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• Is The Metropolitan Museum’s New Logo A Train Wreck?

  17-02-2016 23:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In its logo, the Met is now THE MET, the two short words printed in scarlet letters, stacked and squashed together. The whole ensemble looks like a red double-decker bus that has stopped short, shoving the passengers into each other’s backs. Worse, the entire top half of the new logo consists of the word the.”
  
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• Lauri Firstenberg to Leave LAXART as Board Begins Search for New Director

  17-02-2016 23:08 via artnews.com
  Lauri Firstenberg, who founded the Los Angeles alternative art space LAXART as a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard, is leaving the nonprofit organization at the end of March, ARTnews has learned. A release indicates that she will “pursue other career opportunities.”The … Read More
  
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• Gillian Wearing asks for a peek through people’s windows

  17-02-2016 22:08
  
  A new film by Gillian Wearing capturing views fr om windows across the world is the centerpiece of the House contemporary art festival in Brighton this spring.
  The Turner Prize winner is inviting contributors to upload short clips of either curtains or blinds opening to reveal the view from a window through the website yourviewsfilm.com. The complete work, entitled Your Views, will go on show in Brighton University Galleries as part of a solo exhibition dedicated to the artist called A Room Wit
  
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• Untitled(he looks like he’s shadowing himself. old age is like being an undercover agent.)

  17-02-2016 22:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  the six year old girl was happy to have some day time left to play. she saw that i saw her and waved her left hand as she walked by with her younger sister and mother.the not bad looking healthy young woman was living in a tent before she went missing. she has a mother, father, a younger brother, three aunts and a grandmother.it wasn’t easy for me to accept that the woman was homeless. she didn’t lookconfused or mentally ill. a portland sex worker, writer, actor, and performer posted
  
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• Two Sisters, One Murder, 500 Folk Songs

  17-02-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Twa Sisters,” a ballad about deadly sibling rivalry that was first notated and catalogued in Scotland in 1806; it turns out to have at least 531 variants (with several different denouements) spread throughout Europe and over much of the rest of the world.
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Darren Bader’s checkmate at Sadie Coles HQ

  17-02-2016 22:00
  
  We all know that there’s a long history of chess in art, and the latest artist to be treading in the footsteps of Marcel Duchamp et al is Darren Bader. The New York based artist has been putting on his own daily versions of this most ancient of games to coincide with his current show (Such are Promises, until 20 February) at Sadie Coles HQ on Kingly Street. Bader’s idiosyncratic gaming fest ends at the weekend but there is still time to be a participant in the last few contests by s
  
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• Sex Pistols photographer accuses artist Elizabeth Peyton of copyright infringement

  17-02-2016 22:00
  
  The photographer Dennis Morris, who rose to fame as a teenager shooting Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols, claims a painting by Elizabeth Peyton infringes his copyrighted photograph of punk singer John Lydon from 1977. According to a spokesman for his public relations agency, Morris is considering taking legal action over the painting, John Lydon, Destroyed (1994), which was removed from Sotheby’s contemporary art day sale on 11 February.
  Sotheby’s says the painting “was withdraw
  
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• Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery remains shut contrary to reports

  17-02-2016 22:00
  
  The Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, which was closed by Egyptian administrative authorities late December, is still not open to the public although staff at the venue are currently working on the future programme, says the director William Wells. Local press reports say that the gallery, a non-profit contemporary art venue founded in 1998, is due to re-open this week.
  Wells tells us that “none of the [gallery] spaces are open to the public at the moment… Staff are currently working on
  
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• Cabaret Voltaire, birthplace of Dada, faces uncertain future

  17-02-2016 22:00
  Founded in 1916 by a group of artists in Zurich—led by Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings, and followed by Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Tristan Tzara—Dada marks its centenary this year. In the middle of the celebrations, the Cabaret Voltaire, the birthplace of the movement, is seeking 13 million Swiss francs to secure its future, reports Swissinfo.The cabaret was saved once before, in 2002. Artists led by Mark Divo calling themselves the neo-Dadaists occupied the building at Spiegelgas
  
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• Cabaret Voltaire, birthplace of Dada, could be yours for $13m

