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• Intelligent Interest in American ‘Moderns’: An Armory Show Competitor Arises, in 1916

  04-03-2016 23:23 via artnews.com
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• L.A. Habitat: Catherine Opie

  04-03-2016 22:53 via artnews.com
  A talk with Opie in her backyard studio about the state of photography and the city of Los Angeles Read More
  
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• Van Hanos at Rowhouse Project, Selected by Joshua Abelow

  04-03-2016 22:44 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today's show is selected by Joshua Abelow Read More
  
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• The Armory Show review – a more thoughtful, less cash-and-carry art week

  04-03-2016 22:04
  
  The market may have cooled but there’s still plenty to see at New York’s art fairs – not least a concerted turnout for African art at the Armory and a grown-up, but still fresh, IndependentWhat goes up must come down – you just have to wait long enough. After a solid decade of acceleration to hyper-speed, the go-go market for contemporary art is finally slowing down. This winter, after torrid results at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in London (plus continued bloodl
  
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• Susan Smith at Junior Projects

  04-03-2016 20:30 via artnews.com
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• MCH Group, Art Basel’s Parent Company, ‘Will Build a New Portfolio of Leading Regional Art Fairs’

  04-03-2016 19:39 via artnews.com
  MCH Group, the Swiss expo conglomerate, announced in a press release today that it will be increasing its involvement in the international art market, building “a new portfolio of leading regional art fairs,” a strategy that could involve creating new fairs or partnering with existing … Read More
  
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• Peak art sales reached as slump sees Matisse and Picasso paintings fall in price

  04-03-2016 19:33
  
  A run of disappointing sales has forced the leading auction houses to take radical action
  
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• At BAM’s Migrating Forms Film Festival, Internet-Obsessed Millennials and War-Torn Countries Collide

  04-03-2016 19:30 via artnews.com
  A look at the seventh edition of the annual showcase for video and experimental film Read More
  
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• ‘The Dress’, One Year Later: Scientists Know More About Why People See Different Colors In It – And Now There’s ‘The Jacket’

  04-03-2016 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some factors evidently make no difference (genetics), while certain factors you’d think were entirely irrelevant do seem to correlate. And researchers have finally found another image for which people’s color perceptions vary wildly; you can take an online test and help with the research.
  
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• When Aztecs Made Catholic Icons Out Of Feathers

  04-03-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Following their takeover, the Spanish encouraged amantecas, or feather artists, to continue their work … Crafted carefully with glue from orchid bulbs, feather art remained very much connected to precolonial history, even as the indigenous art was forcibly altered into a new fusion between the Old World and the New.”
  
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• ‘You Can Touch It, Too’: Delson Uchôa’s ‘Inhabited Painting’ at the Armory Show

  04-03-2016 17:57 via artnews.com
  Of the 30 or so paintings involving textiles that I saw at this year’s Armory Show, there was one very distinct from the rest—Delson Uchôa’s Inhabited Painting (2016). “You can touch it, too,” the representative from Curitiba, Brazil’s SIM Galeria, Simões de Assis, … Read More
  
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• Tamuna Sirbiladze, Abstract Painter Who Recently Made New York Debut, Dies at 45

  04-03-2016 17:30 via artnews.com
  Tamuna Sirbiladze, whose brushy paintings hovered between figuration and abstraction, and who had her first New York solo show in August, died in Vienna on Wednesday of cancer-related causes. She was 45.Though Sirbiladze had been showing for a while in … Read More
  
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• Britain’s Class System Affects Even Actors’ Pay

  04-03-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “New research has claimed there is a ‘class ceiling’ in British performing arts which deters working-class actors and means they are paid less than their middle-class contemporaries.”
  
