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• Mathieu Malouf at Jenny’s, Los Angeles

  21-04-2016 23:21 via artnews.com
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• Ranking: Adele Is Now The Richest UK Musician Ever

  21-04-2016 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A list of the top 50 music millionaires in the UK and Ireland puts the singer’s £85m fortune in 30th place – an increase of £35m compared to last year. The only female singer with a bigger fortune on the list – which also covers Ireland – is Irishwoman Enya on £91m.”
  
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• Race to digitise photographs chronicling the birth of Bangladesh

  21-04-2016 23:00
  
  In an age when the risks faced by wartime photojournalists have become all too apparent, two Dutch organisations are joining forces with a Dhaka-based picture agency to preserve the photography archive of Rashid Talukder (1939-2011), who is known for his defining images of Bangladesh’s struggle for independence from Pakistan.The award-winning photographer gave 156,000 negatives, many dating from the country’s bloody Liberation War of 1971, to the Drik Picture Library in 2010, a year
  
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• Museums go Bard: the best Shakespeare exhibitions

  21-04-2016 23:00
  
  Theatres across the globe are pulling out their best ruffs to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death this year. But museums are also getting in on the act. From a US-wide exhibition of Shakespeare’s First Folio to a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to see his will, we bring you the shows that are taking centre stage.  By Me William Shakespeare: a Life in Writing, King’s College, Inigo Rooms, Somerset House (until 29 May)
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• Brussels stakes its claim as European hotspot for contemporary art

  21-04-2016 23:00
  
  Brussels established itself as a hotspot for contemporary art to rival Berlin or Paris this week, with the opening of three fairs including newcomer Independent Brussels, which launched to VIPs on 20 April (until 23 April). Together with those at Art Brussels and the Young International Art Fair, 257 galleries are exhibiting in the Belgian city this week.Dealers and collectors were full of praise for the light and airy architecture of Independent Brussels, which is housed in the six-storey 1930
  
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• Hollywood producer David Geffen gives $100m to MoMA

  21-04-2016 22:23
  
  The Museum of Modern Art announced today that it has received a landmark $100m donation from the entertainment mogul and art collector David Geffen.
  The donation will go toward the museum’s renovation and expansion. Three floors of new galleries in MoMA’s westward expansion on 53rd street will, consequently, now be named the David Geffen Wing. (The expansion project in general will add 50,000 sq. ft of exhibition space to the museum.) The fourth floor galleries in the current buildi
  
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• Ukraine Bans Russian Movies. And TV. And Cultural Figures

  21-04-2016 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They have barred each other’s main TV channels on their territory. Ukraine has blacklisted 83 cultural figures, most of them Russian, whom it considers a national security threat. Those on the list – barred from visiting Ukraine – mostly support Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine.”
  
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• Here’s Where This Year’s Presidential Candidates Stand On The Arts

  21-04-2016 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The choice in November’s general election will no doubt be much clearer when it comes to support for arts, but the current field of two Democrats and three Republicans offers a rainbow of cultural policies. Here’s a rundown of some of the key points from each candidate’s political career.”
  
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• David Geffen Donates $100 M. to MoMA

  21-04-2016 20:49 via artnews.com
  The Museum of Modern Art announced today that philanthropist David Geffen has presented the museum with a $100 million gift for the purpose of its upcoming renovation and expansion. It comes just four months after hedge-fund honcho Kenneth C. Griffin gave $40 … Read More
  
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• Los Angeles Library Unveils Its New Library Card, Designed By Shepard Fairey

  21-04-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Fairey’s design, which he created with artist Cleon Peterson, depicts the historic Central Library in downtown in a white, green and black motif that echoes Fairey’s signature poster style.”
  
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• How Whit Stillman’s Films Humanized The 1%

  21-04-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Medieval morality plays had vice; Marxists, the bourgeoisie; and my English professors, dead white males. (They also worried about power, brainchild of Foucault’s bald pate.) But these days, we cross our index fingers in the face of privilege. … No one, however, has done more to humanize poor old two-dimensional Privilege than the filmmaker Whit Stillman. … Unsurprisingly, this seems to trouble his critics.”
  