  17-02-2016 22:00
  Founded in 1916 by a group of artists in Zurich—led by Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings, and followed by Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Tristan Tzara—Dada marks its centenary this year. In the middle of the celebrations, the Cabaret Voltaire, the birthplace of the movement, is seeking CHF13m ($13.1m) to secure its future, reports Swissinfo.The cabaret was saved once before, in 2002. Artists led by Mark Divo calling themselves the neo-Dadaists occupied the building at Spiegelgasse 1 to
  
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• Asian Society Museum organises Japanese sculpture show—with no loans from Japan

  17-02-2016 22:00
  
  The Asian Society Museum in New York has organised a show centred on sculptures fr om the Kamakura period (1185-1333)—and surprisingly, none of the works have been lent from Japan.
  Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan (9 February-8 May) features 34 works, with more than half coming from US museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Others come from private US collections, such as the Mary Grigg
  
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• Asia Society Museum organises Japanese sculpture show—with no loans from Japan

  17-02-2016 22:00
  
  The Asia Society Museum in New York has organised a show centred on sculptures fr om the Kamakura period (1185-1333)—and surprisingly, none of the works have been lent from Japan.
  Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan (9 February-8 May) features 34 works, with more than half coming from US museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Others come from private US collections, such as the Mary Griggs
  
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• Vinyl Records At Half The Speed, Twice The Sonic Quality?

  17-02-2016 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The process involves the original master tape being played back at 16 2/3 RPM, precisely half its recorded speed, while the cutting lathe is similarly turned at half the desired playback speed.”
  
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• ‘Erik Lindman: Torso’ at Ribordy Contemporary

  17-02-2016 18:15 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Erik Lindman: Torso” is currently on view at Ribordy Contemporary in Geneva, Switzerland, and featured new paintings by the New York–based artist. The exhibition is on view through March 5.  
  
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• The Most-Viewed Work of Performance Art In History: Vanessa Beecroft on Ditching the Art World for Kanye West

  17-02-2016 17:44 via artnews.com
  On Valentine’s Day, the artist Vanessa Beecroft sent an email telling me to go to an address on Wooster Street in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, where she would be, as the email stated, “w Kanye.” “Haven’t had a minute since k … Read More
  
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• Israel Museum Names Dan Handel Curator of Design and Architecture

  17-02-2016 17:24 via artnews.com
  The Israel Museum has announced the appointment of Dan Handel as curator of design and architecture. Handel, a curator, critic, and professor at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, is also a founding editor of Manifest, an … Read More
  
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• Cutting a Fine Figure: Around New York

  17-02-2016 16:46 via artnews.com
  On shows at the Whitney Museum, Hester, Subal, Feuer/Mesler, Beauchene, Hanley, Luxembourg & Dayan, Zwirner, and Canada Read More
  
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• The Imitation Game review – artificial, but not so intelligent

  17-02-2016 16:32
  
  Manchester Art Gallery
  Only Ed Atkins’ crowd-sourced, poetry-spewing avatar shows signs of life in this clunky exhibition inspired by Alan Turing’s test to see if machines can think“Doors opening, doors closing,” says the disembodied voice. The lift doors open, close and open again. After I’ve stepped out, the glass cabin ascends without me. I’m an unexpected item in the bagging area, stranded on the ground floor of Manchester Art Gallery, and going nowhere. N
  
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• Rare Botticelli drawings to go on display in London alongside 14th-century bible

  17-02-2016 16:23
  
  Artist’s works illustrating scenes from Dante’s Divine Comedy considered to be some of the finest Renaissance drawingsBotticelli drawings showing a nobleman feasting on the head of an evil archbishop, various sinners being cooked in baths of tar and a particularly scary Lucifer, chewing three traitors and flapping his six bat wings to create an icy wind at the interchange of despair and hope, are to get a very rare outing in the UK.The 30 drawings, all by Botticelli, go on show from
  
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• Botticelli drawings to go on display in UK for first time in 134 years

  17-02-2016 16:23
  
  Artist’s works illustrating scenes from Dante’s Divine Comedy considered to be some of the finest Renaissance drawingsBotticelli drawings showing a nobleman feasting on the head of an evil archbishop, various sinners being cooked in baths of tar and a particularly scary Lucifer, chewing three traitors and flapping his six bat wings to create an icy wind at the interchange of despair and hope, are going on display in the UK for the first time in over 100 years.The 30 drawings, all by
  
