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• Nadav Kander at Flowers Gallery, New York

  28-04-2016 23:13 via artnews.com
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• What does a female artist have to do to get a major solo show?

  28-04-2016 23:00
  Also last month in the UK, the Tate trustee and philanthropist Elisabeth Murdoch launched a £100,000 award for mid-career female artists. New research by the Freelands Foundation, which Murdoch established last year, shows that notwithstanding high-profile exhibitions, such as Marlene Dumas’s show at Tate Modern last year, male artists had 75% of the solo shows in London’s major venues in 2014/15. “I always knew that the art world was pretty male-dominated and that I want
  
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• Vision, virtuosity, versatility: on Hellenistic bronzes

  28-04-2016 23:00
  
  Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World was created to be both the accompanying text for the exhibition of the same title and its long-lasting legacy. A major event for the world of ancient Greek and Roman art, this remarkable exhibition brought together more than 50 fine bronzes, most of them large-scale and many of them strikingly juxtaposed for the first time. All the works demonstrate the extraordinary vision, as well as the skills and virtuosity of the Hellenistic artis
  
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• Pomp in print, pomp at play: princely splendour in two Viennese exhibitions

  28-04-2016 23:00
  
  Throughout the Early Modern period (from around the late 15th through the late 18th centuries), monarchs and lesser rulers built and decorated their palaces with an intention to impress others with their wealth, power and taste. For the past 30 years much art-historical research has gone into these collections and those who gathered them, but recently, perhaps under pressure of literary interest in “reader-response”, historians have turned their attention to the nature of and intent
  
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• Peculiar people in Southend, chin-stroking at Tate Britain, af Klint’s hallucinogenic flower forms and more in this week’s exhibition round-up

  28-04-2016 23:00
  
  Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen, Serpentine Gallery, London (until 15 May)Yes, she was making abstract paintings before all the big (male) names of 20th- century Modernism—having been “instructed” during a séance by a spirit guide in 1904—but it is the quality and originality of her work that makes the reclusive spiritualist Hilma af Klint so much more than just a rediscovered artistic curio. (In any case, her academic training and career as portrait painter a
  
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• MoMA offers buyout programme to employees nearing retirement

  28-04-2016 23:00
  The Museum of Modern Art is offering a voluntary buyout programme for employees considering retirement, ahead of a major building project. News of the decision, which leaked following a recent all-staff meeting, came as a surprise for many.Last week, MoMA received a $100m donation from the producer and collector David Geffen, and a wing of MoMA's new expansion will be named after him. Of the buyouts MoMA said in a statement: "The Museum of Modern Art is offering its employees who are 55 yea
  
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• Kerry James Marshall: driven to make a difference

  28-04-2016 23:00
  Kerry James Marshall has worked for the past 35 years with a singular goal in mind: to place the black figure squarely at the centre of the art canon. He has made much headway, as can be seen in his first major painting retrospective, which opened last month at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and will then travel to the Met Breuer in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (LA MoCA).
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• Richard Smith obituary

  28-04-2016 20:26
  
  Artist whose work was a unique fusion of abstract values and contemporary subject matterThe artist Richard Smith, who has died aged 84, was one of the most original painters of his generation, and one of the most underrated. He was a truly transatlantic figure who enjoyed huge commercial and critical success in the US and Britain during the 1960s and 70s. Early on, his art bridged the apparent gap between abstraction and pop art, the sophistication of his paintings revealing the inadequacy of su
  
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• Law and disorder: Russian protest artist calls prostitutes as witnesses

  28-04-2016 20:23
  
  The Russian protest artist Pyotr Pavlensky, known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square and setting fire to the doors of the KGB, has shocked yet again: this time by inviting prostitutes to testify on his behalf in the criminal trial against him. Yelena Posadskikh, whose revealing dress caused a stir in Moscow’s Preobrazhensky Court on Wednesday, said on the stand that she works in “sales”. She said she had been approached several weeks ago in a cafe by a Pavlensky’s law
  
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• Duke Riley on his Airborne Project for Creative Time, Starring Thousands of His Beloved Pigeons

  28-04-2016 20:22 via artnews.com
  If Duke Riley never brought ink to paper, never went to art school, and never signed with a Chelsea gallery, he would still be known as one of the reigning outlaw party-throwers and provocateurs in New York.There was The Dead Horse … Read More
  
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• Lacma nearly halfway to goal for new building with two pledges totalling $75m

