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• Voyeur in the studio

  14-04-2016 23:47
  
  We are in the atelier of Claude Monet in Giverny around 1920. A battered sofa and a table crowded with objects stand against a backdrop of two immense canvases depicting the artist’s beloved water lilies. The Impressionist painter, with palette in hand, is choosing a brush. The scene was shot by Henri Manuel, an official photographer for the French government.
  Painterly tradition has already given us images in which artists, from Jacques-Louis David to Gustave Courbet, picture themselves
  
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• Through the keyhole: photographers capture artists’ studios

  14-04-2016 23:47
  
  We are in the atelier of Claude Monet in Giverny around 1920. A battered sofa and a table crowded with objects stand against a backdrop of two immense canvases depicting the artist’s beloved water lilies. The Impressionist painter, with palette in hand, is choosing a brush. The scene was shot by Henri Manuel, an official photographer for the French government.
  Painterly tradition has already given us images in which artists, from Jacques-Louis David to Gustave Courbet, picture themselves
  
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• Department Of Don’t Worry: Books Will Never Be Replaced By Digital Files

  14-04-2016 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The book industry is too complicated to distill into any one of those sweeping theses. Print books have persisted, but ebooks are not going away. Amazon is powerful, but physical bookstores are still here. The book is not immune to the powerful digital forces that have re-shaped so much of the rest of the world. At the same time, books have been able to resist the forces of change because books really are different.”
  
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• We should consider a Millennial Society to protect the past

  14-04-2016 23:00
  
  Earlier this year, the British prime minister, David Cameron, pledged that he would demolish or overhaul 100 Brutalist housing estates across the UK. “Step outside in the worst estates and you’re confronted by concrete slabs dropped from on high, brutal high-rise towers and dark alleyways that are a gift to criminals and drug dealers,” he wrote in an article announcing the Conservative government’s plans.The raw, stripped-back nature of Brutalism, and its mammoth scale,
  
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• Museums and galleries turn to the work of Gordon Parks

  14-04-2016 23:00
  
  The American photographer Gordon Parks (1912-2006), whose wide-ranging career included work as a photojournalist for Life and Vogue magazines, and who later directed the 1971 film Shaft, will be the subject of exhibitions in Chicago, Berlin and Los Angeles in 2016 and 2017 (see below).The sustained interest in his work is a measure of success for the Gordon Parks Foundation, which was founded in 2006 and has carefully managed his estate. “The very first thing the foundation decided on was
  
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• Frieze gets the Hollywood treatment as entertainment group WME-IMG buys a stake

  14-04-2016 23:00
  
  The US sports and entertainment conglomerate WME-IMG, which is run by the Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel and his business partner Patrick Whitesell, has invested in Frieze, the London-based publisher and art fair. The sum invested and the size of WME-ING’s shareholding have not yet been revealed.
  The fair’s founders, Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, have said the partnership will “enable us to start realising innovations we’ve been developing over the last year,&rdq
  
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• Christie’s gears up for an evening of 'failure'

  14-04-2016 23:00
  
  Christie's announced today that an edition of Jeff Koons's Equilibrium tank of floating basketballs (est $12m) and Maurizio Cattelan’s statue of a kneeling Hitler ($10m-$15m) will lead its curated Sunday 8 May sale Bound to Fail. Organised by Loic Gouzer, the deputy chairman of post-war and contemporary art, the sale is a new addition to the auction house's typical New York sales roster (traditionally limited to just two nights, modern and contempor
  
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• ‘Between Us, We Can Do Anything!’: Marilyn Minter Debuts Miley Cyrus Portrait for Planned Parenthood

  14-04-2016 21:34 via artnews.com
  At the annual Planned Parenthood spring luncheon today at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan, Marilyn Minter, the organization’s Woman of Valor honoree, unveiled a new Miley Cyrus portrait, with a short introduction from the subject herself.In a video, Cyrus, lounging in … Read More
  
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• Dallas Art Fair Announces Acquisition Program for the City’s Art Museum

  14-04-2016 21:26 via artnews.com
  Earlier today the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) in association with the Dallas Art Fair announced the creation of the Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program. Established on the eve of this year’s fair, the program provides the DMA with … Read More
  
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• ‘The World in Play’ at the Met Cloisters

  14-04-2016 20:55 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• ‘This Institution Has Always Been Underfunded’: Anne Pasternak Offers Candid Thoughts on the Future of the Brooklyn Museum

  14-04-2016 19:38 via artnews.com
  On Thursday, Anne Pasternak, the new director of the Brooklyn Museum, hosted a small group of journalists at a meeting in her office to discuss her plans for the institution. The carpeting in Pasternak’s office is purple, there are chairs … Read More
  
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• For Her Next Show, Mariah Eichhorn Is Giving Gallery Staff Five Weeks of Vacation

  14-04-2016 19:32 via artnews.com
  Let me tell you, I thought I was having a pretty chill afternoon here at the offices of ARTnews in New York, just sending a few emails and getting some writing done at a leisurely pace. But then I caught wind … Read More
  
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• For Her Next Show, Maria Eichhorn Is Giving Gallery Staff Five Weeks of Vacation

  14-04-2016 19:32 via artnews.com
  Let me tell you, I thought I was having a pretty chill afternoon here at the offices of ARTnews in New York, just sending a few emails and getting some writing done at a leisurely pace. But then I caught wind … Read More
  
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• Jean-Luc Moulène review – who knew French art could be so funny?

