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• Audrey Azoulay replaces Fleur Pellerin as France’s culture minister

  11-02-2016 23:54
  
  As part of a major government reshuffle, Audrey Azoulay, currently President François Hollande’s cultural advisor, is to replace Fleur Pellerin as France’s minister of culture. According to our sister paper, the Journal des Arts, Pellerin learned that she was no longer the minister of culture and communication in the middle of a senate debate over her proposed “creation, architecture and heritage” law.
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• Art + Feminism Announces Third Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

  11-02-2016 22:34 via artnews.com
  Art + Feminism has announced that it will hold a third Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 5, following the enormous success of the event’s last two editions in 2014 and 2015. Once again, the edit-a-thon will take place at the Museum … Read More
  
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• SoundCloud (Used By Podcasters And Musicians) May Be Forced To Close

  11-02-2016 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The report makes it clear that while the company had “adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the forseeable future,” SoundCloud was heavily reliant on “further capital investment” to continue operating in 2015.
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Pots, pans, logs and poppadoms at Hauser & Wirth Somerset

  11-02-2016 22:00
  
  Matters culinary are currently pervading Hauser & Wirth Somerset with many of the gallery spaces of this former farm filled with a multitude of well-used cooking pots courtesy of New Delhi based artist Subodh Gupta. In one room discarded metal vessels have been crushed into square panels interwoven with vivid scraps of Indian fabric. In another room the shape of a giant pot is formed by a multitude of suspended aluminum pots and pans, which the artist describes as being “like a galaxy
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Monet blossoms at the Royal Academy, romance rules at the Redfern Gallery and more lusty London shows

  11-02-2016 22:00
  
  Pure Romance: Art and the Romantic Sensibility, Redfern Gallery (until 27 February)The jaunty, vivid ceramics of Betty Woodman, which are currently colonising two floors of the ICA, defy easy description. Vessels morph into figures into plinths and sometimes don a kimono for good measure. Some emerge from painted paper bases, and a lot of posing goes on. Brilliantly coloured rooms are conjured from hybrids of glazed earthenware, resin, lacquer, acrylic paint and canvas and can stretch the lengt
  
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• The best Will in the world: this year’s top Shakespeare shows

  11-02-2016 22:00
  
  Theatres across the globe are pulling out their best ruffs to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death this year. But museums are also getting in on the act. Fr om a US-wide exhibition of Shakespeare’s First Folio to a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to see his will, we bring you the shows that are taking centre stage.  By Me William Shakespeare: a Life in Writing, King’s College, Inigo Rooms, Somerset House (until 29 May)
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• Middle market shines through during week of uncertainty at London auctions

  11-02-2016 22:00
  Conservative pricing at Bonhams and Christie’s—aimed at the middle market rather than the top end—produced two solid contemporary sales on 11 February.
   
  Of London’s four major auction houses, Bonhams was the only one to meet expectations, bringing in a record total of £5.3m or £6.4m with buyer’s premium against an estimate of £4.5m to £6.3m. The sell-through rate was 79.2%.
   
  Despite being listed as lot number 49 in the catalogue,
  
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• How, In 2016, Do You Choreograph A 1940 ‘Negro Fantasy’?

  11-02-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cabin in the Sky is getting revived this summer by New York’s influential Encores! series for the sake of its score by Vernon Duke. With no record of the original choreography (partly) by Balanchine, how is Camille A. Brown making dances for the show? By looking to the work of the original co-star and co-choreographer, the pioneering Katherine Dunham.
  
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• Leslie Bassett, 93, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer

  11-02-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A master orchestrator who could coax a vast range of tonal colors from the bits of wood and brass for which he composed, Mr. Bassett wrote works for symphony orchestra, chamber and choral ensembles, solo instruments and voice.” He spent 40 years on the faculty at the University of Michigan.
  
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• Julia Rommel at Overduin & Co., Selected by Joshua Abelow

  11-02-2016 20:50 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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• Don’t Quite Get What A Play Is ‘About’? Don’t Worry – Theatre Isn’t A Puzzle

  11-02-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lyn Gardner: “It’s liberating for a theatregoer not to worry too much whether you’ve worked out exactly what it’s about. If you want to solve something, buy a Rubik’s Cube, not a theatre ticket. Not knowing exactly what it’s about doesn’t mean your response is invalid.”
  
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• Why would the De Soles settle their claim against Knoedler and Freedman?

  11-02-2016 19:32
  
  To courtroom observers, the evidence in the Knoedler fakes trial seemed to favour the plaintiffs, Domenico and Eleanore De Sole, who sued the gallery and its former director Ann Freedman for selling them a fake painting purportedly by Mark Rothko for $8.5m. So why did the collectors settle their claim, especially when there were only two days of testimony left? At this point we don’t know, but there were good reasons not to wait for a jury verdict.“Whenever parties agree to settle,
  
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• Do Critics (Should They) Have Power? (Or Is It Illusion?)

  11-02-2016 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Criticism is not a matter of technique or form,” AO Scott writes, “so much as it is a matter of personality, of who you imagine is doing the talking.” But equally important is on whose behalf the talking is being done. Blog or trade? Alt-weekly or the paper of record? It matters a great deal.
  
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• Van Gogh's bedroom or Tracey's bed: where would you rather sleep?

