence, who has clearance, you’re going to be seeing classified information as part of … Read More
  
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• Neuromancer: Why Today’s Horror Movies Are Scarier

  09-02-2016 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Today, Hitchcock’s fantasy of direct access to the brain is a reality in neurological operations such as deep-brain stimulation (DBS) for the treatment of patients with Parkinson’s disease. Experiments using the same technology aim to cure depression by stimulating more joyful emotional circuits. In turn, Hitchcock’s films are used by neuroscientists to study emotions in the brain.”
  
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• Is It Possible To Teach Students Passion For Reading?

  09-02-2016 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Those students most in need of great books are by and large too strafed by their environments to invest the necessary force of mind.”
  
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• The Wondrous Robot Clocks Of 12th-Century Turkey

  09-02-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Al-Jazari … worked as the chief engineer at Artuklu Palace, headquarters of the Artuqid dynasty that ruled over parts of Turkey, Syria and Iraq in the 11th and 12th centuries. During his time there, he invented a large number of devices that revolutionized mechanical engineering … Perhaps Al-Jazari’s most wondrous inventions were his clocks, because they were about so much more than just telling the time.”
  
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• Forest Whitaker Makes His Broadway Debut

  09-02-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The role will be the first time in decades that Mr. Whitaker, an in-demand film and television actor who won an Oscar for his work in The Last King of Scotland, has acted in a play. It will also be the first time that a black actor has played Erie Smith on Broadway.”
  
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• Yale Taps Marta Kuzma to Be Dean of Art School, Taking the Place of Robert Storr

  09-02-2016 17:41 via artnews.com
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• Yale Taps Marta Kuzma to Be Dean of Art School, Taking the Place of Rob Storr

  09-02-2016 17:41 via artnews.com
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• Gallery explores Liverpool's key role in pre-Raphaelite art

  09-02-2016 17:33
  
  More than 120 works including by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and William Holman Hunt go on display at Walker art galleryThey were the punk rockers of their day – subversive, rule-breaking, dangerous – and a new exhibition argues that it was Liverpool more than any city outside London that made the pre-Raphaelites into Britain’s first modern art movement.The central importance of Liverpool to a brotherhood of artists who, in the 19th century, changed the course of B
  
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• Studies: Creative Brains Work Differently

  09-02-2016 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The common traits that people across all creative fields seemed to have in common were an openness to one’s inner life; a preference for complexity and ambiguity; an unusually high tolerance for disorder and disarray; the ability to extract order from chaos; independence; unconventionality; and a willingness to take risks.”
  
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• Jack Coulter: Meet the young artist with synesthesia who 'hears' colour

  09-02-2016 17:08
  
  The 21-year-old contributed artwork to SOAK's Mercury-nominated album Before We Forgot How to Dream, takes inspiration from Kurt Cobain and believes in art as the best form of therapy
  
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• In Bombed-Out, Besieged Syrian City, Volunteers Assemble 15,000-Volume Library

  09-02-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is a place of learning and ideas, with books salvaged from the wreckage outside … A photocopy of an old history book, a shelf full of children’s stories, and self-help books by Tony Robbins, sit alongside a J.M. Coetzee novel, a volume of Islamic scholarship, and slim editions of Arabic poetry by Mahmoud Darweesh or Nizar Qabbani. They are read by candlelight during lengthy power outages or at the war front by rebel fighters.”
  
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• Qatari tycoon’s cash injection for street art supremo Lazarides

  09-02-2016 16:37
  
  The headline-hitting London dealer Steve Lazarides, who started out as Banksy’s photographer, has a new backer, the high-profile Qatari businessman and collector Wissam Al Mana. His investment— a “seven-figure sum” according to the Financial Times— will allow the street art dealer, who represents JR and Invader, to relocate his Lazarides Rathbone gallery from Fitzrovia to Mayfair. Lazarides highlights the developments in a cheeky statement, saying: “Firstly,
  
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• Christer Strömholm at Pace/MacGill

  09-02-2016 16:30 via artnews.com
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• Christer Ströholm at Pace/MacGill

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• Turin’s Egyptian museum dedicates gallery to Italian student murdered in Cairo

