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• Nabil Maleh, ‘Father Of Syrian Cinema’, Dead At 79

  02-03-2016 23:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[His] 1972 film, The Leopard, based on a novel by the Syrian author Haydar Haydar, was the first feature film released by the state-run National Film Organization and won first prize at the Locarno Film Festival that year. It tells the story of a lone rebel who defends his village against corrupt local authorities.”
  
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• When Charlie Chaplin met Pablo Picasso: How a war of egos took place in Paris

  02-03-2016 23:28
  
  Cultural titans, left-wing darlings - but how did Pablo and Charlie get on when they finally met? Their 1952 encounter has inspired a new book by David Caute
  
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• ‘The World’s First Feature-Length Painted Animation’: A Van Gogh Biopic Told With His Own Paintings And Letters

  02-03-2016 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Loving Vincent … brings together the skills of over 100 painters trained specifically to mimic van Gogh’s own technique and brushstrokes, with each frame composed of actual, hand-painted artworks.”
  
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• Who will lead the Musée d’Orsay?

  02-03-2016 22:00
  
  The knives are out at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris as its president, Guy Cogeval, reaches the end of his second three-year term this month. Cogeval, aged 60, has put himself forward for a third term, according to a spokeswoman for the museum. But several members of the institution’s staff have publicly questioned his fitness for the job in light of a stroke he suffered in 2014.Six curators at the museum anonymously contacted the newspaper Le Monde last month to contest Cogeval&
  
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• V&A unveils plan for new photography centre to house vast archive

  02-03-2016 22:00
  
  Curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) have pledged to put photography at the heart of the 164-year-old South Kensington institution by turning one wing into a centre dedicated to the medium.The strategy is partly designed to convince photography professionals who oppose the decision to transfer more than 400,000 photographs from the National Media Museum (NMM) in Bradford to the V&A. Critics say the move strips the northern city of a major cultural resource and could lead to
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: there’s something in the air at Steven Claydon’s latest show

  02-03-2016 22:00
  
  A distinct and pungent aroma assailed visitors arriving at the opening of The Gilded Bough, Steven Claydon’s show of new work at Sadie Coles HQ on Tuesday night (1 March). Puzzled sniffing persisted until the artist revealed that the mysterious odour was emanating from his Memory Curtains. The ceiling-high strips of industrial PVC dividing the space had been impregnated with citronella, a fragrant natural oil best known as an insect repellent. “My last show featured a squid lure to
  
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• Is now the time for Sherrie Levine’s market to take off?

  02-03-2016 22:00
  
  Late in February, the conceptual artist Sherrie Levine opened a show at David Zwirner’s New York gallery, on 20th Street, her first since leaving Paula Cooper Gallery, which represented her for around 17 years and which she abandoned in a high-profile departure last summer. Of her decision to leave, Levine said only: “At this point in my career, I wanted to be taken care of and the people at David Zwirner do just that very well.”Unexpected union
  That a behemoth like Zwirner wo
  
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• The Body Of A Woman: Nude Performance Art At the Armory Show

  02-03-2016 21:44 via artnews.com
  At the Armory Show booth of Galerie Alberta Pane, a naked woman sits inside a wire box upon a bed of flowers. For one day only, performance artist Romina de Novellis will remain inside this enclosure, occasionally affixing a couple … Read More
  
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• A Controversial South African Artist Claims Censorship, Releases ‘Your Mom’ Balloons at the Armory Show

  02-03-2016 21:44 via artnews.com
  Upon entering the contemporary pier of the Armory Show on Wednesday, the first thing fair attendees saw was a gigantic board hanging from the ceiling that proclaims, in bold letters, “ALL SO FUCKING AFRICAN.” Further complicating things was what’s installed below it: … Read More
  
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• A Tour of the 2016 Armory Show’s Modern Section

  02-03-2016 21:29 via artnews.com
  The Armory Show opened to press and VIPs today at Piers 92 and 94 on New York’s West Side. It runs through this Sunday. Below, a look at the fair’s modern section.
  
