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• What to see during Asia Week in New York

  08-03-2016 22:00
  
  Since 2009, New York’s Asian art dealers, specialists and curators have banded together to stage shows and sales across the city. Here is our selection of some of the displays that should not be missed by visitors this week:Asia 100Throughout 2016, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  The Met celebrated 100 years of collecting and exhibiting Asian art in 2015 and a full roster of programming that shows off the strength of its Asian art department continues into this year. Among the offerings on sho
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: Peer unveils its plans for spring, including the inaugural ‘Hoxton Fourth Plinth’ commission by Chris Ofili

  08-03-2016 22:00
  
  With so many of today’s art spaces being moveable feasts—either chasing the market or squeezed out by rocketing rents—all credit to pioneering arts charity Peer for remaining determinedly on Hoxton Street in east London. Peer should also be credited for enhancing its direct surroundings with two major new permanent public commissions situated on and around the two Hoxton Street shop fronts that the 20-year-old charity has occupied since 2002.One of these is an installation by
  
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• Picasso’s dealer Paul Rosenberg celebrated in show based on granddaughter’s book

  08-03-2016 22:00
  
  An exhibition about the influential art dealer Paul Rosenberg (1881-1959), who represented Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Léger among others, will feature paintings that passed through his hands. Due to open in Liège, Belgium, in September, it will then travel to the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
  The French journalist Anne Sinclair, who is Rosenberg’s granddaughter, has endorsed the exhibition at the revamped Musée de la Boverie (22 September-29 January). Titled 21 rue La B
  
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• Marc-Olivier Wahler announced as the next director of Broad MSU

  08-03-2016 22:00
  
  Since the death of its founding director Michael Rush in March 2015, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (Broad MSU) in East Lansing—which opened in 2012 and is named after the art world power couple who donated $28m to build the institution—has operated without a director. The museum has finally found someone to fill his impressive shoes: the Swiss contemporary art curator Marc-Olivier Wahler, who will take up the reins on 1 July.“Marc-Olivier Wahler’s experience with i
  
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• It’s official: art sales fell in 2015

  08-03-2016 22:00
  
  Clare McAndrew’s annual report on the art market, which has become the go-to data source for art market statistics, records a 7% fall in global fine art sales to $63.8bn in 2015 (2014: $68.2bn). The report, produced for the Tefaf art fair that opens to VIPs on Thursday, takes into account public auction sales and, via an anonymous online survey sent to around 6,000 dealers globally, the more hidden side of the art market. The data isn’t complete—an average 14% of dealers respo
  
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• Bede’s World medieval museum could re-open after funding meltdown

  08-03-2016 22:00
  
  A major heritage attraction in the north of England could be saved after closing in February due to a financial crisis. Bede’s World, the Anglo-Saxon site in Church Bank, Jarrow, was shut down due to “a lack of funds” according to the trustees.
  The site includes an 11-acre Anglo-Saxon farm and museum dedicated to the Venerable Bede, a scholar born in 673AD who wrote extensively about the Bible.The writer Melvyn Bragg told The Independent newspaper that “the decision to c
  
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• Adrian Cheng Joins Board of Directors at Public Art Fund

  08-03-2016 21:20 via artnews.com
  New York–based nonprofit Public Art Fund announced today that Chinese billionaire Adrian Cheng has joined its board of directors, which also includes Ugo Rondinone and Rob Pruitt. Despite holding a number of positions in the art world, including both the Tate’s … Read More
  
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• Jesse Jones Will Represent Ireland at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  08-03-2016 20:49 via artnews.com
  Ireland’s Minister of State announced earlier today that Jesse Jones will represent the nation in the 2017 Venice Biennale. Jones will be collaborating with fellow Irish theatre actress Olwen Fouéré in a performance piece that explores the idea of “national representation at … Read More
  
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• Royal Academy's Giorgione exhibition is artistic puzzle

  08-03-2016 19:40
  
  Most of the paintings in the collection have been hailed as the work of the 16th-century Venetian genius and then debunkedAn exhibition opening this week at the Royal Academy represents centuries of academic punch-ups over attributions to the puzzling 16th-century Venetian genius, Giorgione. Most of the paintings in the exhibition, which includes loans from the royal collection, Italy and the United States, have been hailed and then debunked as his genuine works, some of them several times over.
  
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• 'Sicily - Culture and Conquest' at the British Museum: How a little kingdom made a huge multicultural impact

  08-03-2016 18:58
  
  ​As the British Museum brings the artistic riches of Sicily to show in London, Boyd Tonkin looks at how a stream of overlords, from early Greeks and Arabs to Normans and – eventually – Italians, has left a beautiful if sometimes brutal legacy
  
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• Cambodia’s Film Gears Up

  08-03-2016 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Cinema in Cambodia has suffered a turbulent history, as the country went from the golden age of films in the 1960s headlong into the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, under which entertainment and arts were dismantled. In the 1980s and 1990s, the industry started making a gradual, slow comeback”
  
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• Have The Arts Been Strangled By The Non-Profit Model?

