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• Soaring New NY Train Station Is Eye-Dropping (And Yes, A Boondoggle)

  03-03-2016 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At first blush, Mr. Calatrava’s architecture can almost — almost — make you forget what an epic boondoggle the whole thing has been. That virgin view, standing inside the Oculus and gazing up, is a jaw-dropper.”
  
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• An Uncertain Start For The New Met Breuer

  03-03-2016 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Is the Met Breuer a new museum, or an extension of an old one? Does the Met Breuer do what the Met does best? It’s too soon for me to say – but I am not as confident as I’d wish that this new pavilion has the same ambitions and sympathies as the mothership.”
  
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• There’s A Tradition Of Artists Skewering Politicians. So Where’s The Trump Art?

  03-03-2016 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Surely liberal and leftwing artists won’t be able to resist pointing out the monsterish qualities of Trump? We have, after all, already had the appearance of HP Lovecraft’s terrifying monster Cthulhu, who is apparently running for office, in a pulp-horror parody of America’s nightmare scenario.”
  
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• The national roots of Viennese Actionism

  03-03-2016 22:00
  The Art Newspaper: What influence did Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka and others have on the Actionists?
  Hermann Nitsch: After the stagnancy of art in the interwar period and the reign of fascism, there was barely any avant-garde art. There was a vacuum where nothing was happening. So we were indeed influenced by the radical nature of Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Gerstl, Freud, Wittgenstein, Trakl, and very much by the Second Viennese School—Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. The
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Stuart Brisley, the 82-year-old durational marathon man

  03-03-2016 22:00
  
  All salutations and respect to Stuart Brisley! Never mind that he is now in his 83rd year, the only concession that this pioneer of the most physically and mentally demanding durational performances seems to have made, is to break up his new 24-hour live marathon into four still-gruelling six hour chunks. These started on Wednesday (2 March) at the David Roberts Art Foundation Studio and continue daily from 12pm for the rest of this week, ending at 6pm on Saturday. The the artist—who perf
  
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• Scholarly debate will be stifled after Knoedler

  03-03-2016 22:00
  
  The case against the now-defunct Knoedler gallery and its former director Ann Freedman, accused of knowingly selling inauthentic works by some of the greatest Abstract Expressionist painters, has riveted the New York art world. It has also ensnared leading art historians—many of whom gave testimony during the trial or were cited in court papers—who had been asked to give, or who were said to have given, their opinion on the works that turned out to be fakes.
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• Our picks from the Independent fair

  03-03-2016 22:00
  
  Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (6th Floor, #4)The Swedish-born, Berlin-based Karl Holmqvist’s sprawling installation with Gavin Brown may have stolen the show at Independent. The text-based works climb up the wall surrounded by similar wallpaper, a collaboration with the New York-based Japanese artist Ei Arakawa. Fluorescents fr om the sculptures make the whole thing feel like a philosophical construction site and, being predominantly black and white, the stand finds a symbiosis with the
  
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• Long battle rages over Franz West’s estate

  03-03-2016 22:00
  
  UPDATE: After this article went to press, Franz West's widow, the artist Tamuna Sirbiladze, died of cancer, aged 45.
  Significant change is afoot in the estate of the Austrian sculptor Franz West, which has been mired in legal turmoil since the artist’s death in 2012.The disputes stem largely from the fact that, five days before his death, the artist established the Franz West Private Foundation, based in Vienna. The decision diverted the royalties, copyrights and assets that would have go
  
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• How to handle fakes, copyright and catalogues raisonnés: Berlin institute offers tips for artists’ estates

  03-03-2016 22:00
  
  Over the past 25 years, there has been an explosion in the number of artists’ estates. But, except for catalogues raisonnés, there has been very little academic research on the subject. The Institute for Artists’ Estates, which launches this month in Berlin and is the first organisation of its kind in Europe, hopes to change this by providing training and managerial support to heirs as well as living artists. The non-profit organisation also plans to launch a doctorate progra
  
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• How an art forger avoided jail

  03-03-2016 22:00
  Un Vrai Faussaire (a real faker) is the title of a new French documentary by Jean-Luc Leon about the art forger Guy Ribes, who made paintings modeled on works by Picasso, Chagall and Matisse, among others, and later avoided a prison sentence by collaborating with police to identify his fakes in sale catalogues.
  