  28-04-2016 19:56
  
  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) is the latest US museum to announce a major private funding windfall—two pledged gifts, totalling $75m, towards its $600m campaign for a new Peter Zumthor-designed building to house its permanent collection.
  The resort magnate Elaine Wynn, who has been on the museum’s board since 2011 and served as its co-chair since June 2015, has pledged $50m, and A. Jerrold Perenchio, the former chairman and CEO of Univision, has pledged $25m. In Novem
  
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• ‘An Incongruous Object’: Cornelia Parker on Her Met Commission, a Hitchcock-Inspired Barn on the Roof

  28-04-2016 19:32 via artnews.com
  English artist Cornelia Parker’s Transitional Object (PsychoBarn), currently installed on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is a genre-busting showstopper. Parker has modestly called her 28-foot-tall sculpture, which is visible from pathways in Central Park, … Read More
  
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• Lost Score To Missing Malcolm Arnold Symphony Discovered On EBay

  28-04-2016 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is thought that Sir Malcolm Arnold, a manic depressive, schizophrenic and alcoholic, could have given the work away in lieu of payment to a plumber or repairman, after the Court of Protection stopped him accessing his bank account.
  
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• Jodie Foster’s Entire Career Has Been Motivated By Fear Of Failure

  28-04-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Oh my God, yeah. If Mother Teresa is propelled to do good works because she believes in God, I am propelled to do good works because of how bad I feel about myself. It’s the first place I go. ‘Oh, what did I do wrong?'”
  
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• Odd: Why Are Our Actors Of A Different Color A Different Color?

  28-04-2016 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You don’t see Leonardo DiCaprio, Sandra Bullock, and Tom Cruise painting their faces to win roles, but this color-changing gambit has practically become required of black dramatic actors who want to appear in big-budget movies.”
  
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• Wim Delvoye to Open a Gallery in Kashan, Iran

  28-04-2016 18:49 via artnews.com
  The Art Newspaper reported today that Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is in the process of restoring five mansions in Kashan, a city located in the Iranian desert, in order to open a 2,953 square-foot gallery in one of them. Here, … Read More
  
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• Gay Dance Clubs Decline As The Culture Moves On

  28-04-2016 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The new generation just doesn’t support large dance clubs. They spend money on special events I do, like my RuPaul’s Drag Race, Pride and Halloween events. But the days of the weekly dance party are over, at least for now.”
  
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• The Man Behind the Screen: Ed Atkins at the Kitchen, New York

  28-04-2016 18:19 via artnews.com
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• What Does Isabelle Huppert Think About While She’s Acting? Nothing

  28-04-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In fact, when I act I don’t think about anything. My acting depends on the staging: you know, you put the camera in front of me, and I do it.”
  
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• Liverpool Biennial will put Ancient Greece into contemporary art show

  28-04-2016 17:05
  
  Tate Liverpool turns to ancient Greece during the ninth Liverpool Biennial this summer (9 July-16 October), with an exhibition of classical sculptures and artefacts drawn from the collection of National Museums Liverpool. Contemporary artists, including Andreas Angelidakis and Jumana Manna, will show new works at Tate alongside objects from antiquity amassed during the early 19th century by the Lancastrian collector Henry Blundell, which are now in the port city's collection.One of Liverpool Bi
  
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• When A Robot Kills, Is It Murder Or Product Liability?

  28-04-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Responding to a new short story about a robot who/that kills her/its owner, a legal scholar considers issues of robotics law that will arise sooner or later.
  
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• You Can’t Handle The Truth: Reality Is *Nothing* Like What We Experience With Our Senses, Argues Cognitive Scientist

  28-04-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sure, when we stop and think about it, we realize with a jolt that what we perceive is never the world directly, but rather our brain’s best guess at what that world is like … Still, we bank on the fact that our simulation is a reasonably decent one. If it wasn’t, wouldn’t evolution have weeded us out by now?” Rather the opposite, says Donald Hoffman: humans evolved as we did because our brains couldn’t process the world as it is (or not all of it).
  