  08-03-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Issues of equity in funding, leadership and audiences by race, gender, disability, etc. have manifested differently in different disciplines, but important questions linger on whether the growth of the nonprofit sector has brought with it a growth of inequality.”
  
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• Inside The Battle For Picasso’s Multi-Billion Estate

  08-03-2016 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Picasso died, 43 years ago at the age of 91, he left an astounding number of works—more than 45,000 in all. (“We’d have to rent the Empire State Building to house all the works,” Claude Picasso said when the inventory was completed.) Picasso did not leave a will.
  
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• When The Man Went All ‘Reefer Madness’ On Dungeons And Dragons

  08-03-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These days your life isn’t complete if you aren’t part of a role-playing gaming group, but it wasn’t that long ago that playing Dungeons & Dragons was seen as a surefire ticket to madness and damnation.”
  
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• Yehudi Menuhin's centenary year: A maestro with many strings to his bow

  08-03-2016 17:44
  
  As the musical world celebrates Yehudi Menuhin, Jessica Duchen reviews his legacy and explains why he is remembered as far more than a violinist of extraordinary talent
  
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• The Composer: Mary Heilmann’s Rhymthic Abstractions Find Their Place in the Sun

  08-03-2016 17:43 via artnews.com
  Some little girls want to be movie stars, some long to be prima ballerinas. Not Mary Heilmann. As a child, she prayed for sainthood. “I used to dream that I was thrown to lions in the Coliseum,” said the artist. … Read More
  
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• Stan Douglas Wins the 2016 Hasselblad Foundation International Photography Award

  08-03-2016 17:08 via artnews.com
  The Hasselblad Foundation announced today that Canadian artist Stan Douglas has been awarded the 2016 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. As part of his prize, Douglas will receive 1,000,000 Swedish krona (about $156,000).The award will be bestowed in Gothenburg, Sweden, … Read More
  
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• Benin bronze row: Cambridge college removes cockerel

  08-03-2016 17:04
  
  University agrees that statue should be taken down following calls from students for it to be repatriatedA controversial bronze cockerel that was looted from Africa in the 19th century and has long stood in the hall of a Cambridge college has been removed following calls from students for it to be repatriated.The university agreed on Tuesday that the statue, one of the Benin bronzes, should be taken down from the hall in Jesus College and that discussions should get under way to decide its futur
  
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• Creative Time’s 2016 Gala Will Honor Craig Robins and Rirkrit Tiravanija

  08-03-2016 17:03 via artnews.com
  Creative Time, the New York–based nonprofit that champions public art, announced today that its spring gala on April 28 will honor Craig Robins, a collector and cofounder of the Design Miami fair, and artist Rirkrit Tiravanija. Robins has been a … Read More
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court Declines Appeal Of Apple Ebook Price Fixing Case

  08-03-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Supreme Court on Monday refused to review an appeals court’s determination that Apple had conspired with book publishers to raise the prices of digital books. The court’s order, which following custom was issued without any accompanying explanation, puts into effect a $450 million settlement that Apple had agreed to pay if it lost the case.”
  
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• In the Age of Giorgione review – defiant, forgotten face of Renaissance art

  08-03-2016 16:50
  
  Royal Academy of Arts, London
  Giorgione’s reputation was eclipsed by Titian, but this early avant garde icon revolutionised the Renaissance with his raw portrayals of human weaknessThe most shocking work of art on show in London right now is a painting that’s more than 500 years old. A woman poses behind a stone parapet in golden Venetian light. She points at herself. In her hand is a banner that reads “Col Tempo” – with time. Her clothes are ragged and so is she. T
  
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• Here’s a Channel That Lets You View Art in Quite a Bit of Detail on Your Television

  08-03-2016 16:42 via artnews.com
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• Why ‘Downton Abbey’ Became An American Cultural Phenomenon

  08-03-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If the number of homages and parodies a TV show inspires are a reflection of its impact – and I would argue they are – you don’t have to look far to see how much the ongoing saga of Carson & Co. mattered. … Downton was so big, even LeBron watched it. But why? What was it about this show that gave it such cultural stickiness and kept so many tuning in, every January, for more than half a decade?”
  
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• Digital Content Editor, Basel

  08-03-2016 15:58
  Art Basel is looking for a dynamic personality to join our Basel-based Marketing & Communications department asDigital Content EditorYour role will be to write and/or edit copy for artbasel.com and our other digital platforms. In addition, you'll be tasked with helping manage day-to-day digital content operations, including our social media channels and e-mail newsletters.
  Accountabilities:-Writing, editing and updating content for Art Basel's digital channels to ensure quality and consisten
  
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• The Met Breuer’s Opening Show Is Actually Terrific

  08-03-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peter Schjeldahl: “Most critical responses so far to ‘Unfinished’ … seethe with unstated resentments. The writers quibble with a theme that tracks changing notions of ‘finish’ through almost seven centuries of Western art … They find it a gauzy sort of curatorial idea – which it is, but with one overriding, tremendous virtue: calling attention to visual facts.”
  