  09-02-2016 16:09
  
  The Museo Egizio di Torino is paying tribute to Giulio Regeni, who was murdered in Cairo, by dedicating its Hall of Deir el-Medina to the Italian student who was doing research in the Egyptian capital, Italian media reports
  The Hall of Deir el-Medina in the Turin museum is a large gallery that contains artefacts recording the history of workers’ lives in ancient Egypt at a site near Luxor. Regeni, who was 28 years old, was researching labour relations and unrest in contemporary Egypt for
  
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• Temporary Opera House, Built Entirely Of Wood, Opens In Geneva

  09-02-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 1,118-seat venue, called the Opéra des Nations, “was recycled from a temporary building used in Paris when the French capital’s Comédie Française itself underwent renovations.” It will be used for 2½ years while Geneva’s Grand Théâtre undergoes renovation. The acoustics are said to be excellent.
  
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• What 74 Years Of New York Times Crossword Puzzles Say About The Language We Use

  09-02-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The results are imperfect, since the puzzles can be tricky and there is a lot of overlap between English and foreign words. But the broad trend is clear. The puzzle today uses one-third fewer non-English clues and answers than it did at its peak in 1966, and makes two-thirds fewer international references than its peak in 1943.” (includes interactive puzzle)
  
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• Illustrator captures the simple joys of being single

  09-02-2016 15:40
  
  'I like to show women who exist in solitude but do not suffer'
  
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• Michelangelo Had Terrible Arthritis In His Hands – And Kept On Painting

  09-02-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Recently published research “suggests that Michelangelo Buonarroti suffered from osteoarthritis for the last 15 years of his life. Miraculously, though the researchers claim that this was why the Renaissance master could not write his own letters toward the end of his life, it did not affect his art practice, which remained prolific up to the week of his death.”
  
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• You Could Buy Michelangelo’s Villa

  09-02-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The deeds to Michelangelo’s old Tuscan villa, a three-structure complex complete with Renaissance-age fixtures, functional wood-burning fireplaces, and an olive grove, could be yours for just $8,369,602.” (includes photos and floor plans)
  
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• The Play That Samuel French Tried To Stop An Hour Before Curtain? Here’s What Happened Next

  09-02-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The show went on – with some ingenious last-minute adjustments by the show’s creator/performer, Erin Pike. For instance, the performance started with the voicemail message a Samuel French executive left Pike saying that the performance was “illegal” and the agency would “go after [their] presenter.” (includes audio of voicemail message)
  
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• Morning Links: Art Brussels Edtion

  09-02-2016 14:46 via artnews.com
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• Philly’s Fledgling Summer Opera Festival Still Hasn’t Paid Last Year’s Performers

  09-02-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “About the only ones who don’t want to be quoted [for this story] are those suing the company who have been advised by legal counsel to stay quiet.”
  
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• Art—coming soon to a cinema near you

  09-02-2016 14:40
  
  A series of short films by five artists will be screened at cinemas across the UK—but cinemagoers will be unaware that the pieces will be shown as part of their viewing experience. The four-to-six-minute films—part of the Artists Cinema initiative—will be played before regular features at cinemas countrywide.
  The project, which launched yesterday (8 February) in cinemas, is co-organised by the Independent Cinema Office and Lux, and funded by Arts Council England. The artists c
  
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• What The Washington Ballet Needs In A New Director

  09-02-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sarah Kaufman: “It’s difficult to imagine a new director matching Webre’s magnetism, room-brightening cheer and go-go output. But a new hire doesn’t need to. … With a strong financial position, the Washington Ballet has an opportunity to shoot for the top. It should focus on the very highest quality, not just the short-term buzz of exhilaration. Why shouldn’t it be the nation’s premier chamber-size ballet company?”
  
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• Will Streaming Music Kill Songwriting?

  09-02-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If streaming is the future of music, songwriters may soon be back to where they started. Stephen Foster, America’s first professional songwriter, was also the first to die broke.”
  
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• Woman Buys $200 Sofa On Craigslist, Winds Up With $60K Warhol

  09-02-2016 14:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Warhol screen print of a man’s genitalia was bought by accident after a clueless seller sold a couch through the site and threw in a box of junk that happened to contain the artwork. A New Jersey woman was the lucky buyer who decided to pick up the box while collecting the couch, all for $200, on the Lower East Side.”
  