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• Mothers’ Day at the Armory

  02-03-2016 21:22
  
  Armory Show visitors may have noticed some of the attendees toting black helium-filled balloons that read YOUR MOM in white letters. The balloons are part of an installation by Ed Young, represented by the South African SMAC Gallery in the Focus section, which is centred near one of the entrances. There you will find a teddy bear holding a bundle of balloons below two massive banners that read: NOT ME IT’S YOU and ALL SO FUCKING AFRICAN. Young said he saw the piece as a critique of the so
  
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• Vincent Van Gogh: Art expert claims to have found the only photo of the artist as an adult

  02-03-2016 21:19
  
  The Dutch master is pictured in this 1888 group shot, according to an art expert
  
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• Scent of a woman?

  02-03-2016 21:00
  
  One of the more talked about pieces at the 2016 Armory Show vernissage—mainly because it was one of the few attempts at titillation in a relatively tame fair—was Romina de Novellis’s performance La Gabbia, which consists of the artist sitting naked in a chicken wire cage. A staff member on the stand of Paris’ Alberta Pane Gallery, which brought the piece to the piers, shrugged when asked how long de Novellis would be doing this.
  The artist occasionally pushes live roses
  
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• You Look So Different Online: Douglas Coupland Debuts Facial De-Recognition Software at the Armory

  02-03-2016 20:43 via artnews.com
  “I miss my pre-Internet brain.”“The unanticipated side effects of technology anticipate the future.”“I have meme fatigue.”These are three of the Douglas Coupland truisms that are nearby the Canadian artist and writer’s facial de-recognition software, titled Deep Face: Communicate with your … Read More
  
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• Tate and National Gallery risk war as 20-year-old accord on modern acquisitions ends

  02-03-2016 20:23
  
  New National Gallery head reveals he is pushing to rip up his organisation's agreement with the Tate
  
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• 1,000 Leagues Under The Sea: A Cyborg Jellyfish at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts

  02-03-2016 20:10 via artnews.com
  At Ronald Feldman Fine Arts’ booth at the Armory Show, which opened Wednesday, visitors enter an installation that looks like a cross between a club and a 13-year-old boy’s lava-lamp-lit bedroom but is actually made to resemble a disphotic zone, … Read More
  
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• Rodents, Sitcoms, and Seven Minutes In Heaven: At The Spring/Break Art Show

  02-03-2016 19:32 via artnews.com
  The fifth edition of the “curator-driven” Spring/Break Art Show, which runs through March 7, returned this year to Skylight at Moynihan Station, inside the James A. Farley Post Office on 8th Ave. With a building this old (the post office was built … Read More
  
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• Adele sees the light in Kusama’s Infinity Room

  02-03-2016 18:51
  
  It is a match made in social media heaven. The British pop sensation Adele, the world’s most popular recording artist, was recently filmed singing inside an installation by Yayoi Kusama, the world’s most popular visual artist. Adele performed her song When We Were Young inside Kusama’s Infinity Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013) at the Broad in Los Angeles. The footage became the backdrop for her performance at the Brit Awards on 24 February, where the
  
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• Art world’s billionaires are slightly less rich

  02-03-2016 18:25
  
  Forbes released its “rich list” on Wednesday, ranking the world’s wealthiest people, and as usual there are a number of names familiar to those in the art world. While many of these billionaires’ personal fortunes may have taken a hit because of a shaky global economy, the overall roll call has not changed much.
  Among the top 20 billionaires who are involved in the arts, we see many of the same figures as last year: Bill Gates (#1, with a net worth of $75bn, down from $7
  
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• New books reveal Donald Judd’s words and ideas

  02-03-2016 18:00
  
  More than 40 rare and unpublished texts by the artist Donald Judd will be given new life in a book due to be released in October. Donald Judd: Writings includes never-before-seen letters, college papers and hundreds of unpublished notes alongside Judd’s most famous essays, such as Una Stanza Per Panza, his polemic against the Italian collector, Giuseppe Panza.The Judd Foundation hopes the book will increase interest in Judd as a critic and writer ahead of his retrospective at the Museum o
  
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• Submerged: startling underwater art points up refugee crisis