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• When Donald Trump Produced A Broadway Show

  08-03-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The show was a flop, and its closing brought an abrupt end to Mr. Trump’s career as a Broadway producer. But his approach to producing … foreshadowed his approach to other businesses.”
  
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• Are Women Still Being Discriminated Against In Orchestras?

  08-03-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While string sections are largely gender-balanced, the same could not be said for the woodwind, brass and percussion players. Women were also under-represented in principal roles. … [BBC] Radio 3’s Tom Service looked into the issues behind the statistics.” (audio)
  
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• Morning Links: Estate of Pablo Picasso Edition

  08-03-2016 14:51 via artnews.com
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• Berlioz Manuscript Of ‘Les Troyens’ Rediscovered After 100 Years

  08-03-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Considered lost for more than a century, the manuscript of the piano-vocal score for Berlioz’s Les Troyens has just been acquired by the National Library of France. Personally transcribed by the composer, it is the most complete version of the opera known today.” (in French; includes audio)
  
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• Washington Ballet Chooses Its New Artistic Director

  08-03-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Julie Kent, one of the most celebrated American ballerinas of her generation, who retired from the stage last summer after a 29-year career at American Ballet Theatre, has been appointed the Washington Ballet’s new artistic director, the company announced Monday.”
  
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• Philipp Kaiser Will Curate Switzerland’s Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  08-03-2016 14:29 via artnews.com
  Philipp Kaiser, the former director of the the Museum Ludwig in Cologne who is now an independent curator and critic in Los Angeles, has been tapped to organize the Swiss pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale. The Swiss Arts Council … Read More
  
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• When Shakespeare’s Father Saved Paintings From Henry VIII

  08-03-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “William Shakespeare’s father has been credited with saving priceless paintings that were hidden in an historic chapel in Stratford-upon-Avon. John Shakespeare was Bailiff of the town during the Reformation under King Henry VIII, and was ordered to remove them from the Guild Chapel.” (video)
  
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• The Cross-Dressing Nobleman Who May Have Been Shakespeare’s Lover

  08-03-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Little is known about the pair’s friendship, but it has been speculated that they had an affair during 1592 and 1593, when Shakespeare left a plague-ravaged London and began writing longform poetry and sonnets.”
  
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• China Bans Depictions Of Gay People On TV And Web Video

  08-03-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Chinese censors have released new regulations for content that ‘exaggerates the dark side of society’ and now deem homosexuality, extramarital affairs, one night stands and underage relationships as illegal on screen. Last week the Chinese government pulled a popular drama, Addicted, from being streamed on Chinese websites as it follows two men in gay relationships, causing uproar among the show’s millions of viewers.”
  
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• What I Wish I’d Read As A Gay Teenager

  08-03-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We asked some of today’s most powerful voices in LGBTQ literature to create a list of books they wanted to read as teens. While there are some recurring titles – who hasn’t had their world rocked by Audre Lorde? – most of the books are quite different from one another.”
  
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• Antony Gormley backs campaign to create affordable studios across London

  08-03-2016 12:50
  
  The London-based artist Anthony Gormley opened up his cavernous David Chipperfield-designed King’s Cross studio last night (7 March) to a lively gathering that included property developers, architects, entrepreneurs and local council officers to launch Studiomakers, an initiative to help tackle London’s increasingly chronic shortage of affordable creative space.Gormley’s guests, which included Munira Mirza, London’s deputy mayor for education and culture and Justine Simo
  
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• Which star architect will be first to use blackest of black material?

  08-03-2016 11:06
  
  The British company developing the uses of a super black, light absorbent material called Vantablack S-VIS is working with leading architects as well as the British artist Anish Kapoor.
   
  The founder and chief technology officer of Surrey NanoSystems, Ben Jensen, says that the company is working with “some large and well respected global architects,” and that the coating is already available for “suitable applications”. He declined to name the architects involved &l
  
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• Portland Collection opens to public for first time with rarely seen Michelangelo drawing

  08-03-2016 11:04
  
  A Michelangelo drawing which was last exhibited in 1960 will be the centrepiece of the Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire, which opens on 20 March to display the art of the Dukes of Portland. The £7m gallery is the most ambitious privately-funded building to showcase an English aristocratic collection since the Second World War.The Harley Gallery, on the Welbeck estate (south-east of Sheffield), has been built on a site once used for training racehorses. Designed by the London architect Hu
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.07.16

  08-03-2016 08:26 via feedproxy.google.com
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• Ageing party girls and pint-sized beauty queens – in pictures

  08-03-2016 08:00
  
  Close to 40 when she first picked up a camera, photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon brings a world-wise eye to the everyday weirdness of American life Continue reading...
  
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