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• Human for sale: the artist who turned herself into a corporation

  09-02-2016 13:32
  
  Responding to the stalker economy with her own brand of extreme capitalism, Jennifer Lyn Morone™ Inc is making her life her business. So why, she asks, do we hand our data to big tech companies for free? We live in a world awash with stories of stolen metadata, search engines that allow us to watch live videos of babies sleeping and toys that can be hacked to steal your child’s name, birth date and gender; what Al Gore summed up as our “stalker economy”. So the image of J
  
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• Orchestra of the ROH/Pappano, Royal Opera House, classical review: Displaying the kind of versatility we usually take for granted

  09-02-2016 13:15
  
  The original version of Musorgsky's Night on a Bare Mountain exploded like a succession of fireworks
  
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• Goya, Magritte and Cai Guo-Qiang feature in Arab art show

  09-02-2016 12:29
  
  An exhibition that opened in Madrid today (9 February) of works by contemporary artists from across North Africa and the Middle East includes Arab-inspired paintings by Goya and Magritte alongside works by Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, Wael Shawky and Manal Al Dowayan among others. A large-scale work by the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who is organising his own show in Qatar, is one of the more than 160 works by 34 artists in the exhibition. They all come from the collection of Qatar Museums, wh
  
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• Goya and Magritte feature in Arab art show opening in Madrid

  09-02-2016 12:29
  
  An exhibition that opened in Madrid today (9 February) of works by contemporary artists from across North Africa and the Middle East includes Arab-inspired paintings by Goya and Magritte alongside works by Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, Wael Shawky and Manal Al Dowayan among others. A large-scale work by the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who is organising his own show in Qatar, is one of the more than 160 works by 34 artists in the exhibition. They all come from the collection of Qatar Museums, wh
  
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• 'Drawing is like taking a line for a walk': the best Artoons – in pictures

  09-02-2016 12:00
  
  Leonardo’s Last Supper gets a Come Dine With Me makeover, there’s a tricky start to the Surrealists’ day, while Braque and Picasso turn artistic mountaineers in Peter Duggan’s tongue-in-cheek art world tributes Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.08.16

  09-02-2016 09:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Squawking in Milwaukee: My Upcoming WSJ Review of the Milwaukee Art Museum
  For my article on the “Arts in Review” page of tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal, (online later today, if all goes according to plan), I had the challenging task of reviewing an entire museum in 900 words. … read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-02-08Monday Recommendation: Thad Jones/Mel Lewis
  The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, All My Yesterdays (Resonance) This is an alert to an event—
  
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• Executive Director, Orlando Ballet

  09-02-2016 03:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Orlando Ballet seeks a dynamic and knowledgeable individual to serve as chief executive officer and administrative leader of Central Florida’s prominent professional ballet company.
  The professional company of 25 national and international dancers is complemented by a school of over 1,250 students in three locations. The Executive Director will work in partnership with the Artistic Director, Robert Hill, and the Board to develop and execute the strategic vision that supports Orlando Ballet
  
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• The FCC Is About To Give You (Physical) Control Over Your Cable Box

  09-02-2016 02:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even as computers, wireless phones and other electronic devices have become cheaper, the cost of renting cable boxes has been increasing. That’s because cable companies have made it incredibly hard for customers to buy and use their own machines.”
  
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• The Value Of Real Architecture In A Strip-Malled State

  09-02-2016 01:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Cities traded rich architectural histories — marked by encounters and conflicts between Native Americans, the Spanish, the French, and later arrivals from Europe and the Caribbean — for easy money in the form of modern coastal development. This makes sense; there is money in waterfront property. But this is no charming Nantucket or Cape Cod; my city doesn’t even pull a San Francisco and have a touristy wharf.”
  
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• YOLA And Gustavo Dudamel Nail Their Super Bowl Appearance

  09-02-2016 00:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Classical music’s vaunted elitism is tissue-paper thin: The field is always almost pitiably hungry for validation from the pop world, while appearing to disdain it. But if the field is really eager to win over young audiences, this is the way to do it.”
  
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