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• Democratize The Arts? Doesn’t Really Mean Much, Does It?

  21-04-2016 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If art and culture are to matter to more people, they must provide them with value. Much audience development work, however, seeks to provide people not with value but with values, because the ideological basis of audience development is the democratisation of culture.”
  
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• Billionaire Leonard Blavatnik donates millions to V&A

  21-04-2016 18:36
  
  The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is to name the entrance hall of its new extension after the American billionaire Leonard Blavatnik. Although the exact sum remains confidential, it is thought to be several million pounds. Blavatnik, who was born in the Ukraine, emigrated to the US and took citizenship. He later moved to London and last year was named the UK's richest man, thanks to his investments in Russia (through Access Industries). In recent years his family foundation has been a ma
  
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• A Homecoming: Adam Yokell on his approach to ‘Hometown,’ his new upstart gallery

  21-04-2016 18:04 via artnews.com
  On a recent afternoon in Bushwick, Adam Yokell, former lead counsel for the online art resource platform Artsy, walked me around his newly established gallery, ‘Hometown‘. This being the space’s first exhibition—an “open concept show,” Yokell said—much of Yokell’s sensibility and … Read More
  
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• If you want to live dangerously, visit an art gallery

  21-04-2016 17:54
  
  It seems Damien Hirst’s leaking vitrines poisoned the air of Tate Modern – but who cares? We don’t expect common sense from artists – we want imagination The health and safety inspectors are coming for contemporary art. This stuff is dangerous, people! All those spiralling slides, dodgy TV monitors reused by video artists, the installations made with who knows what flammable substances – they all have to go.Related: Damien Hirst's preserved carcasses leaked formalde
  
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• ‘The Dog Really Confused Things’: Another Side of William Wegman

  21-04-2016 17:24 via artnews.com
  William Wegman bought his first dog in California after responding to an ad in a Long Beach, California newspaper that said, “Weimaraners $35.” He called the new pet Man Ray. Wegman had trained as a painter, but as a graduate … Read More
  
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• V&A museum project boosted by billionaire's donation

  21-04-2016 16:01
  
  New entrance hall to be named after Len Blavatnik whose £75m donation to Oxford University last year attracted criticismThe V&A’s new Exhibition Road entrance will be named after Britain’s richest man, Len Blavatnik, after his foundation donated money that brings the museum to 95% of fundraising for the £49.5m project.The museum is not revealing how big Blavatnik’s donation is, although it is believed to be about £5m. Related: Blavatnik School of Governmen
  
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• Cecil Taylor Will Play a Second Concert at the Whitney

  21-04-2016 15:47 via artnews.com
  The surprises just keep coming.Last Thursday night, the free jazz legend Cecil Taylor was scheduled to play a rare set, with percussionist Tony Oxley and dancer Min Tanaka, in New York at the Whitney Museum, which is hosting a show … Read More
  
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• Roger Hiorns on course to bury Boeing 737 under Birmingham canalside

  21-04-2016 15:08
  
  After filling a London council flat with crystals, the Turner prize-nominee is realising his next grand plan for 2017 – and he’s even bought the aeroplaneIf not precisely the land of lost content, the rubble strewn backwater of the Birmingham canal network, with its scrapyards, stubs of old warehouse walls, and buddleia sprouting amid white-van parking spaces, is certainly the land of lost mischief for Roger Hiorns. The artist is on course to bury a Boeing 737 seven metres under its
  
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• Marion Ackermann named new general director of Dresden State Art Collections

  21-04-2016 15:06
  
  Marion Ackermann, currently artistic director of North Rhine-Westphalia’s art collections, will replace Hartwig Fischer as director of Dresden’s dazzling collections, overseeing 14 museums and art treasures ranging from Raphael’s Sistine Madonna to the Gerhard Richter archive.Fischer took up his new post as director of the British Museum on 1 April. Ackermann begins her Dresden role on 1 November. A specialist in 20th-century and contemporary art, she has curated exhibitions o
  
