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• Bones Found Under Orchestra Pit In Cincinnati (Musician Worked To Death?)

  27-04-2016 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The bones were discovered March 29 by Aztec Services Group employees. Archeological group Gray and Pape examined the bones and confirmed that they were human skeletal remains, they said in a press release.”
  
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• ‘What to do next.’ at Life Sport, Athens

  27-04-2016 23:42 via artnews.com
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• UK Report: Jobs In The Arts Increased By 4% In 2015

  27-04-2016 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The data from the Office of National Statistics shows that 976,000 people now work in the sector, with separate data from 2015 showing that 460,000 people were working in artistic, literary and media jobs, including 77,000 authors and writers and 19,000 choreographers.”
  
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• ‘Zaha Hadid transformed our ideas of what architecture could be’

  27-04-2016 23:00
  
  Zaha Hadid, who died suddenly in March aged 65, transformed our ideas of what architecture might be. The first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize was born in Baghdad in 1950, moving to London in the early 1970s to pursue her architectural education. Hadid first made her name not by actually building but with paintings of her ideas. Her series of large, black-ground paintings won her the 1983 competition for The Peak Leisure Club in Hong Kong. The cantilevered, dynamic forms she depict
  
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• Wim Delvoye unveils plans for museum in historic Iranian city

  27-04-2016 23:00
  
  Kashan boasts some of the oldest temple remains, dated 6,000 or more years old, and traditional gardens that were the playground of Persian royals. The city has been claimed as the home of the Biblical three wise men.More recently, a group of Iranian women led an effort to restore several of Kashan’s famous mansions. Delvoye’s project was facilitated by Leila Varasteh and Vida Zaim, the curators of his exhibition in Tehran, and the restoration of the first house is due to be complete
  
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• The strange and illogical development of England's national art museums

  27-04-2016 23:00
  
  The news that Tate Modern’s new displays will include substantial representation of work beyond the Western canon, with artists from 57 countries, and will include more work by women, reflects a further episode in the strange, apparently illogical, development of national art collections in England (though not Scotland or Wales). It is a development that results from the steady expansion over generations of what was considered worth acquiring for the nation.
  The British Museum, the first
  
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• Sargent’s Poppies and Rockwell’s Road Block to lead Sotheby’s American art sales

  27-04-2016 23:00
  
  If any collectors are feeling gorged after next week’s big New York auctions of Modern and contemporary art, which run 8 May through 12 May, Sotheby’s will offer two works at its American Art sale on 18 May that may serve as a compelling digestif.
  The sale of 65 works will be lead by a large painting by John Singer Sargent and a detail-packed one by Norman Rockwell, both estimated to sell for $4m to $6m, which is impressive in this market. (Last year’s sale was led by Georgia
  
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• Frieze New York: welcome to the island

  27-04-2016 23:00
  
  May is when the art world flocks to Manhattan’s Randall’s Island for Frieze New York. Since its 2012 debut as an outpost of the original London event, Frieze has become New York’s leading art fair, drawing around 40,000 visitors last year.This year’s fifth edition marks the first New York iteration without the founding directors Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp at the helm. It will be led in their place by Victoria Siddall, who has worked closely with the two since 2004
  
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• Frieze New York 2016

  27-04-2016 23:00
  Our daily papers from Frieze New York, including news, analysis, interviews and live reporting from the fair
  
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• A timewarp in every room: French château Azay-le-Rideau restored

  27-04-2016 23:00
  
  The 19th-century interiors of one of France’s most spectacular château, Azay-le-Rideau in the Loire valley, have been recreated. Built between 1518 and 1527, Azay-le-Rideau was purchased by the French state in 1905; at the time it was furnished with an eclectic assortment of 16th- to 19th-century objects. These interiors “may be a disappointment for visitors”, said Philippe Bélaval, the head of the Centre des monuments nationaux (CMN), which manages the property.
  
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• English National Ballet Gets A New Executive Director

  27-04-2016 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Patrick Harrison is currently executive director of the Cambridge Arts Theatre. Prior to which he was director of commercial operations at the National Theatre.
  
