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• Elisabeth Hase at Robert Mann Gallery, New York

  18-04-2016 23:18 via artnews.com
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• Shanghai Museums Grow Up: At the Long Museum and the Yuz Museum

  18-04-2016 23:13 via artnews.com
  Two years ago, when Shanghai first announced its five-year plan to develop into a cultural capital, many people were dubious about plopping museums into a metropolis overnight. But now that the West Bund Development in the Xuhui District is well … Read More
  
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• Kerry James Marshall’s epic black superhero

  18-04-2016 23:00
  
  There are not many black superheroes—and even fewer that have taken the lead in their own movies. The artist Kerry James Marshall, whose retrospective opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago this month (23 April-25 September), wants to change that.
  Since the late 1990s, he has been working on the comic book series Rythm Mastr, which like all his other work focuses entirely on African-American culture and subjects. The series follows a number of characters in Black Metropolis, and f
  
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• A rush for the Naughty Corner at this year’s riotous Arts Club quiz

  18-04-2016 23:00
  
  After last year’s outrageous outbreaks of insurgency—invited bribes, on-the-hoof rule changes, projectile French fries—last night saw a new and stricter regime in place at The Arts Club’s annual Art Quiz, organised by Alia Al-Senussi and Abdullah Al-Turki. However, an air of amiably uproarious anarchy still prevailed at this much-loved bunfight, now in its fifth year, at which tables of art world luminaries— including artist Roger Hiorns, Ikon Gallery’s Jonat
  
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• Former Director Of The Knoedler Gallery Defends Herself

  18-04-2016 22:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I have never deliberately done something wrong, which is to say knowingly. It doesn’t mean I haven’t…done things that I would like to take back…Mistakes happen. Since the beginning of mankind we have seen mistakes with thinking something is, and it isn’t.
  
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• A Blade of Grass Names 2016 Fellows for Socially Engaged Art

  18-04-2016 22:22 via artnews.com
  A Blade of Grass, the organization devoted to art that promotes social change, has named its 2016 ABOG Fellows for Socially Engaged Art. Each fellow will now receive $20,000, which can be used in any number of ways to support … Read More
  
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• The Man Who’s Transforming The Family Sitcom

  18-04-2016 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When a colleague kept comparing the colleges they had attended, Barris recalls, ‘I was like, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you went to school, because right now I’m looking at you across the table. So kudos to Harvard! Because we make the same money.’ ‘”
  
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• ‘This Spring Ritual, This Frenzy of Buying’: A Weekend With LACMA’s Collectors Committee as It Votes on Acquisitions

  18-04-2016 21:15 via artnews.com
  Whether they knew it or not, the producers of Mad Men lifted their opening-credit graphics—the silhouette of a man in a tie and white dress shirt—right from the work of Idelle Weber. Weber had been painting such men, isolated in … Read More
  
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• Modern British Writers Say Happy 200th Birthday To Charlotte Brontë

  18-04-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Lowood episode is the most frightening boarding school story ever written, and, of course, all children, me included, think they are friendless, persecuted and despised, and identify with the poor orphan.”
  
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• Dear Hollywood: What Is UP With The Yellowface?!

  18-04-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Which is worse: Hollywood not casting Asians to play Asians or Hollywood pretending that Asians don’t exist in the first place?”
  
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• How U.S. Coastal Cities Left The Middle States Behind

  18-04-2016 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The relative decline of St. Louis—along with that of other similarly endowed heartland cities—is therefore not simply, or even primarily, a story of deindustrialization. The larger explanation involves how presidents and lawmakers in both parties, influenced by a handful of economists and legal scholars, quietly altered federal competition policies, antitrust laws, and enforcement measures over a period of thirty years.”
  
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• The Young Artists Destroying Stereotypes About Asian American Women

  18-04-2016 18:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They asked Asian women to finish this sentence: ‘All asian women are not ____.’ They received hundreds of submissions, but decided to present 100 statements that seemed to consistently come up. The statements succinctly touch upon the fetishization of Asian women, the model minority myth, the token sidekick and myriad other stereotypes that Asians face.”
  