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• Morning Links: Ace Gallery Edition

  21-04-2016 14:41 via artnews.com
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• Art Basel Announces Film Program, Featuring Jonas Mekas and Pierre Bismuth

  21-04-2016 14:21 via artnews.com
  It was in the cold of early February when we received word about the slate of galleries participating in Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland. Now that we’re closer to that ever-important fair, there’s another Art Basel programming announcement. This time, it’s … Read More
  
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• Andy Warhol exhibitions in London examine Pop artist from different perspectives

  21-04-2016 13:41
  
  An opportunity to view an expansive collection of work by a Pop Art icon'
  
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• Gender-blind Shakespeare: classic roles to be taken by women

  21-04-2016 13:08
  
  Actresses to play King Lear, Henry V and Malvolio
  
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• Damien Hirst and Tate reject speculation that formaldehyde fumes were risky

  21-04-2016 13:08
  
  A scientific research team that monitored the levels of formaldehyde at an exhibition of works by Damien Hirst held at Tate Modern in 2012 says that readings of the chemical in the gallery were in excess of European regulations.The scientists recorded readings of formaldehyde at five parts per million (EU regulations set the limit at 0.5 parts per million); their findings are published online by the London-based Royal Society of Chemistry.
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• In death, an artist and a young woman meet

  21-04-2016 13:00
  
  Without the rape and murder of a fellow University of Iowa student, artist Ana Mendieta may never have achieved fame. Mendieta’s own mysterious death at age 36 still resonates with many but few remember her inspiration, Sarah OttensAt the back left corner of a pitch-black room, a woman’s face flickers on a television screen. Her eyes are closed, her lips are full, her skin speckled with pockmarks and moles. Her face is bare at first. Then, slowly over time, blood pours out of her sca
  
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• The Queen's image: how portrayals of Elizabeth II have changed over the past 90 years

  21-04-2016 11:43
  
  Queen Elizabeth II must be the single most visually recorded human being in history. Literally millions of images of her exist as she has lived through a century which has witnessed a media explosion.That was already under way in the year that she was born, in 1926, for the inherited forms of disseminating the royal likeness had already extended beyond coins, banknotes, seals, medals, sculpture and paintings to embrace photography and its use in newspapers and magazines. During her lifetime, fi
  
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• Bonn and Bern postpone Gurlitt exhibition as court decision on will drags out

  21-04-2016 11:22
  
  Art museums in Bonn and Bern have been forced to postpone plans for a joint exhibition of Cornelius Gurlitt’s controversial art collection after a court in Munich said it would not rule on a challenge to Gurlitt’s will until after September.Gurlitt died in 2014, leaving the cache of around 1,500 works he had inherited from his father—some of them looted by the Nazis—to the Bern Kunstmuseum in his will. His cousin Uta Werner challenged that bequest on the basis that the e
  
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• Johan Kobborg Returns To Romania’s National Ballet After Government Deal

  21-04-2016 10:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Following a firestorm at the Bucharest National Opera that culminated in the near-collapse of the ballet season and the intervention of the prime minister, the culture minister has reinstated Kobborg as the ballet’s artistic director and brought back, for a three-month interim period, the general manager whose departure (due to corruption charges) precipitated the entire mess.
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• Top five London gardens designed by Capability Brown

  21-04-2016 10:24
  
  England is celebrating its most famous landscape architect Lancelot “Capability” Brown (1716-83) this year, with events staged across the country to mark the tercentenary of his birth. But you don’t necessarily have to go traipsing out to the countryside to places such as Blenheim Palace, Harewood House or Warwick Castle to see evidence of the British landscape designer’s work—he is associated with around 37 gardens in Greater London and 12 within the capital city
  
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• Koons’s kitschy kids and Dubuffet’s beard lead New York sales at Phillips

