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• What are your burning questions for the arts?

  19-02-2016 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Createquity is investigating the most important issues in the arts and what can be done about them. Tell us where you think we should be going next.
  Createquity is a virtual think tank and online publication investigating the most important issues in the arts and what we, individually and collectively, can do about them. We review and synthesize published research from a range of disciplines in order to present an authoritative account of what the evidence says about important questions facing t
  
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• Associate Dean, The New School for Jazz, College of Performing Arts

  19-02-2016 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Associate Dean reports to the Dean of the School of Jazz and is a core member of the senior leadership team at the College of Performing Arts (CoPA). This position plays an integral role in leading the jazz curriculum and faculty. The incumbent will collaborate with other New School and College of Performing Arts departments to promote a variety of curricular, co-curricular, performance, and project-based learning opportunities. The College of Performing Arts of The New School comprises
  
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• ‘Black Sheep Feminism’ at Dallas Contemporary

  19-02-2016 22:36 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• The Films At This Year’s Berlinale: Pervasively Gloomy

  19-02-2016 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Those feelings of displacement and despair crop up repeatedly at the Berlinale, as if in response to our current geopolitical moment – one defined by news stories about forced migrations and refugee crises.”
  
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• Virtually Artificial Communities: Around London

  19-02-2016 22:10 via artnews.com
  On shows at the Zabludowicz Collection, FILET, SPACE, Chisenhale, Brewer Street Car Park, and Tramway Read More
  
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• Giant sculpture moved from walkway as mobile phones users keep bumping their heads

  19-02-2016 20:54
  
  People walking and texting fail to notice Sophie Ryder's huge piece of artwork on display at Salisbury Cathedral
  
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• Habitat: Carlos Vega

  19-02-2016 19:57 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Carlos Vega; Midtown, Manhattan. “I like the idea of humanity going through a process of unstoppable enlightenment,” Carlos Vega told me recently in his studio. Late last year Vega exhibited work at Jack … Read More
  
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• Bodyscapes: This artist makes mountains out of flesh

  19-02-2016 17:47
  
  Carl Warner offers a 'more intimate reflection of our inner being' by viewing our bodies as landscapes
  
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• A Gentle Paris Painter of Another Age: William N. Copley on Serge Charchoune, in 1960

  19-02-2016 17:41 via artnews.com
  In honor of the Menil Collection’s William N. Copley survey, which opened today and is subtitled “The World According to CPLY,” we turn back to the March 1960 issue of ARTnews, which featured a profile of the painter Serge Charchoune … Read More
  
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• Here’s the Met’s Statement About Its New Logo

  19-02-2016 17:08 via artnews.com
  'It represents something simple, bold, and indisputable: The Met is here for everyone' Read More
  
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• Shia LaBeouf and Eduardo Paolozzi both take the lift – the week in art

  19-02-2016 17:04
  
  Mark Wallinger goes into analysis, the ancient Greeks expose themselves and Shia LaBeouf gets stuck in an Oxford lift – all in your weekly art dispatchMark Wallinger
  One of the wittiest and most thoughtful artists at work in Britain today meditates on identity and psychoanalysis in this large new show featuring self-portraiture, ink-blot tests, Leonardo da Vinci and Sigmund Freud. What an ego! Or rather, what an id.• Hauser and Wirth, London, 25 February to 7 May Continue reading...
  
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• Street performers today are only after a quick buck. Bring in auditions | Duncan Meadows

  19-02-2016 16:59
  
  The head of the National Gallery wants to ban street performers from outside the building. How about sifting out the fakes instead?When George Lucas shot Star Wars in 1976, I wonder whether he realised that Yoda, his most peaceful creation, would be causing chaos outside of London’s National Gallery 40 years later.Well actually, it isn’t the real Yoda – it isn’t even a Yoda with make-up. It’s someone wearing a 50p Yoda mask. And unlike in Star Wars, if you traipse a
  
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• Morning Links: Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector Edition

  19-02-2016 15:09 via artnews.com
  CATS The art historical background of Neko Atsume; or, “why am I obsessed with a game about collecting cats?” [The New York Times]PRIVATE DEALBillionaire Ken Griffin has paid approximately $500 million for two Abstract Expressionist paintings in one of the most … Read More
  
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• Shia LaBeouf occupies Oxford lift for performance art project

  19-02-2016 14:58
  
  Actor and two collaborators will be in the elevator for 24 hours to 9am on Saturday and will also address Oxford UnionThe actor Shia LaBeouf is occupying a lift in Oxford with two other performance artists for 24 hours as part of his latest project.LaBeouf and his art collaborators Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner will also address the Oxford Union on Friday evening. Related: Shia LaBeouf: 'Why do I do performance art? Why does a goat jump?'Continue reading...
  
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• Flying ant day, train art, a machine that makes gorillas, the automated checkout voice – we review anything

  19-02-2016 13:34
  
  Every Friday we apply critical attention to things that don’t normally get it. This is an important function that might just hold civilisation together. Or, more likely, not. Drop your suggestions for reviews in the comments or tweet them to @guideguardian Continue reading...
  
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• Shia LaBeouf is spending 24 hours in an elevator in Oxford University

  19-02-2016 13:14
  
  Apparently it's an act of 'enforced intimacy'
  
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• De-Bosched! Who cares if a painting isn't by a famous artist after all?