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• French police seize painting attributed to Cranach, owned by the Prince of Liechtenstein

  03-03-2016 22:00
  
  A Paris judge seized on Tuesday a painting attributed to the artist Lucas Cranach the Elder fr om an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence after doubts were raised about its authenticity. Part of the Prince of Liechtenstein’s collection, the work is to be examined by experts.Eric Morain, a lawyer for the Prince, told the French press he was “surprised” by the seizure, which was made without warning “despite the Prince’s long and close collaboration with France’s lead
  
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• Bangladesh puts exposure before sales to get itself on art market map

  03-03-2016 22:00
  The word “nascent” might have been coined for Dhaka’s art market. The capital of Bangladesh is on virtually no one’s radar as a place to buy art. Local collectors pay a hefty 120% tax on art imports, the handful of local galleries in the country have no international profile, and only a few Bangladeshi artists are known to the outside world. Only the Bengal Art Lounge, part of a non-profit foundation, exhibits outside the country, at the India Art Fair.Even so, at the Dh
  
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• Thanks to Kickstarter, Tania Bruguera Will Tell You a Secret for $1,000

  03-03-2016 21:55 via artnews.com
  If you’ve ever had the burning desire to Skype Tania Bruguera about a new project you’re working on, or blame Tania Bruguera for something you’ve done, or have Tania Bruguera pass along a message to somebody in Cuba, now’s your chance: … Read More
  
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• ‘There’s No Way We Could Do This at a Normal Fair’: Opening Day at Independent

  03-03-2016 21:42 via artnews.com
  After five years in Chelsea, Independent—a younger alternative to the other main fairs this week, the Armory Show and the ADAA Art Show—migrated downtown for its 2016 edition. The fair’s opening on Thursday, on four floors of Spring Studios, a … Read More
  
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• ‘Rodney McMillian: The Black Show’ at ICA Philadelphia

  03-03-2016 21:17 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: The Black Show, a solo show by Los Angeles–based artist Rodney McMillian, is on view at ICA in Philadelphia through August 14.
  
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• Our pick of which galleries to see at the Armory Show

  03-03-2016 21:00
  
  Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Pier 94, 901)On Wednesday, Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after a year on the International Space Station. Meanwhile, on Planet Art, visitors to New York’s Armory Show at Piers 92 and 94 can travel to the outer reaches with a space-themed stand by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. To launch things off there is Sylvie Fleury’s First Spaceship on Venus (22) (2015), a sparkly fibreglass rocket priced at $35,000.
  Galerie Nordenhake (Pier 94, 801)John Coplan
  
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• Losing Yourself In The Cloud – And Getting Yourself Back

  03-03-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The underlying concern with the Internet is not whether it will fragment our attention spans or mold our minds to the bit-work of modernity. In the end, it will likely do both. The deeper question is what can be done when we realize that we want some control over the exchange between our brains and the Web.” James McWilliams proposes an answer to that question.
  
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• Famed Hollywood Studio MiraMax Bought By Qatari Company

  03-03-2016 20:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Miramax, one of Hollywood’s best-known independent film and television labels, was acquired by the beIN Media Group, a sports and media company headed by the Qatari executive Nasser Al-Khelaifi.”
  
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• Brit Fuglevaag, textile artist: 'The walls are covered with tapestries and paintings, all jostling for space'

  03-03-2016 20:03
  
  Karen Wright meets the artist in her studio in north-west Oslo
  
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• Love Drugs: Should We Treat Suffering Caused By Romance The Way We Treat Mental Illness?

  03-03-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The FDA just approved a drug said to increase women’s libidos. Some doctors prescribe Prozac to people who want to lower or suppress their sex drives. It’s not unheard of for women to check themselves into psych wards after a nasty breakup. And there’s an entire ugly history of medical attempts to “cure” homosexuality. How to untangle the ethical knots these issues tie?
  
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• Report: Netflix Accounted For Half The Drop In TV Viewing Last Year

  03-03-2016 19:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The analyst calculated that based on an estimate that Netflix’s domestic subs streamed 29 billion hours of video last year, representing 6% of total American live-plus-7 TV viewing reported by Nielsen (up from 4.4% in 2014).”
  
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• Banksy: Geographic profiling 'proves' artist really is Robin Gunningham, according to scientists

  03-03-2016 19:12
  
  Scientists at Queen Mary University of London claim to have 'tagged' Banksy
  
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• Scenes Of Life In Ancient Egypt, Deciphered Via Crowdsourcing

  03-03-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Tales of tragedy written on papyrus that lay hidden for centuries in an Ancient Egyptian rubbish dump have been revealed after being pieced together with the help of a small army of citizen scientists. The stories range from a doctor’s report on the drowning of a 12-year-old slave girl to a rendition of the Book of Exodus in the style of a Greek tragedy.”
  