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• Famed ballerina Misty Copeland recreates the paintings of Degas

  17-02-2016 16:22
  
  The principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre posed as some of Degas' most iconic subjects
  
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• This sculptor is sinking fake bombs to the seabed

  17-02-2016 15:09
  
  Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water
  
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• Morning Links: Larry Gagosian’s Apartment Edition

  17-02-2016 15:06 via artnews.com
  HOMESA new lawsuit alleges that an ironworker who fell off a ladder last year and died while renovating Larry Gagosian’s Upper East Side new home did so because safety regulations were violated. [New York Daily News]“Investor donates his gravity-defying John … Read More
  
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• Photographer Mark Leary captures Cuba's antique car collection on the eve of a US return to the Caribbean island

  17-02-2016 12:37
  Photos you'll want to reach into and stroke
  
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• Italy sets up Unesco task force to protect antiquities in conflict areas

  17-02-2016 12:17
  
  The Italian government and Unesco have launched an Italian task force that will protect heritage sites in conflict zones worldwide. The foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni and the director-general of Unesco Irina Bokova signed an agreement in Rome yesterday, 16 February.The task force may be called by Unesco member states to assess damage, plan conservation efforts, and combat looting and trafficking in cases of terrorist attacks or natural disasters. They will also provide training for local rest
  
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• Aloha Kusama, artist’s polka dot sculpture heads to Hawaii

  17-02-2016 12:01
  
  Yayoi Kusama’s crowd-pleasing, sculptural installation Footprints of Life will go on show in Hawaii next month (from 8 March) at a luxury residential development in Honolulu. The work is a taster for the inaugural Honolulu Biennial, which is due to open spring next year.
  Kusama’s 15-part, polka-dotted pink piece will be displayed in the grounds of the IBM building, part of the Ward Village project under construction by the Howard Hughes Corporation.
  The veteran Japanese artist will
  
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• Who will build Berlin’s new museum of the 20th century?

  17-02-2016 11:10
  
  Berlin has kicked off an architectural competition for a new museum of 20th century art at the Kulturforum near Potsdamer Platz in the city centre, with an independent jury whittling down an impressive 460 entrants to ten proposals. The winning design will be sel ected at the end of the year.The site for the new museum is between Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s metal-and-glass Neue Nationalgalerie and Hans Scharoun’s spiky gold Philharmonie, two architectural landmarks of the 1960s. The
  
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• Vincent Van Gogh: Bedroom paintings recreated as real Airbnb room for art lovers to rent

  17-02-2016 10:07
  
  The Art Institute of Chicago is renting the room to celebrate Van Gogh's paintings going on display in North America
  
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• Is Kanye West hip-hop's greatest cubist?

  17-02-2016 09:00
  
  Whether West’s latest album The Life of Pablo is a homage to Picasso or not, the two artists share a genius for presenting the world in creative collageThe Life of Pablo – what a great title. It would be arresting on the front cover of a Booker prize winning novel. As the name of a hip-hop album, it proves pop culture evolves. Back in the day, people had to pretend they saw depth in such concept album titles as The Wall, Tommy and Sandinista! By those standards Kanye West deserves th
  
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• Provenance of 22 Asian artworks at National Gallery of Australia in doubt

  17-02-2016 08:41
  
  Review finds that although all 36 art objects investigated ‘were purchased by the NGA in good faith’, only 12 have satisfactory provenance At least 22 pieces of Asian art at the National Gallery of Australia have questionable ownership history, with 11 pieces classed as highly problematic, an independent review has found.Of the 36 Asian art objects acquired by the NGA between 1968 and 2013 that were the subject of the investigation, only 12 have satisfactory provenance. Another two p
  
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• National Museum of Scotland to open 10 new galleries in major expansion

  17-02-2016 07:00
  
  Museum to get new fashion gallery and space for exhibits including Dunlop’s first pneumatic tyre and a tongue-scraper belonging to Napoleon’s sisterThe National Museum of Scotland will open 10 new galleries this summer devoted to science, art and design, increasing its exhibition space by almost half and putting many treasures from its collections on display for the first time.
  The £14.1m project will give the museum its first fashion gallery, creating a permanent display for w
  
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