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• 303 Gallery Reveals Details of its New Space on West 21st Street

  27-04-2016 22:33 via artnews.com
  Next week, 303 Gallery will head back to 21st Street and into a 12,000-square-foot space that takes up the first two floors of a 19-story luxury condominium designed by Foster + Partners, the firm founded by Pritzker Prize winner Norman … Read More
  
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• 303 Gallery Reveals Details of its New Space on W. 21st Street

  27-04-2016 22:33 via artnews.com
  Next week, 303 Gallery will head back to 21st Street and into a 12,000-square-foot space that takes up the first two floors of a 19-story luxury condominium designed by Foster + Partners, the firm founded by Pritzker Prize winner Norman … Read More
  
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• The Way We Release Movies In Theatres Hurts Independent Films

  27-04-2016 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A policy that’s centered on the concept of week-long theatrical release leaves out movies of significant artistic merit (such as “Losing Ground”) that don’t get a week-long run at all.”
  
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• Baroque Noir: David Reed at Peter Blum Gallery, New York

  27-04-2016 21:56 via artnews.com
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• Galeria Nara Roesler Now Represents Eduardo Navarro

  27-04-2016 21:54 via artnews.com
  Galeria Nara Roesler, which has spaces in New York and Rio de Janeiro, announced today that it now represents Eduardo Navarro, the Argentinian artist whose work memorably appeared in last year’s New Museum Triennial.In the past few years, Navarro’s performances … Read More
  
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• Romania’s Culture Minister Resigns Over Ballet Crisis (Yes, Crisis!)

  27-04-2016 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Vlad Alexandrescu announced that he would be stepping down in a posting on his Facebook page Wednesday, after he failed to solve a conflict at the Bucharest National Opera that has seen three shows canceled so far.”
  
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• Auction House to Put The Four Seasons’ Famed Banquettes on the Block

  27-04-2016 21:50 via artnews.com
  When collector Aby Rosen decided not to renew the lease of the Four Seasons, the iconic restaurant housed in the Seagram Building, he angered its high-profile regulars, many of whom had being lunching in the same Philip Johnson–designed booth in … Read More
  
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• Why Comcast Wants To Buy Dreamworks For $3 Billion

  27-04-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Comcast could make use of DreamWorks’ IP-rich vault in its theme parks as well as to feed its global film and TV pipelines. It’s understood that the deal on the table envisions bringing DWA into the Universal Pictures fold.”
  
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• Did Rousseau Have ADHD? (Sure Looks Like It)

  27-04-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In his autobiography, Confessions, the description is clear: ‘To understand the full extent of my delirium at this moment you would have to know how easily my heart is fired by the least thing and with what energy it plunges into imagining the object that attracts it, however worthless this object may sometimes be.'”
  
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• Craig Barton Joins School of Art Institute of Chicago as Top Academic Officer

  27-04-2016 20:59 via artnews.com
  The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has announced the appointment of its new provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, the institution’s chief academic officer.Craig Barton, who comes to SAIC from Arizona State University, will also … Read More
  
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• Subversive Opera That Hooks You Without You Realizing It

  27-04-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We created a show and pretended it was going to be a rock concert. Booked a rock venue and advertised it as an indie rock show. Made up the name Liederwolfe. Everyone in the Montreal scene was curious and it was packed. And then people came on stage and sang opera. People freaked out – it was a real happening – it was great. People were yelling, people walked out – but some people stayed. They brought their friends the next time. And they stayed with us and became our c
  
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• ISIS Destroys Mashki and Nergal Gates At Ancient Site of Ninevah

  27-04-2016 19:23 via artnews.com
  National Geographic reports that the Mashki and Nergal Gates at the ancient site of Ninevah in Iraq have been destroyed by ISIS, according to photos obtained by the magazine. Michael Danti, a professor of archaeology at Boston University and co-director … Read More
  
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• Joan Brown obituary

  27-04-2016 19:11
  
  My mother, Joan Brown, who has died aged 89, was an artist and potter who exhibited widely in Britain and occasionally abroad.Born in Aberdeen, she was the daughter of Walter Bruford, a codebreaker in both world wars and eventual professor of German at Cambridge, and his wife, Gerda (nee Hendrick), who gave art classes in Edinburgh after Walter was appointed professor there. Continue reading...
  