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• New contemporary art museum takes shape in Beirut

  18-04-2016 18:29
  
  A new museum of Modern and contemporary art in Lebanon has moved a step closer to becoming a reality with the announcement of the shortlisted architects for the project.
  The 2,780 sq. m museum, which will be located in central Beirut close to the National Museum, is due to open by 2020. Representatives from the Association for the Promotion and Exhibition of the Arts in Lebanon (Apeal), the non-profit organisation behind the museum, have signed a long-term lease agreement with the Universit&eac
  
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• There's a secret pool somewhere in the Mojave desert

  18-04-2016 17:08
  
  And it's no mirage.
  
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• Sicily: Culture and Conquest review – gods, monsters and multiculturalism

  18-04-2016 16:46
  
  British Museum, London
  Ancient Sicily may have been a land of tyrants, but this exhibition shows that from the time of its Norman invasion, its culture was remarkably open-mindedRelated: Golden years: Sicily at the British Museum The Normans, those lean invaders in scaly chain mail who slayed and conquered their way into Britain in the embroidered scenes of the Bayeux tapestry, have a harsh reputation. Even though the English language, laws and politics owe so much to these warriors of Norse des
  
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• The Bolshoi’s New Director Gives His First Western Media Interview

  18-04-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Vaziev insists it was time for him to return home to the tradition he grew up in as a dancer. He says he brings few lessons back from his time in the West, other than being firmly convinced there is nowhere in the world that ballet is danced better than in Russia.”
  
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• Not Again by Hussein Kinoko

  18-04-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I remember I saw a flowery tree with a hive hanging.
  A golden Jelly of honey was draining down to the ground and it caught me up.I went for it with no caution that bees might sting me, I showed my face barely and I got stung badly. I swear not again
  Bees seemed polite, humble and gentle. I gave my beautiful hand for them to land, bees are painted with black and yellow stripes, the bees are beautiful indeed but very grievous. I swear not again
  It hurts when you get Stung and you never tasted thei
  
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• A 19-Year-Old Braves Everything To Lead A Women’s Orchestra In Afghanistan

  18-04-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Now living in an orphanage in the Afghan capital of Kabul, Negin leads the Zohra orchestra, an ensemble of 35 women at the Afghanistan National Institute for Music that plays both Western and Afghan musical instruments.”
  
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• Life by Hussein Kinoko

  18-04-2016 15:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sadly Walking along the long beach.Hardly thinking what life still has to teach.Life will still suprise you even if you saw Jesus preach.Time changes and so life, where is Martin Luthers Jr’s speech?
  People get hurt and lose hope to love again.People fear to start and fail to cope with the pain.Its all Life, have faith and move on again and again.Bury the pain and strive, its the only way to sustain.
  Life can make you be anything, notably begins with you.Life can give you everything, amazi
  
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• The Murky World Of The Ancient Artifact Market

  18-04-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On the one hand are the source countries, which are mostly poor and have passed laws against taking ancient objects out of the country — but they often don’t have the wherewithal to enforce the bans. On the other hand are the rich countries where the collectors live.”
  
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• Morning Links: Knoedler Gallery Edition

  18-04-2016 14:54 via artnews.com
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• Remember When Amazon Prime Was For Free Book Shipping?

  18-04-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Now you can get a Netflix-competitor standalone Amazon Prime Video service. Books? Other goods? Meh. Streaming!
  
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• Guggenheim Protests Will Resume After Museum Breaks Off Negotiations

  18-04-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Gulf Labor members said they, along with other rights advocates, had provided the museum with examples of contract language that could help address issues related to recruitment fees, wages and the ability to organize. Museum officials have said those areas were beyond their direct influence.”
  
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• Is Theatre Killing Itself By Being Obsessed With Hits (And Money)?

  18-04-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Playwright David Hare: “When I was young, British theatre was like a tree in which many different birds could nest. But now it’s just for the hawks.”
  
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• The Problem With Critics

  18-04-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “My objection isn’t so much to the idea that it’s wrong to use your own experiences as a guide to explain how you interact with the items under review as it is to the fact that so many of the critics who are doing it are boring, grasping people whose experiences are mundane at best and often comically overvalued given how empty and insignificant they are.”
  
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• So What Will Happen If Hamilton Doesn’t Win The Pulitzer?

  18-04-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I image we’d see chaos and bloodshed in Shubert Alley if it was somehow passed over, the likes of which New York hasn’t witnessed since the Astor Place Riot of 1849, with Lin-Manuel Miranda pleading with his fans for some sanity.”
  
