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• ‘The Real Question Is, What Do We Desire?’: Thomas Nozkowski on Art, Consciousness, and Endurance

  21-03-2016 22:16 via artnews.com
  Thomas Nozkowski has painted almost every day for the past 40 years, and the works he has made in that time are united less by a signature style than by an enduring inventiveness, moving through a range of lively, even rollicking, abstract languages.In his latest … Read More
  
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• World-class fresco studio saved from commercial merger

  21-03-2016 22:00
  
  After nearly a year of uncertainty, the Russian government has decided against its controversial plan to fold the Interregional Art Restoration Center in Moscow (MNRHU), one of the country’s premier studios and the only one specialising in ancient Russian frescoes, into a giant commercial restoration firm created by the government.
  The decision comes several months after an open letter protesting against the move was written to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, by the family and coll
  
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• When Wagstaff met Mapplethorpe

  21-03-2016 22:00
  
  Once the US curator and collector Sam Wagstaff had decided that photography was an undervalued art form, his appetite became voracious—an enthusiasm shared and supported by his protégé and boyfriend, the artist Robert Mapplethorpe.
  In a new book, The Thrill of the Chase, Paul Martineau, the associate curator in the department of photography at Los Angeles’s J. Paul Getty Museum, describes Wagstaff’s nine-year spending spree on images by famous and obscure photogr
  
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• Tracey Emin: ‘I’m looking for a soul mate, nothing else will do’

  21-03-2016 22:00
  
  Last summer, under an olive tree in her garden in France and wearing her father’s white funeral shroud, Tracey Emin married a large rock. A series of drawings she made of the union weave a thread through the artist’s first solo exhibition in China (in 2014, she showed a large neon work in Hong Kong’s Peninsula hotel). Her show I Cried Because I Love You (until 21 May) is a joint presentation by Lehmann Maupin and White Cube and is displayed across their Hong Kong galleries. Lo
  
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• New film on Uli Sigg's life takes Chinese art collector back in time

  21-03-2016 22:00
  
  The film-maker Michael Schindhelm has taken the Swiss art collector Uli Sigg back to the China that the businessman-turned-diplomat first encountered in 1979. “China was like North Korea ten years ago,” Schindhelm says, describing the moment when the Communist Party began to lift the Bamboo Curtain, allowing Western companies to do business there. The first half of The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg, which received its Asian premiere in Hong Kong on 21 March, recalls the China of the 198
  
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• My Hong Kong: art world insiders reveal their hot spots

  21-03-2016 22:00
  
  My top tip for surviving Art Basel Hong Kong week is…
  Ride the Star Ferry across the harbour, back and forth until you feel as though you can breathe again. I recommend the upper deck.
  Art fairs are important because…
  You get to see a lot of people and art from around the world at once. If you’re in London or New York, you have five, or perhaps seven, weeks like that in a year. Here, this one week in March is pretty much it. So we really appreciate it.I last watched (film/the
  
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• Museums seek help as spectre of censorship looms over Turkey

  21-03-2016 22:00
  
  As incidents of censorship are on the rise in Turkey, museums and art centres must find increasingly nimble ways to negotiate the changing cultural landscape. A new guide for Turkish cultural venues and artists implicated in censorship cases is due to be published later this year by the research platform Siyah Bant.“I can recite a hundred horrific incidents from last year alone. It would be a pity to think of them as arbitrary or unrelated. This zeitgeist makes the culture wars of the 198
  
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• Museums seek help as censorship grows in Turkey

  21-03-2016 22:00
  
  As incidents of censorship are on the rise in Turkey, museums and art centres must find increasingly nimble ways to negotiate the changing cultural landscape. A new guide for Turkish cultural venues and artists implicated in censorship cases is due to be published later this year by the research platform Siyah Bant.“I can recite a hundred horrific incidents from last year alone. It would be a pity to think of them as arbitrary or unrelated. This zeitgeist makes the culture wars of the 198
  
