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• What Kind Of Art Are We Sending To The Moon On The MoonArk?

  28-02-2016 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Everything, however, remains visual; nothing exists in data form. To accomplish this, the team had professional engravers laser-etch the various visuals in platinum on sapphire discs, resulting in delicate-looking objects that are works of art in their own right.”
  
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• The Ballerina Who Keeps On Dancing In Damascus Despite Syria’s Civil War

  28-02-2016 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Making her way from her small apartment in the city where she grew up, passing bombed out buildings, crowded cafes and ubiquitous security checkpoints, Nagham ventures daily to the studio where she first honed her internationally recognized skills as a ballerina.”
  
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• The Hessian Minerva: on the collector Karoline Luise of Baden

  28-02-2016 22:00
  
  The “princess who knew a lot and asked a lot of questions” sounds like a character fr om a fairy tale. It was, however, how Johann Kaspar Lavater referred to Karoline Luise of Baden (1723-83), one of the most remarkable connoisseurs and dilettanti of the 18th century. The daughter of the count of Hessen-Darmstadt, she grew up in a household burdened with staggering debts but mindful of the education of its offspring. From the age of ten she was educated in an encyclopaedic range of
  
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• Single-artist shows and off-beat booths at this year’s ADAA Art Show

  28-02-2016 22:00
  
  The Art Dealers Association of America opens its 28th annual art fair, The Art Show, on 2 March, held in the drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. In recent years, the show’s focus has been on more off-beat stands, especially ones focusing on single artists, says Anthony Meier, the vice president of the ADAA, and chair of The Art Show. “It’s been evolving of the last five or six years,” he said. “I think the booths, because of t
  
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• Paxman on Delacroix: 'he wouldn’t have enjoyed being typecast as a louche bohemian'

  28-02-2016 22:00
  The writer and broadcaster Jeremy Paxman talks to the Art Fund and gives his take on the recently opened Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art (until 22 May) at the National Gallery, London.
  • For The Art Newspaper’s view on the show, its previous iteration at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the accompanying catalogue, see Eugène Delacroix’s long reach laid bare in National Gallery show, What Delacroix taught the Moderns: Beth Wright on Delacroix and the Rise of Moder
  
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• More than dust on the surface: on Jean-Etienne Liotard's pastels

  28-02-2016 22:00
  Pastel is a paradoxical medium. It is the most fragile of materials—essentially dust rubbed on a surface (usually paper). It is easily disturbed and impossible to fix without altering its character. Yet when it is well cared for, pastel is a stable medium, lacking as it does the amount of binders, stabilisers, driers and adulterants that cause oil paints to discolour. The colours of 18th-century pastels are sumptuously rich and vivid compared with darkened oil paintings of the period.The
  
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• How British silver seduced 17th-century imperial Russia

  28-02-2016 22:00
  
  Three hundred and seventy pieces of British-made silver in the State Hermitage Museum range in size and importance from thimbles to a wine cooler large enough to bathe the young Tsarevitch Ivan VI in 1740. This, the Jernegan-Kandler wine cooler, familiar from Elkington’s 1880s electrotype in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Whiteley Silver Galleries, has been justly described as both “the most extraordinary piece of silverwork to be made in England in the 18th century” a
  
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• Brain drain at Sotheby’s as Henry Wyndham the latest to leave

  28-02-2016 22:00
  
  Henry Wyndham, the charismatic and suave chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, is the latest in a growing list of high profile staff to decide to leave the auction house. Wyndham, an Old Masters expert, is also one of the art world’s few star auctioneers, having first taken to the rostrum when at Christie’s in 1977. He was at the helm for the Sotheby’s sale of Giacometti’s L’Homme Qui Marche I (1961), which sold for a £58m hammer price (£65m with premium)
  
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• Highlights From This Week’s ArtsJournal

  28-02-2016 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Arguably, the dominant cultural issue of our time is the changes in how people are finding and getting culture.In response, business models supporting culture and the kinds of culture being made are also changing.It also underpins debates about diversity, engagement and power. Some broad themes this week.
  
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• Interview with Alan Sondheim

  28-02-2016 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alan Sondheim is an artist you must follow. He tackles the frontiers of reality and through his work we can understand what is possible and what we really can do there. His magnum opus is Internet Text. He started work on the project 1994. It’s a meditation on various subjects, including philosophy, psychology, language, body, and virtuality.
  Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from Brown University. He lives with his partner, Azure Carter, in
  
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• Has The Minnesota Orchestra Come Back From The Brink After Its Long, Painful Lockout?

  28-02-2016 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The stakes will be high [at Carnegie Hall] when Vänskä and his musicians face a packed house of some of the sharpest ears in classical music, anxious to assess the orchestra’s rebound from a bitter 16-month lockout.”
  
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• Is There A Case For Classical Music Radio In This Time Of Spotify And Pandora And Apple Music?

  28-02-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “My go-to platform is radio. Since I spend so much of my work week choosing music for other people to listen to, I take immense pleasure in consuming playlists that other humans have curated when I’m on my own time. I listen terrestrially if I’m in my car or at home and stream the audio on my phone if I’m walking or bussing.”
  