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• Unlimited Section at Art Basel in Basel to Include El Anatsui, Stan Douglas

  28-04-2016 16:13 via artnews.com
  Unlimited, the Art Basel platform allotted for large-scale and unconventional artworks, will be showing a record 88 projects from participating galleries this year. Gianni Jetzer, curator-at-large at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, is heading the section for the fifth … Read More
  
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• Phyllida Barlow: an artistic outsider who has finally come inside

  28-04-2016 16:05
  
  Unrecognised for much of her career, the 72-year-old was recently chosen as the UK’s representative at the 2017 Venice BiennaleAs recently as 10 years ago, the artist Phyllida Barlow was not selling work and no gallery was collecting it. In the past it was normal for her to leave a sculpture in the street and see what happened, or to break into a disused factory to install something nobody would see.She was not represented by a commercial gallery, and her artworks – made from throwaw
  
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• Will We Ever Be Able To Send Smells Through Our Smartphones?

  28-04-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s certainly possible: inventors have been working on ways to add aromas to telecommunications for 25 years or so. Yet the products have never caught on with the public. One part of the problem is “olfactory illiteracy”; another is for inventors to understand why and how users would use scents to communicate.
  
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• 30 Years Of Chernobyl In Literature

  28-04-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Through three decades of literary response, Chernobyl has undermined the sort of authoritative depiction that might bring closure. But something closed can be forgotten. The finest works express profound doubts about the power of language to absorb a disaster of this magnitude, and so continually reopen it to new ways of being remembered.”
  
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• Gay-Themed Bollywood Films Challenge Indian Taboos

  28-04-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Bollywood has a long history of portraying gay characters with clichés or using them as an ostensibly comic sideshow. Often they are sexual predators whom the male leads, epitomes of heterosexual masculinity, must be wary of. But several recent movies have challenged those stereotypes, suggesting that attitudes in India’s movie industry, or at least within an influential section of it, may be changing.”
  
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• This Year’s Tonys Could Be The Opposite Of #OscarsSoWhite

  28-04-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The slate of nominees for 2016’s Broadway awards looks likely to be the most diverse in history – and not only because of Hamilton.
  
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• Utah Symphony, Once Foundering, Is On An Upswing, Thanks In Part To Government Funding (!)

  28-04-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The orchestra – which has a popular and energetic music director (Thierry Fischer), big education and state touring programs, and growth in both single-ticket sales and subscriptions – gets nearly a fifth of its operating revenue from state and local governments.
  
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• Melbourne Symphony Posts Both Record Attendance And Deficit

  28-04-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The $577,653 deficit, detailed in its annual report, comes after the MSO ended 2014 with more than $200,000 in surplus. The orchestra actually increased its box office takings last year ($10.2 million up from $10 million) but chairman Michael Ullman said it wasn’t enough.”
  
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• Morning Links: Jeopardy Edition

  28-04-2016 14:35 via artnews.com
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• Dance World Reels From Dismissals At Pennsylvania Ballet

  28-04-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Within hours of the [Inquirer] article being published, it spread like wildfire among dancers on social media. Many were outraged. Others expressed sympathy for the company members who were let go. But I’ve also seen comments from Philadelphians who are very happy with Angel’s vision and welcome the changes. It’s a big change, and one I’d say many expected.” Which makes it no easier for the now-out-of-work dancers.
  
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• Is This How The Civil War At Romania’s National Ballet Got Started?

  28-04-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The conflict over Johan Kobborg’s job as artistic director of the Bucharest National Opera’s ballet company has spun out of control. Craig Turp traces the seeds of the trouble to a right-wing nationalist website, and he gives a solid recap and analysis in English of how the mess has unfolded so far.
  
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• Billionaire Didn’t Realize Her Picasso Had Been Stolen Until A Dealer Tried To Sell It

  28-04-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Billie Tisch (widow of Laurence Tisch of Loews Corp. and CBS) has sued South Florida art dealer Kenneth Hendel for the return of a 1928 portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter that she last saw in 2009 but didn’t know had been taken until a few weeks ago. Hendel insists he purchased the painting lawfully and has legal title to it.
  
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• ISIS Destroys Two City Gates In Nineveh

  28-04-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “National Geographic has received exclusive photographs that appear to confirm the destruction of the Mashki and Nergal Gates by the Islamic State (ISIS) at the ancient site of Nineveh in Iraq.”
  