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• This Paris Museum May Rename Itself

  18-04-2016 13:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Musée du quai Branly in Paris, the ethnographic museum located in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, could soon have a different name. The museum’s director, Stéphane Martin, has submitted a request to the French culture and higher education ministries.”
  
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• A 66-Year-Old Poet Suddenly Catches Fire With Pop Culture

  18-04-2016 13:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Myles has a theory about her resurgent popularity — you might call it the Theory of the Bad Copy, which posits that most people who are breaking with the past do so by presenting initially as bad copies of an accepted person.”
  
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• Quiz: how well does the art world know its Monet from its Manet?

  18-04-2016 12:40
  
  Think tonight’s grand final of University Challenge (BBC 2 at 8pm) is the pinnacle of brainbox quizzes? Think again. The Arts Club in London will host the great and good of the art world for its annual fundraising Art Quiz this evening, 18 April. But will the teams— formed by major galleries, arts patrons, journalists and the auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s—know their Manet from their Monet, while raising a whole load of money? This year’s non-profit
  
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• It's all about the Manet, Monet and Money at tonight's Arts Club Quiz

  18-04-2016 12:40
  
  Think tonight’s grand final of University Challenge (BBC 2 at 8pm) is the pinnacle of brainbox quizzes? Think again. The Arts Club in London will host the great and good of the art world for its annual fundraising Art Quiz this evening, 18 April. But will the teams— formed by major galleries, arts patrons, journalists and auction houses—know their Manet from their Monet, while raising a whole load of money? This year’s non-profit beneficiary will be Gasworks in south Lon
  
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• How do you buy Indigenous Australian art ethically?

  18-04-2016 09:45
  
  There’s the right way and then the shyster way of buying art in Alice Springs. Here’s how to support artists and the art centres that are building communitiesThe bad old days weren’t so long ago.Cowboys, conmen, chancers and fly-by-night gallerists would swoop into the most remote parts of Australia and return with a haul of dot paintings, obtained by methods fair and foul. Related: Aussie rules and Aboriginal art: meet the Hermannsburg potters at workRelated: Indigenous Art: P
  
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• The imaginative inner life of the comic artist – in pictures

  18-04-2016 09:31
  
  For new exhibition Comic Tragics, Art Gallery of Western Australian (AGWA) curator Robert Cook has collected more than 150 local and international contemporary comic pieces exploring hope, heartbreak, passion and anxiety, from some of the most exciting comic artists working today.Here, Cook has selected 15 highlights for Guardian Australia: ‘As disparate as they might appear, each artist’s practice deals with the struggle of what it means to be human,’ he saysComic Tragics: the
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 04.17.16

  18-04-2016 07:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pélieu Show, With Norman Mailer Cocktail
  Feeding Tube Records offered some swag at its exhibition of Claude Pélieu’s Bosch-derived collages. “We made buttons as giveaways,” Byron Coley says, “and we featured a urine-colored cocktail called Norman Mailer’s Pocket.” You can be… … read more
  AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2016-04-17Blossom Time
  Today’s cycling expedition took me through the upper reaches of apple country where the o
  
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• Game Of Thrones As Immersive, Interactive Art Exhibit? Sure, Why Not

  18-04-2016 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘It’s going to be aggressive to stand in front of because it’s 12-feet-tall and glowing red,’ said designer Ashley Walker.”
  
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• Ballet Brawl: Don’t Miss This Week’s Top AJ Arts Stories (04.17.16)

  18-04-2016 06:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This week, a groundbreaking deal for Broadway actors and dancers, James Levine finally decides to retire from the Met Opera, a debacle at the National Ballet of Romania that quickly escalated to involve the country’s Prime Minister, a warning about fetishizing “creativity” as the key to success, and a cautionary question about what machine intelligence might look like.
  
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• Mark Bradford to represent the US at the 57th Venice Biennale

  18-04-2016 00:50
  
  The Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford will represent the United States at the 2017 Venice Biennale, the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, announced today, 18 April. The Rose, which was threatened with closure by the university's president during the recession, will present Bradford’s work at the event. The exhibition at the US Pavilion, due to run from 13 May to 26 November 2017, will feature a new site-specific installation by Brad
  
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• A Fierce Artist, Finally Getting Her Due

  18-04-2016 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I used to think, why am I putting myself through this? There’s enough tension and anxiety in my life already. But it was all I could do with the means that I had, which was me, and myself.”
  
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