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• Barbara Windsor unveils portrait showing her rarely seen serious side

  27-04-2016 18:20
  
  ‘She looks like a proper woman,’ says Windsor on viewing the Dan Llywelyn Hall portrait for the first timeThe cloth covering fell and the actor Dame Barbara Windsor looked seriously at a portrait of a serious woman.“Wow, I look like a woman,” she said on first viewing of her newly unveiled portrait by Dan Llywelyn Hall. “I’m not saying I could have looked like a man - but she looks like a proper woman, she knows who she is and what she can do. I love it.&rdquo
  
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• Urs Fischer, a Big Fan of Going Big, Downsizes With Show at JTT on the Lower East Side

  27-04-2016 18:17 via artnews.com
  Last year, Urs Fischer installed the 46-foot-tall aluminum sculpture Big Clay #4 in front of the Seagram Building, where it towered over Park Avenue for months. In that same space in 2011, Fischer’s 23-foot-tall Untitled (Lamp/bear)—a monumental yellow teddy bear under … Read More
  
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• Tino Sehgal to bring live art to Marrakech

  27-04-2016 17:29
  The artist Tino Sehgal is bringing his famous brand of performance art to north Africa with an exhibition of his work due to open in Marrakech next month (13 May-5 June). The Berlin-based artist’s new project will go on show in the historic BAM building, the former Bank al Maghrib building on the Jemaa el-Fna square.
  “Sehgal will present choreographed sequences interpreted by dancers, showcasing contemporary work alongside more ancient practices,” says a press statement. &ldqu
  
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• New Paris museum to house billionaire's modern art collection

  27-04-2016 17:17
  
  François Pinault achieves long-held ambition to display his €1.2bn treasure trove in French capitalOne of the world’s biggest private art collections is to be housed in a new Paris museum close to the Louvre.François Pinault, the luxury goods billionaire who also owns Christie’s auction house, is taking over the Bourse de Commerce in the capital to show his €1.2bn collection of modern masters. Continue reading...
  
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• François Pinault Will Open a Private Museum in Paris

  27-04-2016 16:33 via artnews.com
  François Pinault, the founder of Kering, a French luxury goods holding company, will open a private museum in Paris. According to a release from Mairie de Paris, the Tadao Ando–redesigned space, which will be devoted to showing Pinault’s collection of … Read More
  
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• Kapoor keen for Boris to slide on to European soil

  27-04-2016 16:10
  
  Carsten Holler’s 178-metre tunnel slide will soon be wrapped around Anish Kapoor’s sculpture in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London. The eye-watering ride down the ArcelorMittal Orbit may not, at 76 metres high, be for the fainthearted. Thrill-seekers will be able to try the slide, which is dotted with windows, from 24 June for a £17 fee. Kapoor told The Belfast Telegraph that the outgoing London Mayor, Boris Johnson, should inaugurate the bendy-straw shaped slide,
  
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• Richard Tuttle: thinking big at a quiet moment

  27-04-2016 15:30
  
  When we say an artist is having a moment, we tend to think big—major commissions, large museum surveys, widespread gallery interest and so on. Yet there are also quiet, contemplative moments, ones that emerge absent of the artificial pressure of a public relations blitz. Richard Tuttle, the US post-Minimalist artist credited with softening the rigid square into something more casual, is having just such a moment in New York with two exhibitions, one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and t
  
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• Consumer Reports: Sydney Shen

  27-04-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Sydney Shen is an artist living and working in New York. She recently held her first solo exhibition at Interstate Projects in Brooklyn and has been a part of group exhibitions at venues including Lock-Up International, Frankfurt; Springsteen, Baltimore; and KnowMoreGames, … Read More
  
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• What drove Robert Mapplethorpe?

  27-04-2016 15:05
  
  What motivated Robert Mapplethorpe, in both a personal and professional capacity, is made clear in the documentary Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, produced by HBO. Throughout the riveting chronological survey—from his suburban upbringing in Queens, New York, to his death from an AIDs-related illness in 1989—contributors such as lovers, sitters, studio assistants and close friends point out that ambition was everything for the late artist.The filmmaker Sandy Daley was a neighbour
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Lemonade’ Edition

  27-04-2016 14:54 via artnews.com
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• The National Gallery's new boss: 'I can't deny I am strongly European'

  27-04-2016 14:42
  
  Raised in Catford but speaking and eating Italian, gallery director Gabriele Finaldi talks Brexit, strikes – and why art collectors have forgotten how to giveUntil 23 June, Britain will be enjoying, or enduring, a debate about its relationship with Europe. If the early days of the campaign are anything to go by, the debate will be bounded by rival predictions about the future of Britain’s economy. But as I walk through the National Gallery with its new director, Gabriele Finaldi, it
  