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• The most iconic 20th century fashion photography to be auctioned at Sotheby's – in pictures

  28-04-2016 13:44
  
  With works by Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh and Guy Bourdin, as well as contemporary photographers such as Miles Aldridge and David LaChapelle, these are arguably the images which defined modern fashion photography as we know itThrough the Lens: Fashion Photography Under The Spotlight At Sotheby’s is on sale on 19 May
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• Schoolchildren's strike puts Liverpool Biennial on the march

  28-04-2016 13:42
  
  Artist Koki Tanaka aims to recreate 1985 demonstration in which 10,000 pupils skipped school to protest against YTSA 1985 demonstration at which 10,000 schoolchildren skipped school to protest against the Conservative government’s controversial Youth Training Scheme (YTS), is to be revisited in a new mass-participation art project.The project, by the Japanese artist Koki Tanaka, will be part of this year’s Liverpool Biennial, the UK’s largest contemporary art festival which is
  
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• A Symphony For Tape Decks (Talk About Historical Instruments …)

  28-04-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No Sharps, No Flats is an installation made up of 30 partially deconstructed boom boxes with tape decks, each one containing a composition by metro D.C. musicians. All of the music is in C major. Harmonious? Not for long – because it’s all on cassette tape, which has problems you youngsters don’t know about and the rest of us may have forgotten …
  
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• London Olympic Park's Orbit Tower has been turned into the world's highest slide and now you can buy tickets

  28-04-2016 12:13
  
  It's 178m tall and goes round the sculpture 12 times.
  
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• Tannhäuser, Royal Opera House, review: 'Exquisitely-fashioned beauty'

  28-04-2016 11:42
  
  Tim Albery's production of Wagner's Tannhäuser fits well with modern times
  
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• Director of Collections & Exhibitions

  28-04-2016 10:00
  Salary:                     Competitive, commensurate with the responsibilities of the roleLocation:                 Chatsworth House, DerbyshireChatsworth House Trust is seeking to appoint a Director of Collections and Exhibitions. This is a newly expanded role which has responsibility for the Chatsworth Collections a
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.27.16

  28-04-2016 09:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  My Q&A with President Daniel Weiss–Part II: Financial Impact of Met Breuer & Planned New Wing
  While implicitly faulting the Metropolitan Museum’s administration for not having managed its operations “in a way that’s financially sustainable,” Daniel Weiss, who has been the Met’s president since July, diplomatically avoided … read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-04-27The Beyoncé challenge
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• Lego: refusing to sell bricks to Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was a mistake

  28-04-2016 07:53
  
  Toy company chiefs say order was blocked by employee who misinterpreted rule on political neutrality, but deny they were influenced by China concernsLego’s vice-chairman has called his company’s refusal to sell its bricks to Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei an “internal mistake”.Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, the grandson of the founder, told the Wall Street Journal that the company’s decision last year to decline a bulk order made on behalf of the artist, on the grou
  
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• Bruce McLean's best photograph: fun with three plinths the Tate forgot to take back

  28-04-2016 07:30
  
  ‘People call what I do performance art. But I’d rather be thought of as a dancer. I’m a very good dancer’My interest in plinths goes back to my student days at St Martin’s School of Art in the early 1960s. We were told that sculpture should go on the floor and not on plinths or pedestals – but I wasn’t going to be told what to do.Later, in 1971, I was invited by Situation, an art space off Brook Street in London, to make a show; the idea was to change th
  
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• At this rate art, craft and creativity will soon be as obsolete as BHS | Catherine Shoard

  28-04-2016 07:00
  
  Sophisticated algorithms can now predict the bestseller lists, paving the way for artificial intelligence to take over entirelyTempting as it is to lay as much blame as possible at the feet of Philip Green – a man whose 63rd birthday cake involved an edible version of himself, topless, in bed with his chihuahua, silk sheets recreated in sugar paste, gold candles fringing the mattress like a flaming cage – the decline of British Home Stores was not entirely his fault. Like Austin Reed
  
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• French Billionaire Francois Pinault To Build New Museum In Paris

  28-04-2016 01:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  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.
  
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• Counterintuitive: The Rise Of Pirate Radio Stations In The Age Of The Internet

  28-04-2016 00:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Helped along by cheaper technology, the rogue stations can cover several blocks or several square miles. Most broadcast to immigrant communities that pirate radio defenders say are underserved by licensed stations.”
  
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• Untitled(the whites are the ones to get the funding and then treat minorities like children.)

  28-04-2016 00:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  if a is in love with me how can she not see me for days?i was going out of my mind from loneliness. i sent my ex texts instructing herhow to be a good mother.amanda and i don’t talk about what we are going to do tomorrow or later this week. she doesn’t tell me what her schedule is this week. i’m looking at a void.i decide not to text her until she tells me what she wants to do. i don’t mind if she decides when i see her. i like it when she keeps me in the dark. hopefully
  
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