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• Guggenheim ramps up its Chinese art collecting with new commissions

  21-03-2016 22:00
  
  New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is building up its collection of Chinese contemporary art. Richard Armstrong, the director of the Guggenheim, is due to announce in Hong Kong this week that the institution will commission new works by seven artists and collectives from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan as the latest part of the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative. The artists have less than a year to create the new works, which will become part of the museum
  
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• Barack Obama visits Havana’s historic city centre

  21-03-2016 21:12
  
  President Barack Obama touched down in Havana on Sunday, 20 March, making him the first sitting US president to visit Cuba in 88 years. While touring the historic centre of Old Havana on Monday with first lady Michelle Obama, he stopped by the City Museum, where he was greeted by a portrait of Abraham Lincoln placed in the entryway. The president also placed a wreath at the monument to the Cuban writer and nationalist José Martí in Revolution Square.
  The island nation with a popul
  
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• ‘Cindy Sherman: Works from the Olbricht Collection’ at me Collectors Room, Berlin

  21-03-2016 20:45 via artnews.com
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• ENO head Cressida Pollock's exclusive manifesto to save her company: 'I can't allow it to fail'

  21-03-2016 20:28
  
  ​Cressida Pollock, chief executive of the English National Opera, is no opera buff. Nonetheless, she thinks she has a plan to turn the troubled company's fortunes around. Here, she outlines her bold rescue strategy
  
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• Revolution in the Making review – unspooling an alternative art history

  21-03-2016 20:26
  
  Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles
  In its enormous new LA space, the commercial gallery has staged an inaugural exhibition comprised solely of sculptures by female artists, making a case that the classtic story of art after modernism is sexist and incompleteDid you hear the one about the Swiss family that moved to Los Angeles? Hauser & Wirth, the Zurich mega-gallery with outposts in London, Somerset and New York, has landed on the other end of the American continent, and did not pack l
  
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• Like Many Former Actors, The Writer Of ‘The Waitress’ Understands The Show’s Subject On A Visceral Level

  21-03-2016 18:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At a moment when the question of female creative representation has come to a head, Nelson offers a template for how some of those issues could be solved, if also a less-than-overt interest in being a poster child for the cause.”
  
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• The Live Theatre Craze Meets Religion As Fox Hypes Jesus’ Last Days

  21-03-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One musical number stood out: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1945 showstopper ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone,’ which got a loud response from the live audience even though Ms. Yearwood’s voice wasn’t nearly big enough for it.”
  
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• Dan Finsel and Mariah Garnett Named Winners of the 2016 Los Angeles Artadia Awards

  21-03-2016 16:55 via artnews.com
  Artadia has announced their selection of Dan Finsel and Mariah Garnett as the winners of the 2016 Los Angeles Artadia Awards. Finsel and Garnett will be awarded $10,000 in addition to lifetime access to ongoing benefits of the Artadia Awards … Read More
  
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• Hepworth Wakefield Names Shortlisted Artists for U.K. Museum’s Sculpture Prize

  21-03-2016 16:01 via artnews.com
  The Hepworth Wakefield announced the shortlisted artists for its Hepworth Prize for Sculpture today. According to a release, the prize is the U.K.’s first-ever sculpture award, and it’s going to be given out biennially to a British or U.K.-based sculptor. … Read More
  
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• Jonathan Biss, Wigmore Hall, review: Fascinating the audience with his Mozart, Schoenberg, and Schumann

  21-03-2016 15:48
  
  He expertly steered his final work between its polarities of breathless excitement and contemplative calm
  
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• David Bowie mural in Brixton to be protected, says Lambeth council

  21-03-2016 15:46
  
  Painting by artist Jimmy C on side wall of department store became a shrine for fans after the singer’s death in JanuaryLambeth council is to protect the David Bowie mural in Brixton, south London, that became a shrine after the singer’s death in January.The mural, on the side of Morleys department store on Tunstall Road, has drawn thousands of fans who have left tributes and flowers to the Brixton-born singer. Continue reading...
  