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• A Tour of the Spring/Break Art Fair

  03-03-2016 18:37 via artnews.com
  The Spring/Break Art Show has returned to New York for its fifth year, taking over the third and fourth floors of the Skylight at Moynihan Station near Penn Station. The fair differs from most Armory Week standbys in that curators, not dealers, … Read More
  
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• What’s At Stake For The Met’s New Breuer Museum

  03-03-2016 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s enormous good will and crossed fingers about the Met’s endeavor, in part because there is something deeply unsettled, and unsettling, about the project. All know that ahead lies a treacherous balancing act — creative thinking, self-examination, scholarship, good staff decisions, and sterling curatorship are all critical for the success of the Met Breuer.”
  
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• How Digital Technology Is Revolutionizing Archaeology

  03-03-2016 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As the digital and physical worlds collide, archaeology is changing—not just in practice but in scale. A huge database of Biblical-era pottery, for example, means an archaeologist in Jordan can find a shard of pottery from the Iron Age and, in minutes, query how that one fragment of clay connects to every other excavation site in the Holy Land.”
  
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• Hilma af Klint/Das Institut review – neon breasts and magical abstraction

  03-03-2016 18:04
  
  Serpentine Gallery, London
  Af Klint’s extraordinary paintings harness geometry, science and sex; as do the alchemical installations of art collective Das Institut. Together they delightBefore Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944, she stipulated that her work should not be shown until 20 years after her death. She felt the world was not yet ready for it. But it was not the forms of her art for which the world was unprepared, so much as the mystic truths it contained.Related: Hilma af
  
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• Bob Dylan’s Secret Stash Emerges

  03-03-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There have long been rumors that Bob Dylan had stashed away an extensive archive, but even die-hard Dylanologists couldn’t have dreamed up anything like the 6,000-piece private trove of his work recently acquired by a group of institutions in Oklahoma.”
  
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• How Profitable Is It To Be A Hollywood Movie Studio? Here Are The Numbers

  03-03-2016 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Four of the six major studios posted profits exceeding $1 billion for the calendar year, based on newly released numbers, though only three managed to grow their bottom lines.”
  
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• A Very Odd List Of Books That Are Banned In Prisons

  03-03-2016 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s not hard to imagine why prison officials would deny an inmate a copy of How to Beat Up Anybody. Or The Soldier of Fortune Guide to How to Disappear and Never be Found. And surely the inmate who sent away for The CIA Lockpicking Manual knew he was pressing his luck. But it’s less obvious why the authorities would ban The 4-Hour Chef, The Illustrated Bible, and The Big Book of Solitaire.”
  
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• Why Art ABout TV Shows Is Showing Up In Museums

  03-03-2016 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Museums have to change what they do and bring in more diverse audiences if they want to survive and thrive in the 21st century. Some museums are changing the look and feel of their displays, for example, making them more colorful or shortening text descriptions to appeal to a broader audience. Other times, it meant putting graffiti, comic book characters or President Underwood on display.”
  
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• Tech News Site CNET Adds New Feature: Fiction

  03-03-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Wednesday, CNET published a 5,500-word story about a female social media guru in Silicon Valley who is kidnapped by a taco truck owner. The man handcuffs the woman in the back of his truck and forces her to create a social media campaign to promote his tacos.”
  
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• Dance Beyond Ballet – Here Are The Issues

  03-03-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “No matter what sector we’re in, the big questions are the same: What does it mean to have your body under scrutiny on the job? How does it feel to be asked to represent your entire race in a company meeting? How do you find the right people to mentor and guide you?”
  