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• Giorgione the tragic lover and Sarah Lucas's plaster parts – the week in art

  04-03-2016 16:35
  
  The Royal Academy celebrates a Renaissance great, Patti Smith opens up about photography, plus let’s all move to Palm Springs – all in your weekly art dispatchIn the Age of Giorgione
  The Renaissance artist Giorgione was a lutist, a lover and a tragic hero. He played his lute under Venetian balconies and spent his nights in Venetian bedrooms until he caught the plague from one of his many lovers. That’s the story told by Vasari in The Lives of the Artists, published in 1550, whi
  
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• More Debate Over Casting Zoe Saldana As Nina Simone

  04-03-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A debate over whether Zoe Saldana is the right actress to star in a biopic of Nina Simone, the black singer, pianist and civil rights activist, has been reignited after a poster and trailer of the movie were unveiled online this week and a message from a Twitter account belonging to representatives of Ms. Simone’s estate attacked the actress.”
  
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• Art Basel’s owners look to expand business with regional fairs

  04-03-2016 16:00
  
  The Basel-based MCH Group, which owns the Art Basel franchise, has announced plans to expand its portfolio and buy a stake in some existing regional art fairs run by other organisers. The group is currently in discussions with SME London, which manages Art16 in London, Hong Kong’s Art Central and Sydney Contemporary, and Angus Montgomery, whose roster includes the India Art Fair, Istanbul’s Art International and Photo Shanghai, among other organisers. (MCH acquired a majority stake
  
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• Damien Hirst and Picasso: coming soon to a National Gallery near you?

  04-03-2016 15:46
  
  Gabriele Finaldi is right. The Tate shouldn’t have exclusive access to 20th-century art. It’s time to end these closed-minded historical art warsThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, is arguably the world’s greatest gallery. It is definitely the most complete. You can look at art by El Greco and Rembrandt and then, for comparison, see paintings by Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns. You can admire ancient Egyptian architecture and the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, medieval a
  
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• ‘What Sustains this Digital World?’: Julian Charrière on his Man-Made Rocks at the Armory Show

  04-03-2016 15:42 via artnews.com
  Five glass cabinets, each containing a large molten rock, occupy Dittrich and Schlechtriem’s corner booth at the Armory Show. The idiosyncratic display looks out of place beside neighbouring canvases, like it was yanked straight out of the Museum of Natural … Read More
  
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• The First-Ever Worldwide Dance Critic Started Out As A Eurhythmics Instructor

  04-03-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  But by the time she was 30, in 1907, she had launched a career that would take her to Bali and Java, India and Ceylon, and North Africa, writing about the dance she found for London publications from Ballet toThe Daily Telegraph.
  
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• Scientists May Just Have Found Banksy (Whose Lawyers Are Not Happy)

  04-03-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Using a technique called “geographic profiling” which was pioneered by criminologists, “researchers [studied] a list of Banksy artwork locations in London and Bristol, [and] they said that the resulting ‘geoprofile’ was a good match for an obvious candidate.”
  
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• Amazon Customers In Review War Over The Book Of Mormon (The Real One)

  04-03-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘WARNING: May cause drowsiness and occasional eye-rolling. Go watch the musical instead,’ said one reviewer. A five-star fan, however, said that ‘it was translated by the Gift and Power of God, and is the record of a people who are a branch of the tribe of Israel who had Prophets in their day who preached about Christ. Read it and pray about its contents.'”
  
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• French Police Seize Old Master Painting From Prince Of Liechtenstein

  04-03-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A Paris judge seized on Tuesday a painting attributed to the artist Lucas Cranach the Elder from 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.”
  
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• Morning Links: Banksy’s Identity Revealed Edition

  04-03-2016 14:38 via artnews.com
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• Phyllida Barlow Will Rep Britain at 2017 Venice Biennale

  04-03-2016 14:31 via artnews.com
  The 2015 Venice Biennale closed just a few months ago, but many countries are already selecting the artists who will take over their pavilions for the 2017 edition, and today the British Council, which administers the British Pavilion in Venice, announced … Read More
  
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• One Of The Chinese Kids At The Oscars Tells What It’s Like To Be The Butt Of The Joke

  04-03-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By the time they made it back to the dressing room, Estie’s older sister had already texted them a screenshot of the flurry of angry Twitter reactions that were starting to pop up. She was so upset on behalf of her little sister that she was shaking.”
  
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• Forest Whitaker’s Broadway Debut Closes (Very) Early

  04-03-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The revival [of Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie], which had its opening night on Feb. 25, will close on March 27, after a total of 55 performances, including previews. It had been scheduled to run through June 12.”
  
