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• Five years after Fukushima: Japan Society remembers disaster with expanded show

  10-03-2016 22:50
  
  Five years after a tsunami and earthquake devastated the northeast coast of Japan, the Japan Society in New York opens the memorial exhibition, In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11 (11 March-12 June 2016).
  The natural disaster took around 18,000 lives, left 400,000 people displaced, and crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, causing it to leak radioactive water. This month, Japanese authorities disclosed that the power plant is still leaking contaminants.
  The Japan
  
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• Gagosian Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery to Open New Spaces Near SFMOMA

  10-03-2016 22:12 via artnews.com
  Gagosian's first space in San Francisco brings his gallery total to 16 Read More
  
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• The Twin sides of Edvard Munch: on Munch and Expressionism at the Neue Galerie

  10-03-2016 22:00
  
  "In whatever medium he worked—painting, drawing, or printmaking—the art of Munch is like a punch to the stomach." This line from Ronald Lauder's preface to the exhibition catalogue for Munch and Expressionism (at the Neue Galerie in New York until 13 June) is exactly half true. On the facing page of the preface is an image of one of the best works in the show, Edvard Munch's portrait of the Norwegian economist Christian Gierløff (1909), which carries none of the unease we are
  
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• The Enormous Moving Panoramas Of 19th-Century America

  10-03-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[A panorama] wasn’t meant to be viewed all at once. As a sort of pre-cinema film strip, it would be slowly turned for an audience as it immersed itself in the nautical narrative. Despite the huge popularity of such moving panoramas in the 19th century, very few survive. One of these rare examples is having a special viewing this month.”
  
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• The Buck Stopped Here: a week of girl power, from remembering Helen Chadwick to whoopee cushion records with Marvin Gaye Chetwynd

  10-03-2016 22:00
  
  All in all, it’s been a fabulously female week. Monday night—as already reported—was spent at Peer in Hoxton amongst the great dames Phyllida Barlow, Angela de la Cruz, Hannah Collins and the Peer director Ingrid Swenson. Tuesday, of course, was International Woman’s Day. In honour of which I paid tribute to a rare and tender art historical depiction of the mature female of Giorgione’s La Vecchia (1505), at the opening of the Royal Academy’s terrific show. We
  
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• Ten thousand pearls to adorn a bronze: Vidya Dehejia on Chola dynasty bronzes

  10-03-2016 22:00
  
  This year’s A.W. Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, which will be delivered by the Columbia University art historian Vidya Dehejia, look at bronzes fr om the south Indian Chola dynasty (850-1270) focusing, in part, on two pieces in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art. The six talks, which are bundled together with the title “The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Sacred Bronzes in Chola India,” survey “the major role thes
  
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• Impossible figures, strings and fractals: where art meets math

  10-03-2016 22:00
  
  Despite this book’s impressively wide coverage, I noticed a few omissions that would have added to the cultural theme. The material on impossible figures wrongly attributes their invention to the Penroses, whereas the originator was the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd, who created the impossible triangle in 1934 and subsequently drew many impossible pictures. Henry Moore’s stringed figures had a deeper history that went back to Gaspard Monge’s curves and the beautiful str
  
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• Canada Deregulates Cable TV Packages. But There Are Unintended Consequences

  10-03-2016 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Now, just as Internet television promises to make that competition more than a polite fiction, in swoops the CRTC with a form of price regulation. Second, it was a call that should have been left to industry: Surely it’s the job of the providers, not the regulator, to address unhappy customers – or face their cord-cutting wrath.”
  
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• World art market stalls for first time in years

  10-03-2016 19:49
  
  Fall of 7% a function of slowing at cheaper end of market with record prices at top end continuing to make headlinesAfter a string of boom years the international art market is stalling, with falls in global sales by both volume and value.The fall is mainly at the cheaper end of the market – defined in international art terms as below a million dollars – and offset by headline-grabbing record prices in the last year including the £200m believed to have been paid by a Qatari col
  
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• Dancing Is Therapeutic For Older People. Even Better In Front Of An Audience

  10-03-2016 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Wherever a dance professional’s focus might be in their work with older people, most agree that performing for an audience can have transformative effects, not only for older dancers but also for the audience. The range of emotions that comes with taking part in a performance can make it a significant life event.”
  
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• ‘I’m Judgy McJudgerson’ – Audra McDonald Can’t Give Herself A Break

  10-03-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over dinner one evening, she tears up talking about [her six Tony Awards], as if she had gotten them fraudulently. … So vigilant is she about not seeming grand or entitled that you can’t help wondering what phantoms she’s boxing.”
  
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• Forbidden fruit: why provocative art, blood oranges and Instagram don't mix

  10-03-2016 18:59
  
  Artist Stephanie Sarley’s work challenging society’s aversion to female sexuality has proved a viral hit – until Instagram disabled her accountA lascivious smirk belies the coy simplicity of Stephanie Sarley’s fruit art. In one short video, which the Oakland artist posted to Instagram in January, a finger gently rubs and then probes a juicy, halved blood orange. The video went viral. Her Instagram following grew from 10 to over 20,000. One new follower, New York Magazine
  
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• On Whose Authority? Finding A Critical Voice

  10-03-2016 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Is it possible to write criticism—or even to write critically—while at the same time refusing the critic’s authority? Can a work be coherent, meaningful, and precise without its author dressing it as a piece of art criticism—or as an interview, a short story, a book of photos, a psychoanalytic case study, an autobiography?”
  