  02-03-2016 17:50
  
  A museum with a difference opened yesterday (1 March), under the sea off the coast of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. The UK-born artist Jason deCaires Taylor has created a cast of figures located fourteen metres under the Atlantic Ocean. The main installation in the so-called Museo Atlantico shows 35 figures walking towards a gate, or portal to another world (Rubicon). Another work, The Raft of Lampedusa, is “a harrowing depiction of the ongoing humanitarian crisis, referencin
  
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• The Painter of Modern Life: Kerry James Marshall Aims to Get More Images of Black Figures into Museums

  02-03-2016 16:15 via artnews.com
  The artist will be the subject of major traveling retrospective this year Read More
  
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• ‘Jessi Reaves & Sophie Stone: How to Remove Stains’ at Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles

  02-03-2016 15:15 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: Christie’s Sues Mugrabi Edition

  02-03-2016 14:28 via artnews.com
  CHRISTIE’S SUES MUGRABIChristie’s is suing art investor Jose Mugrabi for missing his last two payments on a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting he bought that were due on January 4 and February 15. [New York Post]ADDITIONSDia Art Foundation has added James Murdoch and … Read More
  
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• Major restoration projects mark 50th anniversary of Venice and Florence floods

  02-03-2016 14:06
  
  To mark the 50th anniversary of the great Venice and Florence floods in November 1966, two US conservation organisations are collaborating on major art restoration projects in the two Italian cities.
  The non-profit groups, Save Venice and Friends of Florence, will work together this year to restore a Tuscan egg-tempera painting on panel by the Master of Badia a Isola from 1315; a Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels in the Galleria Palazzo Cini in Venice; and to conserve 48 drawings by Giova
  
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• Orlando, Barbican, classical review: Variegated beauty of the score is brilliantly brought out

  02-03-2016 13:15
  
  Davies' hero traverses a kaleidoscopic series of derangements, each with its own vividly-characterised musical colouring
  
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• Botticelli Reimagined review – Venus in the gutter

  02-03-2016 10:00
  
  Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  By submerging Botticelli and his Venus in the trashy pool of pop and tourist culture they have inspired, this landmark show elevates them bothA Dolce and Gabbana dress covered with prints of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, a clip of Uma Thurman emerging from a shell in The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, graffiti art, Bulgari, a golden Italian racing car wheel that quotes a Botticelli brooch. I have wandered into some wonderland suspended between beauty a
  
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• Georgia O'Keeffe at Tate Modern: Exhibition to challenge 'gendered and outdated' readings of flowers as vaginas

  02-03-2016 09:49
  
  Photographer Alfred Stieglitz first put forward the theory that the bold paintings depicted female genitalia in 1919
  
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• Celebrating the junkyard genius of Nairobi's informal workers – in pictures

  02-03-2016 08:00
  
  Tahir Carl Karmali’s intricate collages are a tribute to the city’s scrap entrepreneurs and ‘reclamation artists’Continue reading...
  
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• Sneak peek inside the Met Breuer

  02-03-2016 05:41
  
  The Breuer building is back in business. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened the doors of the Met Breuer to eager press today, 1 March, ahead of its official public debut on 18 March. “We treated the building as a work of art in conservation,” the museum’s director Thomas Campbell said in his welcoming remarks. “We have cleaned the concrete…[and] scraped out chewing gum fr om the holes in the walls.”  The Brutalist building on Madison Aven
  
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• ADAA Art Show Kicks Off Armory Week With Sales of Sol LeWitt Folding Screens, Nick Mauss Mirrors

  02-03-2016 02:32 via artnews.com
  As the ceremonial starting bell for Armory Week in New York, the ADAA Art Show brought 72 galleries to the Upper East Side’s Park Avenue Armory, including first-time participants such as Hauser & Wirth and Tilton Gallery.The Art Show skews … Read More
  
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• When Titian Met Tuymans: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Elegantly Occupies the Whitney’s Breuer Building

  02-03-2016 00:26 via artnews.com
  Its signature opening show, ‘Unfinished,’ has 500 years of art and thrums with energy but flags as it nears the contemporary Read More
  
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