  21-04-2016 10:00
  
  Works by Jean Dubuffet and Jeff Koons will headline Phillips' contemporary evening auction on 8 May, the official start to the big spring auction season in New York.
  The works are the front-line soldiers in a heated battle for collector dollars among the New York auction houses. Phillips faces extra competition this year since Christie’s has once again scheduled a third auction—for the same night as the one at Phillips’—adding to a week that has already crammed all six sa
  
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• Mona Lisa smile 'based on Leonardo da Vinci's gay lover', claims art historian

  21-04-2016 09:45
  
  Silvano Vinceti believes the famous painting is an amalgamation of two models: Lisa Gherardini and Gian Giacomo Caprotti
  
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• Mona Lisa smile 'based on his gay lover', claims Leonardo da Vinci art historian

  21-04-2016 09:45
  
  Silvano Vinceti believes the famous painting is an amalgamation of two models: Lisa Gherardini and Gian Giacomo Caprotti
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.20.16

  21-04-2016 07:44 via feedproxy.google.com
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  ‘Could you tell these were by women choreographers?’ asked my neighbour during an interval of English National Ballet’s She Said. Good question. How would you know? Could you tell that the opera I saw … read more
  >AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2016-04-20Embodying The Erased Father
  Nora Chipaumire premieres a new work,  portrait of myself as my father, at Montclair State University’s Peak Performances. … read more
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• Photographers show that refugee crisis is bigger than any one country

  21-04-2016 05:52
  
  The Annenberg Foundation takes a wider view of the global refugee crisis in an exhibition at its Los Angeles photography space. Simply titled Refugee (23 April-21 August), the show features 83 works by established artists and young students, depicting displaced communities and individuals from Bangladesh, Croatia, Greece, Mexico, Myanmar, Serbia, Slovenia, Cameroon, Germany and the US.
  The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has fully backed the five artists involved in the sh
  
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• Art institutions unite for new biennial survey of contemporary Australian art

  21-04-2016 05:21
  
  Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and Museum of Contemporary Art to hold joint biennial exhibition in SydneyThree major Sydney art institutions – the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) – have announced a partnership for a series of biennial exhibitions in Sydney, which will survey “the latest ideas and forms in contemporary Australian art”.The National: New Australian Art, announced on Tuesd
  
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• What Australia needs to learn from Victoria's arts funding push

  21-04-2016 04:02
  
  An extra $115m has been pledged for Victoria’s creative industries – if NSW and federal governments want to catch up, they have a long way to goOh, Melbourne, you little creative petri dish, you; you’ve outshone Sydney again.On Tuesday, Daniels Andrews’ Labor government pledged an extra $115m in funding for the creative industries, to be spent over the next four years. On the eve of the 3 May federal budget – that time of year our Canberra leaders now traditionally
  
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• Turns Out That How Our Brains Process Music Is Complicated. Thus The Seating Chart For Orchestras

  21-04-2016 03:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The seating arrangement of modern orchestras mirrors the listening bias of human ears. The ears project to the opposite brain hemisphere’s auditory cortex, which is where the listening bias originates.”
  
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• City Of Vancouver Opens Up Cultural Facilities To Homeless Arts Amateurs

  21-04-2016 02:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Rent is only one barrier a community group faces to being in a venue. It is actually the easiest barrier to remove. Real progress would be made if we could help arts organizations with these hard costs. Rent is about paying utility bills; these other costs are about paying people.”
  
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• Barn Renovation Leads To Discovery Of Important Roman Villa

  21-04-2016 01:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The electricians started drilling and hit a hard layer 18 inches below the surface. It was found to consist of pieces of mosaic. “We knew the significance of that straight away,” added Irwin. “No one since the Romans has laid mosaics as house floors in Britain. Fortunately we were able to stop the workmen just before they began to wield pickaxes to break up the mosaic layer.”
  
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• Why Does So Much Arts Criticism Wallow In Personal Struggle? (Who Cares?)

  21-04-2016 00:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Contemporary criticism is positively crowded with first-person pronouns, micro-doses of memoir, brief hits of biography. Critics don’t simply wrestle with their assigned cultural object; they wrestle with themselves, as well. “
  
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