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• Being creative goes hand-in-hand with being a psychopath, study claims

  27-04-2016 13:45
  
  Emotional disinhibition, in the form of psychopathic boldness, is 'integral to some creative personalities'
  
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• François Pinault to realise long-held ambition of opening Paris museum

  27-04-2016 12:38
  
  The French billionaire art collector François Pinault announced today (27 April) that he plans to open a new museum in the heart of Paris to show his collection and stage contemporary art shows. In a deal struck with the city, Pinault will take over the historical Bourse du Commerce (commodity stock exchange) building, which is close to the Louvre. The opening is scheduled for the end of 2018. Pinault, who announced the news with his son, François Henri Pinault
  
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• V&A Museum to showcase intricate Medieval embroidery in new exhibition

  27-04-2016 12:16
  
  Potbellied dragons and gilded lions sticking out their tongue
  
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• Georg Baselitz review – colossal study of ageing, sex and death

  27-04-2016 10:58
  
  White Cube, Bermondsey
  The 78-year-old’s Germanic imagination remains as courageous as ever with this visceral and erotic exhibition that unearths perverse beauty in human declineThey are leathered by time. Their skins resemble discarded walnut shells. They might be bodies excavated from a peat bog, millennia old, or yesterday’s fruit peelings given a burial among the coffee grounds. Or perhaps these ancient humans, hanging upside down and side by side, are corpses from Pompeii or vi
  
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• The Earthlings’ Imprint: ‘Imagined Futures’ at Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle

  27-04-2016 08:05 via artnews.com
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• Public house music: Mark Fell on making art in a derelict pub

  27-04-2016 08:00
  
  In the dark days of the 1980s, ravers in Sheffield discovered politics, pirate radio and MDMA. Mark Fell explains why he’s channelling Heidegger for his installation on an infamous Sheffield estateRelated: Sheffield's Park Hill: the tangled reality of an extraordinary brutalist dream Built in 1961 in a Sheffield buoyed by steel, Park Hill housing estate was a utopian vision of “streets in the sky”, where slums were cleared to make modern blocks with walkways wide enough for mil
  
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• Public house music: Mark Fell on making art in a derelict boozer

  27-04-2016 08:00
  
  In the dark days of the 1980s, ravers in Sheffield discovered politics, pirate radio and MDMA. Mark Fell explains why he’s channelling Heidegger for his installation on an infamous Sheffield estateRelated: Sheffield's Park Hill: the tangled reality of an extraordinary brutalist dream Built in 1961 in a Sheffield buoyed by steel, Park Hill housing estate was a utopian vision of “streets in the sky”, where slums were cleared to make modern blocks with walkways wide enough for mil
  
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• Janine Antoni gets wrapped up in her work at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop

  27-04-2016 05:15
  
  Ally, an art and dance project at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, is “not your normal exhibition”, says the artist-in-residence Janine Antoni. Working with the choreographer Stephen Petronio and Anna Halprin, the 95-year-old Postmodern dance performer who helped pioneer the genre in the 1960s, Antoni has created a programme of performances, as well as installations and sculptures that take up four floors of the museum. The multi-disciplinary project aims to “sh
  
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• Shanghai museum dedicated to 20th-century artist reopens in new venue

  27-04-2016 03:23
  
  Shanghai’s Liu Haisu Art Museum reopened in April after three years of construction in its 12,000 sq m new premises. Originally opened in 1995, and dedicated to the 20th-century painter and educator after which it was named, the institution was one of the first museums in the city to show Chinese contemporary artists. The museum, which is run by the local municipality, will continue to follow a dual track, says a spokesman, of showing works by Liu and his contemporaries and providing a sh
  
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• Crumbs and all: Prince Harry, Hillary Clinton and Julia Gillard have cutlery swiped for exhibition

  27-04-2016 03:00
  
  For 15 years activist Van T Rudd, nephew of the former PM, has been collecting used forks from the world’s most powerfulCollecting unwashed forks might seem like a strange artistic practice but, with friends in the right places (read: working at luxury catering companies), it takes on a whole new meaning. Related: Art institutions unite for new biennial survey of contemporary Australian artRelated: David Hockney's iPad art among 700 of his works to show in MelbourneContinue reading...
  
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