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• The Great Abyss Of Missing Stories About Women

  28-02-2016 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We are always looking to tell something from a fresh perspective and with a fresh insight and it just so happens that, because of the way history is told, a lot of the untold stories are female. We are drawn to it from a storytelling point of view rather than specifically because it is based around women.”
  
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• How John Piper and other artists changed the fabric of post-war Britain

  28-02-2016 19:06
  
  As Britain emerged from post-war gloom, bold textiles by respected artists brought optimism – and art – into the home
  
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• The Met Museum Admissions Lawsuit Has Been Settled

  28-02-2016 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To dispel any remaining confusion, signs at the museum’s admission desks will also include two new sentences: ‘The amount you pay is up to you’ and ‘Please be as generous as you can.'”
  
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• KAWS, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, review: Hipsters' hero feels likeable but bland

  28-02-2016 18:18
  
  He's an exceptional designer but there's no bewilderment or confusion or excitement to these oversized toys
  
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• Mark Wallinger: Turner-Prize winning artist's new exhibition shows he still has a sense of humour and mischief

  28-02-2016 18:08
  
  The enormous 'id paintings', which are 360cm by 180cm, demonstrate that with this artist size always matters
  
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• Books Provide The Best Oscars Fodder, The Numbers Say

  28-02-2016 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When a book has been terrifically popular, when people love the story and the characters, there’s almost a public demand that it be turned into a movie. The studio can be confident that the film will make money, and it may even turn out to be a really remarkable film.”
  
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• All An American Musical Audience Wants Is A Good ‘I Want’ Song

  28-02-2016 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Time has proven that the pre-inciting incident I Want Song is the most successful with audiences. It gives the characters the power to make choices and influence the plot. When the characters are making choices, they are more sympathetic.”
  
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• Wes Anderson and the world of miniature art

  28-02-2016 15:00
  
  Artist Mar Cerdà creates highly designed miniature worlds – and the work of The Darjeeling Limited director was the perfect template for one of her latest projects“It’s like a kind of meditation,” says Spanish artist Mar Cerdà of her painstakingly labour-intensive dioramas. “I lose myself in the cutting and the details, then I forget to eat or what time it is.”Cerdà can’t remember exactly how long it took to create her miniature recr
  
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• Al-Jazeera America Bows Out With A Valedictory Look Back

  28-02-2016 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “AJAM online’s legacy, some of it captured on these pages, is a journalism of value and of values not tied to any ideology or political entity but morally committed when confronted by racism and bigotry, violence against the innocent, injustice and inequality, sexism and homophobia. We tried in our brief tenure to uphold the fine tradition of an American journalism that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.”
  
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• Turner's villa turns to crowdfunding to bolster restoration project

  28-02-2016 14:00
  
  Sandycombe Lodge in Twickenham appeals to public to raise last £125,000 of £2.4m target in bid to save it from collapsing A casual chat in a queue at the post office led to years of back-breaking work for an art historian to stop the house JMW Turner designed for himself as a modest country home from collapsing.Catherine Parry-Wingfield is chair of the trust that inherited Sandycombe Lodge in Twickenham, which she describes as “a three-dimensional work of art by one of the grea
  
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• In Honor Of These Oscars, Let’s Look At All The Times The Academy Picked The Wrong Best Picture

  28-02-2016 13:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Let’s take a walk through the past four decades of Best Picture winners of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It’s an almost unbroken chain of incorrect decisions!”
  
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• On my radar: Mark Wallinger’s cultural highlights

  28-02-2016 11:00
  
  The artist on his love of ballet, the broadcasting magic of Danny Baker and his affection for the animated adventures of Top CatBorn in Chigwell, Essex, Wallinger studied art at the Chelsea School of Art and at Goldsmiths College. In 1999, his sculpture Ecce Homo was the first work to be displayed on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth; the following year, Tate Liverpool put on a retrospective of his work. His Turner prize-winning 2007 installation State Britain, exhibited at Tate Britain, re
  
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• Mark Wallinger ID review – who does he think he is?

  28-02-2016 09:00
  
  Walking out with his shadow, painting at full stretch, Mark Wallinger takes a compelling look at identityThe shadow of a man slips down the street in broad daylight, tall, dark and mercurial. It slithers over kerbstones, sidles up walls and passes straight through the oncoming people. We recognise it as a shadow, but not as an actual person; in fact it could be anyone, although it might be possible to guess from the head shape, the watch strap, the trademark spectacles and loose shirt that
  
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• How art helped me see the beauty in loneliness

  28-02-2016 09:00
  
  Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City explores the connection between isolation and creativity. In this extract she examines its role in the work of Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol and others, and suggests we should all be a little less frightened of being alone…Q&A: neuroscientist John Cacioppo on science of lonelinessFirst person: what people say about being aloneImagine standing by a window at night, on the sixth or 17th or 43rd floor of a building. The city reveals itself as a set of ce
  
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