  14-04-2016 18:39
  
  Thomas Dane Gallery, London
  If spliced buttocks, breasts and goat legs are symbols of a nation in decline, let’s have more of them – for this is modern art at its wicked best
  I am in a ghostly garden of some forgotten chateau where grey lichen-marked statues loom in the mist among once-pollarded, now madly overgrown, trees. OK, I made up the chateau, the mist and the trees – but they are all evoked by Jean-Luc Moulène’s eerie installation of concrete rococo sculptu
  
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• The Beat Goes On: Cory Arcangel at Team Gallery, New York

  14-04-2016 17:54 via artnews.com
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• US Senate blocks the import of art and artefacts from Syria

  14-04-2016 17:12
  
  The US Senate unanimously passed a bill intended to stem the perceived flow of illicitly removed artefacts from Syria on Wednesday, 13 April. The Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act had already passed Congress's lower chamber, the House of Representatives, and is headed to President Obama to be signed into law.The law would effectively ban the import of “any archaeological or ethnological material of Syria”, granting the President and Congress other review power
  
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• The new Tate Modern: more space, seats … and women

  14-04-2016 16:26
  
  Art gallery on London’s South Bank seeks to embrace more global works after its bold £260m extensionTate Modern’s vast £260m extension will open this summer as the gallery places greater focus on international art and – the new director’s avowed aim – women.Frances Morris, who has been in post for two weeks after succeeding Chris Dercon, said the latter was a key part of the gallery’s future. “It isn’t like we are celebrating women for
  
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• New Tate Modern will present a global view of art

  14-04-2016 15:21
  
  The director of Tate, Nicholas Serota, and the new director of Tate Modern, Frances Morris, who succeeded Chris Dercon just over a week ago, revealed details today, 14 April, of the art and special performances visitors will encounter when the “new Tate Modern” opens on 17 June. “All the doors will be open,” Serota said, referring to those in the former power station, now renamed Boiler House, and the entrances in the £260m, nine-floor extension designed by Herzog
  
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• New Tate Modern will present a 'fully global' view of art

  14-04-2016 15:21
  
  The director of Tate, Nicholas Serota, and the new director of Tate Modern, Frances Morris, who succeeded Chris Dercon just over a week ago, revealed details today, 14 April, of the art and special performances visitors will encounter when the “new Tate Modern” opens on 17 June. “All the doors will be open,” Serota said, referring to those in the former power station, now renamed Boiler House, and the entrances in the £260m, nine-floor extension designed by Herzog
  
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• Morning Links: Syrian Artifacts Edition

  14-04-2016 14:46 via artnews.com
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• Kit Twyford obituary

  14-04-2016 13:41
  
  My husband, Kit Twyford, who has died aged 79, was a sculptor and art school lecturer. He had commercial success with one-man exhibitions and also in group shows alongside Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Kevin Armitage and Lynn Chadwick.Born in Sheffield, he was one of four children of Dorothy (nee Ward) and Hector. His father was a teacher at King Edward VII grammar school in the city, where Kit was educated. He then studied at Sheffield Art College (where we met as fellow students, marrying in
  
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• Roger Hiorns hopes to see lots of planes buried around the world

  14-04-2016 12:23
  
  The UK artist Roger Hiorns has revealed there are plans to bury not one, but a small fleet of planes around the world. Hiorns’s proposal to inter a decommissioned Boeing 737 in his hometown of Birmingham was announced in February, but it is only “part of a network”, Hiorns says. “I’ve had conversations with five or six people around the world who want to bury planes.” The US, South Africa and the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea are some of th
  
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• Empty Britain: portrait of a nation without any people – in pictures

  14-04-2016 08:00
  
  From rentakit housing estates to industrial wastelands and deserted roads, photographer Polly Tootal looks beyond picture postcards to capture less celebrated corners of Britain. Look closely – there’s not a tourist in sight Continue reading...
  
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• Untitled(he wants to live in a house with solar panels and to plant lentils and wanton crops. )

  14-04-2016 00:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  you have a dirty mind, i said.that is why you like me, a said.yeah, i said.i feel like a woman and a feels like a man when i’m with her. i breathe life into her and she does the same with me.a drinks me like a glass of water.i miss you, i said. you know i have been writing about you because i’m angry i don’t get to see you.how is the murakami, a said.i have read four of his books. he writes about dead men that have to go on living and thwarted men who want to die and can’
  
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