  19-02-2016 13:08
  
  Masterpieces by Rembrandt, Da Vinci and now two of the Prado’s famed Bosches have been identified as the work of ‘followers’ – is it time to update the labels?Art museums like to present their best treasure in an authoritative way. Clearly printed labels on paintings tell you the artist’s name and when he or she lived, as well as the likely date of the work. But how reliable is that information? And if the facts change, do labels change too? Related: Hieronymus Bosc
  
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• Inside Grayson Perry's sketchbook

  19-02-2016 11:59
  
  From treasured childhood notebooks to drawing with his daughter, Perry’s sketchbooks are the place where the artist learns if an idea is ‘a goer or a dud’My sketchbooks do not make up a smooth, continuous series, as at different times in my career the sketchbook has played different roles. I think my attitude towards the sketchbook originates from when my grandmother gave me a little stack of very cheap notebooks. I treasured them and filled them with diagra
  
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• The Met museum's new logo is infuriating typography enthusiasts

  19-02-2016 11:30
  
  'The entire top half of the new logo consists of the word 'the''
  
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• Hockney, Hamling and Gormley's helping hand for The Big Draw

  19-02-2016 10:07
  
  There has been much speculation recently that a child born today may witness the extinction of humans—unless we drastically reduce carbon emissions. It is fitting, then, that leading artists including David Hockney, Quentin Blake, Yinka Shonibare and Maggi Hambling will auction works next month to raise money for an environmental arts project involving more than 30,000 children, called It’s Our World. The initiative—which features works by children across the UK who have recor
  
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• Hockney, Hambling and Gormley's helping hand for The Big Draw

  19-02-2016 10:07
  
  There has been much speculation recently that a child born today may witness the extinction of humans—unless we drastically reduce carbon emissions. It is fitting, then, that leading artists including David Hockney, Quentin Blake, Yinka Shonibare and Maggi Hambling have donated works to an auction next month that is the culmination of an environmental arts project involving more than 30,000 children, called It’s Our World. The initiative—which features works by children across
  
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• Delacroix's Paris: The presence of the artist who embodied liberté, égalité and fraternité looms large

  19-02-2016 09:59
  
  The galleries of Paris are unusually quiet, says Michael Hodges, which makes it easier to enjoy the work of the impetuous Parisian who changed the course of art in the 19th century
  
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• Ad-free art on the underground: Düsseldorf's 'pure' new metro line

  19-02-2016 08:30
  
  Geometric shapes, projections of planets, LED walls ... Germany’s first art on the underground project is an ambitious collaboration between artists, engineers and architects“It was an unusual project,” says Berlin-based artist Heike Klussmann, a lead designer of the new U-Bahn line, which opens on Saturday in the German city of Düsseldorf. Fifteen years in the making, the Wehrhahn metro line consists of six new stations running east to west beneath the city centre, collab
  
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• Melbourne art fair cancelled after withdrawal of three major galleries

  19-02-2016 04:51
  
  Melbourne Art Foundation chair says the board, whose decision to cancel was unanimous, had no intention of putting on an ‘affordable, mediocre’ fairOne of Australasia’s most celebrated contemporary art events, the Melbourne art fair, has been cancelled citing a failure to attract international collectors, little national interest, and the withdrawal of three major galleries from exhibiting.Chairperson of the Melbourne Art Foundation, Anna Pappas, made the announcement on Friday
  
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• Untitled( She Is My Anything I Want Her To Be At The Moment)

  19-02-2016 00:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  she looks young and sturdy. the woman in the wheel chair is needling me.she wants me to help her. she has money problems. she smothered my nose and pissed on my nose and mouth. she said she was paralyzed from a truck accident when she was 12. she earns a living as a sex worker. she won’t give me her name. she has amazing complete breasts. she has bony knees and thin legs that haven’t been used for most of her life. she has small eyes and a long wide chin that makes me think she was b
  
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• London Arts Unions Alarm: Crisis Talks Over English National Opera

  19-02-2016 00:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Trade bodies BECTU, Equity and the Musicians’ Union are planning a joint crisis meeting to save English National Opera from becoming a “part-time company”.
  
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• MBnB: book a Broodthaers-inspired New York studio for $95 per night

  19-02-2016 00:01
  
  If the Marcel Broodthaers retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (until 15 May) hasn’t quench your thirst for the Belgian artist’s witty work, you can now crash in a Broodthaers-inspired studio apartment for just $95 per night (with a two-night minimum). During the retrospective, the Broodthaers Society of America—actually the controversial New York artist Joe Scanlan working under an institutional pseudonym—has made the “MBnB” apartment avail
  
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• Renoir: Revered and Reviled review – the good, the bad and the fleshy

  19-02-2016 00:00
  
  The latest virtual tour of a blockbuster exhibition shows you around the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, with critics who grapple with Renoir’s late periodHere is the latest in the Exhibition on Screen series, this time designed to allow us to step inside the celebrated Barnes collection of modern French art – and specifically its mammoth Renoir holdings – as it is unlikely to ever travel away from its Philadelphia HQ. Barnes’s predilection was for Renoir’s “
  
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