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• Roll up, roll up! The Big Draw auction is about to begin

  04-03-2016 13:47
  
  The Big Draw, an annual UK-wide event that gets thousands of people, young and old, to pick up a pencil, pen or paintbrush, has high hopes for a charity's auction starting next week. Hosted by Christie's, a live auction of works by leading artists will be held in London on 10 March, followed by an online auction (10–24 March). The artists who have donated works in aid of the good cause include David Hockney, who is a patron of the event that bills itself as the world's largest festival of
  
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• Give Me A Break: Anne Midgette On Classical Stars Who Take Sabbaticals

  04-03-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pierre-Laurent Aimard did it quietly. Evgeny Kissin did it in a casual remark to a presenter. Piotr Anderszewski, evidently, has done it in an interview with the website Humans of New York … What’s ‘it?’ Time off. Stepping off the treadmill.”
  
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• Missing Hong Kong Booksellers Turn Up – On Mainland Chinese TV, Confessing

  04-03-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Five booksellers who disappeared from Hong Kong last year have re-surfaced in detention in mainland China. They appeared in interviews on TV in which they confessed to crimes and ‘mistakes’.”
  
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• Massive snails, a disco panther, the letter P, a man's face: we review anything

  04-03-2016 13:24
  
  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 Related: Contactless cards, a small dinosaur, bonsai trees, a bread horse: we review anythingRelated: Flying ant day, train art, a machine that makes gorillas, the automated checkout voice – we review anythingContinue reading...
  
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• Phyllida Barlow to represent Britain at 2017 Venice Biennale

  04-03-2016 12:49
  
  Sculptor expresses astonishment after being selected as artist for British Pavilion at renowned international art exhibitionThe sculptor Phyllida Barlow, whose towering installations at Tate Britain were described as “mad and madly ambitious” by the Guardian critic Adrian Searle, is to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale next year.Barlow’s colossal sculptures are made of commonplace materials, often recycled timber, plywood, cardboard and plaster. When in 2014 she filled t
  
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• Love Conquers It All by Jane Shussa

  04-03-2016 12:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So I have heard that,
  Love conquers it all,
  Love, the most powerful thing on earth,
  So they say, when there’s love,
  Nothing can come between.I beg to differ,
  Not because I don’t believe in love. 
  Or the magnificent power it holds,
  But why is it defeated by less powerful things?Just yesterday they broke up,
  Broke each other’s heart into pieces, why you ask?Because their religion wasn’t a match, 
  And the love they had couldn’t conquer that,
  And here I though
  
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• Phyllida Barlow to represent Britain at Venice Biennale

  04-03-2016 11:54
  
  The sculptor Phyllida Barlow will represent Britain at the 57th Venice Biennale next year (13 May-26 November 2017), the British Council announced today, 4 March. Barlow has long been respected among British artists, having taught at London’s Slade School of Fine Art for more than 40 years. However, she has come to international prominence relatively late in her career. Recent shows include one last summer at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, which she transformed with typically larg
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.03.16

  04-03-2016 09:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Celebrating the future
  Had a marvelous time last weekend at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music, a school just 10 years old at Gettysburg College … read more
  AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-03-03“Unfinished” Business: Met Breuer Engulfed by a Dark Cloud of Unknowing
  What a disappointment! The debut installation at the Met Breuer, unveiled to the press on Tuesday (and to the general public on Mar. 18), fell short of the expectations raised by the Metropolitan Museum its
  
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• How to handle fakes, copyright and catalogues raisonées: Berlin institute offers tips for artists’ estates

  04-03-2016 06:44
  
  Over the past 25 years, there has been an explosion in the number of artists’ estates. But, except for catalogue raisonées, 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 program
  
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• Dallas Museum of Art Acquires a True Rarity: a Jackson Pollock Sculpture

  04-03-2016 04:00 via artnews.com
  The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the acquisition of a Jackson Pollock sculpture created only weeks before the artist’s death. According to the DMA, Untitled (1956) is one of only six Pollock sculptures in existence, five of which are held in private … Read More
  
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