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• Consumer Reports: Yannick Val Gesto

  10-03-2016 18:41 via artnews.com
  Yannick Val Gesto is a Belgian artist living and working in Antwerp. Since 2013, he has shown at the Belgian gallery Levy Delval and exhibited internationally at venues including Higher Pictures in New York, Gloria Knight Gallery in Auckland, New … Read More
  
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• ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ at Nahmad Contemporary

  10-03-2016 17:14 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Taryn Simon at Gagosian, New York

  10-03-2016 17:05 via artnews.com
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• Machine Dreams and Painting’s Extremes: Matthew Weinstein on Jonathan Lasker and Jen Liu

  10-03-2016 16:57 via artnews.com
  I used to associate Jonathan Lasker’s impasto loops with the singer Regina’s twisty hair wraps in the music video for her 1986 hit single, “Baby Love.” Lasker’s 1980s paintings, like Elizabeth Murray’s, had a happy overlap with ’80s graphic design, … Read More
  
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• Spain's concrete castle: a case of accidental genius?

  10-03-2016 15:50
  
  The new Frankenstein-like face of Matrera fortress has upset heritage watchdogs, but restores the clout its Moorish creators originally intended. As with other famous ‘botches’, might detractors learn to love it with time?It has been damned as the world’s worst ever restoration, yet another national embarrassment to add to Spain’s inglorious track record of botched conservation projects. The quaintly crumbling ruins of the ninth-century Matrera castle in Cádiz prov
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Salvator Mundi’ Edition

  10-03-2016 14:45 via artnews.com
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• Has a book ever changed your view of an artist?

  10-03-2016 14:00
  
  Biographer John Richardson inspired a love of Picasso while novelist Somerset Maugham demolished Gauguin. Which writers have changed your opinion?One of the most interesting recent discussions on our weekly Tips, Links and Suggestions forum was inspired by this question from regular contributor conedison: “Have you ever read a fictional or non-fictional account of a famous artist’s life in any aesthetic field that actually changed your opinion of their work for better or worse”
  
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• Hamelin/LPO/Jurowski, Royal Festival Hall, review: I've never heard so chilly a performance of this hot-blooded work

  10-03-2016 13:13
  
  Hamelin's encore – a Gershwin melody jazzed up – was a brilliant technical feat, but chilly too
  
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• Moroccan fashion fills Yves Saint Laurent’s Paris atelier

  10-03-2016 12:32
  
  The Moroccan fashion designer Noureddine Amir has been given carte blanche at the headquarters of the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent in Paris (until 3 April). More than 20 of Amir’s exquisite sculptural garments are dotted around the plush former private mansion for a special exhibition (incidentally, Rabat-born Amir is also known for collaborating with the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat). The Foundation building at 5 avenue Marceau will close for renovation and open next
  
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• Iranian art proves a hit with collectors at new London gallery

  10-03-2016 12:00
  
  London has become a hotbed for contemporary art from the Middle East and wider region in recent years. Sophia Contemporary Gallery, which opened yesterday (9 March), is the latest to join a growing roster of commercial and non-profit spaces showing Middle Eastern art in the UK capital, including The Mosaic Rooms and P21 Gallery.The Iranian-born artist Reza Derakshani launched Sophia Contemporary Gallery’s new space with an exhibition of 18 paintings, which nearly sold out on the opening n
  
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• Martin Parr webchat – post your questions now

  10-03-2016 11:21
  
  The quintessential photography of everyday Britain is joining us to answer your questions in a live webchat on Monday 14 March at 1pm GMT – post yours in the comments below 10.21am GMTSaturated in colour and humour, Martin Parr’s photos are instantly recognisable: they show everyday life as banal, but also funny and a little surreal.He’s most famous for his shots of tourists lapping up suncream and ice-cream at the seaside, but he started out with a quieter black-and-white styl
  
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• Noddy Holder through the eye of a needle: pinhead pop art – in pictures

  10-03-2016 08:00
  
  Is Willard Wigan the steadiest hand in art? From Michelangelo to Usain Bolt and scenes from Frozen, his tiny sculptures celebrate pop culture in miniature Continue reading...
  
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• Homegrown philanthropy fuels the new Speed Art Museum

  10-03-2016 01:59
  
  How did the Speed Art Museum—an under-the-radar institution in Louisville, Kentucky, far from a major art capital—manage to pull off a $60m renovation without a dollar of public funding? “Come to Louisville and you’ll understand right away,” says Brooke Brown Barzun, a native of the city and donor to the museum. Over the course of its seven-year fundraising campaign, the Speed managed to exceed its initial $50m goal by $10m.Philanthropy has always been part of the
  
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• Images of David Beckham are being auctioned in aid of Unicef - but is it art?

  10-03-2016 00:25
  
  The images, which range from classical Adonis to smooth sportstar, go under the hammer tomorrow night
  
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