  11-02-2016 19:02
  
  Following Airbnb’s recreation of Van Gogh’s room in Arles, the history of art has a wealth of possibilities for similar ventures – but whose crib would you book? Related: Bed down with Van Gogh, your Airbnb host for the night I am not sure I want to sleep in Vincent van Gogh’s bed. But it’s a door now open to you, thanks to the Art Institute of Chicago, which has created a three-dimensional simulacrum of Van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles, as he painted it in some of
  
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• Salonen, Hannigan, Uchida – Ojai Music Festival Names Directors Through 2021

  11-02-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The coming directors include Vijay Iyer, the jazz pianist and composer, in 2017, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, the composer and conductor, in 2018 … [as well as] Barbara Hannigan, the soprano and conductor whose star has been rising because of her performances of new works, in 2019; Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the searching violinist, in 2020; and, in 2021, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist and conductor who was last a co-music director of the festival in 1998.”
  
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• Marianne Heske, artist

  11-02-2016 17:45
  
  'I'm not so interested in handicrafts. It's more thinking, mind-mountains'
  
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• Marianne Heske, artist: 'I'm not so interested in handicrafts. It's more thinking, mind-mountains'

  11-02-2016 17:39
  
  Karen Wright meets the artist in her studio in Oslo
  
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• Massimo De Carlo Will Open a Fourth Location, in Milan

  11-02-2016 17:16 via artnews.com
  Just under a month after announcing that it would open a third space, in Hong Kong, in March, Massimo De Carlo revealed plans today to open a fourth location, in Milan. The new gallery, slated to open in April, will … Read More
  
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• ‘It’s About the Possibility of Carrying On’: Claudette Schreuders on Her Show at Jack Shainman

  11-02-2016 16:53 via artnews.com
  The identity of a white South African is fraught with questions of belonging, particularly as a new generation of the country’s previously disenfranchised black majority make their voices heard. For the past 15 years South African sculptor Claudette Schreuders has been grappling … Read More
  
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• Martha Diamond at Alexandre Gallery

  11-02-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: Fashionable Cindy Sherman Edition

  11-02-2016 14:52 via artnews.com
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• Facebook removes image of Evelyne Axell's 'Ice Cream' because it is 'suggestive content'

  11-02-2016 11:47
  
  'If this is "suggestive" then we're in trouble'
  
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• Hieronymus Bosch review – a heavenly host of delights on the road to hell

  11-02-2016 10:00
  
  Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands
  An astonishing homecoming for this madly inventive artist sets the grotesque against a deep but compassionate melancholy that burns into your soulThey nibble giant strawberries and cavort inside transparent spheres, naked as newborns. Towers as pink and moist as bodily organs rise above the nude revellers, as they ride unicorns and camels bareback, swim with mermaids or crawl inside an egg. There’s always so much to do in The Garden of Earthly D
  
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• Grand Palais revamp could leave Paris’s biggest shows without a roof

  11-02-2016 05:00
  
  The Grand Palais in Paris will have to close for at least two years to undergo major renovations, says Jean-Paul Cluzel, the former head of the historic landmark, raising fears about the fate of key culture events held at the site such as major exhibitions, the Monumenta contemporary art commission and Fiac Modern and contemporary art fair.
  Cluzel, who was also president of the government cultural body, Réunion des musées nationaux (RMN), stepped down from his post in January afte
  
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• Stolen mosque lamps to return to Egypt as Cairo museum houses new database

  11-02-2016 04:00
  
  Three rare Mamluk mosque lamps that had been stolen and then offered for private sale are to be repatriated to Egypt. The authorities confirmed that the lamps had been stolen from the national collection and fakes left in their place. The Art Newspaper first reported the suspected thefts in December 2014.One of the lamps is now in the Egyptian Embassy in London, while two are in the United Arab Emirates, awaiting transport to Cairo, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities.
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• Untitled( she has an omniscient gleam in her eye.)

  11-02-2016 03:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  my smelly sneakers  remind me that i exist. i smell them all of a sudden and then i don’t. i’m not sure if i took my meds. it stays in my system for two days. i’m going to have a whisky later with a. she has nice fingers. she likes data. i shed data. everyone has my data. they have my numbers, the ones that count, the ones i remember even though i don’t want to. they want to send another person my way. i can feel it. i intuit everything. i haven’t interviewed a
  
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• Indigenous painting found at charity shop sells for $1,800

  11-02-2016 02:38
  
  Mystery surrounds how a piece by Western Australian artist Marcia Purdie came to be in a Melbourne VinniesAn ochre and charcoal artwork by an internationally exhibited Aboriginal artist from far north Western Australia has been sold for $1,800 – from a charity shop.The artwork, titled Spearhead Dreaming, turned up in a pile of donations to St Vincent de Paul’s Brunswick opportunity shop in December. Related: Battle for bark art: Indigenous leaders hail breakthrough in talks with Brit
  
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• Broad to show Cindy Sherman

  11-02-2016 00:39
  
  For its first special exhibition since it opened in September, the Broad Museum in Los Angeles has picked an artist who has spent much of her career looking at the cult of celebrity: the American photographer Cindy Sherman (11 June-2 October). The museum’s founders, Eli and Edythe Broad, have collected Sherman’s photographs since the 1980s, so most of the couple’s 125-strong holdings will be featured. The Hollywood location adds some fitting context to the show organised by Ph
  
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• Broad to host Cindy Sherman's Hollywood debut

  11-02-2016 00:39
  
  For its first special exhibition since it opened in September, the Broad Museum in Los Angeles has picked an artist who has spent much of her career looking at the cult of celebrity: the American photographer Cindy Sherman (11 June-2 October). The museum’s founders, Eli and Edythe Broad, have collected Sherman’s photographs since the 1980s, so most of the couple’s 125-strong holdings will be featured. The Hollywood location adds some fitting context to the show organised by Ph
  
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