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• Cara Delevingne: more than a mere muse for male painters

  21-03-2016 14:37
  
  Celebrated portraitist Jonathan Yeo has called Cara Delevingne the “perfect muse”, as he unveils a series of paintings of the model and actor. This patronising word belongs in a Victorian era of deluded lust Women are still fighting for full equality with men as artists, but there is one role in which the art world has always embraced them and still does: that strange entity of the “muse”. Related: Cara Delevingne: 'I'd love to punch a photographer, I dream about it at ni
  
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• Morning Links: Shukhov Tower Edition

  21-03-2016 13:58 via artnews.com
  ICONSThe Shukhov Tower, a 1920s broadcast transmission tower in Moscow that doubles as an icon of modernist structural engineering, has been added to the 2016 World Monuments Fund Watch list of endangered global cultural heritage sites. [The New York Times]A profile … Read More
  
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• Poem of the week: Inside the Spacious Tomb by Robin Fulton Macpherson

  21-03-2016 13:45
  
  This week’s poem has a Christian resurrection theme as it brings to life William Blake’s painting of angels rolling away the stone from Christ’s tombThe white glow from the wakened corpse
  brightens the faces of the two
  staring angels, one left one right,
  and the back of the third, who lifts
  lightly the jagged square stone slab
  from the tomb’s round-arched opening.Continue reading...
  
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• The Restoration: watch artist Elizabeth Price's digital excavation of Ancient Greece

  21-03-2016 10:27
  
  The 2012 Turner winner is back with The Restoration, in which Price mines the archives of Sir Arthur Evans, the man who uncovered Knossos in Crete in 1900A Restoration is at the Ashmolean, Oxford from 18 March to 15 May. Commissioned as part of the 2013 Contemporary Art Society Award for Museums, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology and the Pitt-Rivers Museums, in partnership with the Ruskin School of ArtContinue reading...
  
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• Night at the museum: Turner winner Elizabeth Price on breaking the glass cabinet

  21-03-2016 09:00
  
  Elizabeth Price has taken exhibits from Sir Arthur Evans’s landmark excavation of Knossos and brought them back to lifeSome winners of the Turner prize lap up the attention. At the extreme end of the spectrum lies Grayson Perry who, since winning the award, has forged a successful TV career. Others prefer to withdraw to the shadows once the fuss has died down. Elizabeth Price, who won in 2012, is firmly in the latter category. She says she found the experience of the prize “exciting
  
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• The surreal and sprawling landscapes of Australian artist Jan Senbergs – in pictures

  21-03-2016 04:49
  
  A major retrospective hosted by the National Gallery of Victoria showcases more than 120 works from one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Jan Senbergs, who moved from Latvia to Melbourne in 1950, after the second world war.
  ‘Jan Senbergs is an extraordinary inventor of his own visual language, at once simple and bold,’ says the NGV director, Tony Ellwood. ‘From lush landscapes to barren urban spaces, his body of work signifies an artist who has continual
  
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• Where science and art collide

  21-03-2016 04:01
  
  Science and art find common ground at the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Fact) in Liverpool. Earlier this year, it launched a three-year partnership with the Geneva-based nuclear physics research organisation Cern. And this month, it is hosting an exhibition about the origins of the solar system, that comes out of a collaboration between an artist and an astrophysicist.
  As well as exhibitions and public programmes, Fact’s partnership with Cern has resulted in an internation
  
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• Phyllida Barlow on shortlist for Hepworth sculpture prize

  21-03-2016 01:01
  
  New award named after Barbara Hepworth recognises UK-based artist at any stage of career – not just those under 50 like Turner prize
  The artists Phyllida Barlow, Steven Claydon, Helen Marten and David Medalla have been shortlisted for a new £30,000 prize rewarding contemporary British sculpture.The Hepworth prize, named after one of the 20th century’s greatest sculptors, Barbara Hepworth, launches this year with a mission to recognise artists who have made a significant contrib
  
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