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• Amy Sillman at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

  03-03-2016 16:43 via artnews.com
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• A Tour of the 2016 Armory Show’s Contemporary Section

  03-03-2016 16:28 via artnews.com
  The Armory Show opened to press and invited guests on Wednesday at Piers 92 and 94 on Manhattan’s West Side. It runs through this Sunday. Below, a look at the action in the fair’s section for contemporary art, which takes up … Read More
  
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• Where is London's latest secret art space? Better ask your GP

  03-03-2016 16:10
  
  From Aleah Chapin’s super-sized greying nudes to Eduardo Paolozzi’s tender casts of his own hands, the art on show at the Royal College of General Practitioners is all flesh and blood and bones and sinewThe contorted body of a man is stretched out, writhing in pain (or terror), inches away from doctors sipping coffees and eating sandwiches, just off London’s Euston Road. Elisabeth Frink’s Spinning Man II is one of a series of sculptures inspired by soldiers who parachuted
  
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• Artadia Announces Finalists for the 2016 Los Angeles Artadia Awards

  03-03-2016 16:03 via artnews.com
  Artadia has announced the five finalists for its 2016 Los Angeles Artadia Awards, selected from 684 applicants in late February: Rafa Esparza, Dan Finsel, Mariah Garnett, Dylan Mira, and Nate Page.The jurors for this round were Jarret Gregory, associate curator of contemporary art … Read More
  
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• Rijksmuseum’s Director Stepping Down To Launch New Private Museum

  03-03-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The director general of the Rijksmuseum, Wim Pijbes, has decided to leave the Netherlands’ national museum of art and history this summer to run the new Museum Voorlinden, which is nearing completion on the Dutch coast.”
  
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• Sales, Reserves, and Prices at the 2016 Armory Show

  03-03-2016 15:55 via artnews.com
  The Armory Show opened to press and invited guests on Wednesday, and celebrities and collectors were out in force. There was Neil Patrick Harris! And over there, Sofia Coppola! John Waters! That guy who plays Cyclops in the X-Men movie! Art was for … Read More
  
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• Warhol demonised Nixon. Heartfield took on Hitler. Where is Trump's artistic mauling?

  03-03-2016 15:47
  
  The best political art is always viciously negative. And the monsterly qualities of Donald Trump are crying out for some hard-hitting mockery. So where are the likes of Chuck Close and Jeff Koons?One of my all-time favourite works of political art is a demonic photograph of Richard Nixon, made by Andy Warhol in 1972. Nixon, who was running against the Democrat George McGovern, has been turned a sickly shade of blueish green, made worse by a background of lurid orange. Scrawled underneath, in cap
  
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• David Mitchell's strange new tale and the art show that inspired it

  03-03-2016 15:47
  
  My Eye on You, written for the duo Kai and Sunny, stars a character from The Bone Clocks with the ability to alter time. Here, Mitchell recalls being sparked into action by seeing drawing like ‘a picture of God’s retina’A shadowy presence stalks London’s Stolen Space Gallery, hurrying from the edge of viewers’ vision, slipping across mirrors. But the blurred figure flitting among the Technicolor whirls of duo Kai and Sunny’s latest exhibition, Whirlwind of Tim
  
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• Is Onstage Violence More Shocking When It’s In A Play Written By A Woman?

  03-03-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The current London production of Sarah Kane’s Cleansed is so graphic that audience members are literally fainting in shock. The production’s director, Katie Mitchell, isn’t the only one who thinks people are reacting more strongly because the artists who put it on stage are female.
  
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• Where Dancers Keep Working After Age 60

  03-03-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Five years ago France had barely half a dozen professional dancers over 60; now they’re increasingly common.” Half a dozen of them tell how they do it.
  
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• Could This Oscar-Winning Film Help End Honor Killings In Pakistan?

  03-03-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Before traveling to the United States for the Academy Awards ceremony, Ms. Obaid-Chinoy screened A Girl in the River at the official residence of Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif … [who later] announced that his government was ‘in the process of legislating to stop such brutal and inhumane acts in the name of honor.'”
  
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• Surviving An Honor Killing: The Story Behind The Oscar-Winning Documentary Short

  03-03-2016 14:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, director of A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, explains how the subject of her film came to be shot in the face and hand, put in a bag and thrown into a river; how she survived, and what she was coerced into doing afterward.
  
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• Morning Links: Thelma Golden Edition

  03-03-2016 14:51 via artnews.com
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• Philadelphia Orchestra To Perform In Mongolia

  03-03-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Philadelphia Orchestra has seen many firsts, but few could have imagined this one. In June 2017, the well-traveled ensemble will touch down at Genghis Khan International Airport in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar for concerts that may well be attended by nomads on horseback.”
  
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• Cultural Diplomacy: America’s UN Ambassador Uses Broadway Musical To Make Point About Human Rights

  03-03-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “International diplomacy can take unexpected twists, taking in pandas and ping-pong. Now Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the UN, has added Broadway musicals to the diplomatic toolkit.”
  
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