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• The moment 17 Old Master paintings were uncovered on Turunchuk island

  15-05-2016 23:00
  Ukraine’s State border guards have released astonishing video footage of the moment they uncovered the 17 Old Master paintings stolen from the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona last November. The works by Jacopo Tintoretto, Pisanello, Peter Paul Rubens and others were wrapped in black plastic bags and hidden in shrubbery on an island near the Moldovan border.
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• ‘One of Picasso’s greatest Cubist portraits’ up for auction at Sotheby’s

  15-05-2016 23:00
  
  One of Picasso’s most important Cubist works, Femme Assise (1909), will go under the hammer next month at Sotheby’s London (21 June, Impressionist and Modern art evening sale). The painting has been consigned by a private collector who acquired it at auction in 1973 at Sotheby’s in London.
   
  Helena Newman, the global co-head of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art department, says: “It is several decades since a Cubist painting of this calibre has been offer
  
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• Italy squanders hundreds of millions in EU grants

  15-05-2016 23:00
  
  The southern Italian regions of Sicily, Calabria and Campania have failed to spend hundreds of millions of euros in European Union (EU) culture and tourism funding, according to our sister newspaper Il Giornale dell’Arte. Elsewhere in Italy, Lombardy and Tuscany in the north and Basilicata and Puglia in the south are using between 70% and 80% of their allocated EU culture funding, in line with many EU countries.
  Sicily and Naples have emerged as the worst offenders. The EU has withdrawn &
  
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• Italy squanders €150m in EU grants

  15-05-2016 23:00
  
  The southern Italian regions of Sicily, Calabria and Campania have failed to spend hundreds of millions of euros in European Union (EU) culture and tourism funding, according to our sister newspaper Il Giornale dell’Arte. Elsewhere in Italy, Lombardy and Tuscany in the north and Basilicata and Puglia in the south are using between 70% and 80% of their allocated EU culture funding, in line with many EU countries.
  Sicily and Naples have emerged as the worst offenders. The EU has withdrawn &
  
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• Cheyenne Westphal to take up new role as chairman of Phillips

  15-05-2016 23:00
  
  One of Sotheby’s top dealmakers, Cheyenne Westphal, has been appointed the chairman of Phillips. Westphal, who left her position as worldwide head of contemporary art at Sotheby’s last month, is due to start at Phillips in 2017. Ed Dolman, the auction house’s chief executive and chairman, will relinquish his title when Westphal arrives.Westphal, who joined Sotheby’s in 1990, has overseen every major contemporary art sale in Europe since 1999. Dubbed “Sotheby’
  
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• Doug’s List: Last Week’s Eye-Catching AJ Stories, Playing God Edition

  15-05-2016 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Disrupting the orchestra model, doing away with artistic directors, a cure for what ails the Met Opera, how our ideas about knowledge are changing, and recreating Leonardo (no kidding!)
  
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• This Week In Audience: New Audience V. Old Audience Edition

  15-05-2016 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A confluence of stories this week that rocket between new and old, digital and physical. Physical books making a comeback while e-book sales fall. Downloads collapsing as streaming takes hold. Transitions sure are messy…
  
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• Print Was Never Dead, But It’s Rising Again Anyway

  15-05-2016 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Publishing, like other industries before (and since), suffered a bad attack of technodazzle: It failed to distinguish between newness and value. It could read digital’s hysterical cheerleaders, but not predict how a market of human beings would respond to a product once the novelty had passed. It ignored human nature. Reading the meaning of words is not consuming a manufacture: it is experience.”
  
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• The Trend Of ‘Beer And Ballet’

  15-05-2016 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You can see the dancers, watch them work their butts off, and have a good time. It’s a bonding experience for the dancers, too, because they get together and have a beer and hang out.”
  
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• The Curator Who Doesn’t Stop Going To Work Just Because He’s Retired

  15-05-2016 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Joe Rishel, the man who guided and transformed the Philadelphia Museum of Art during his decades there, is“now simply emeritus curator of European painting – a curator who comes in at 10 in the morning, not 9, and doesn’t wear a tie.”
  
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• Why The Director Of Last Year’s Oscar-Nominated ‘Mustang’ Says She Can’t Work In Her Country Anymore

  15-05-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The situation for women in Turkey is, [Mustang director Deniz Gamze Ergüven] believes, now very grave, for which reason she is happy for her film to be regarded as a contribution to the increasingly muscular and conflicted debate surrounding their rights, their freedom.”
  
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• In A Snapchat World, Does Queer Poetry Still Matter?

  15-05-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Queerness was present in poetry long before queer was queer or gay was gay.”
  
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• So, With A New Mayor In London, That Whole Garden Bridge Thing Is In Serious Trouble

  15-05-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The new mayor’s intervention could derail a project that has attracted considerable criticism. The proposed bridge has secured vast sums of public money despite being initially promoted as entirely private-funded. It has recently been bedevilled by accusations that its designer was selected before the actual tender process began.”
  
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• What Billionaires Do With Their Sometimes Huge Pieces Of Contemporary Art

  15-05-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Faced with putting paintings in storage or donating artworks to museums, which rarely exhibit them, a solution — especially for collectors in cities like Los Angeles, land of rolling lawns — has become the backyard museum, complete with high-tech lighting, humidity controls and 25-foot ceilings.”
  
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• How The Toronto Symphony Conquered Digital Marketing

  15-05-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For example, the TSO introduced online chat functionality to its website, enabling patrons to receive real-time customer support in both official languages as well as other languages including Mandarin. Its first week in operation produced more than 200 chat sessions.”
  
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• What’s London’s Smallest Theatre? (That Depends On Your Real Question)

  15-05-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The answers include basements, pubs, barges … and petite commercial West End spaces as well.
  
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• What I think about Tate Modern: artists, musicians and critics give their views

  15-05-2016 11:00
  
  As Tate Modern gets ready to unveil its massive new extension, famous gallery-goers reflect on its influence on British art and cultural life• Herzog and De Meuron: Tate Modern’s architects on their radical new extensionContinue reading...
  
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• Herzog and De Meuron: Tate Modern’s architects on their radical new extension

  15-05-2016 11:00
  
  Twenty years ago, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron converted London’s Bankside power station into a gallery. Now they are about to unveil the Switch House – and reinvent how we view art all over again• What I think about Tate Modern: artists, musicians and critics give their views
  Jacques Herzog, the more talkative half of the pair of boyhood friends who founded the architectural practice Herzog & De Meuron, is worried about the world. “The things based on the five
  
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• Obama's 'Hope' poster artist says president has been too quiet

  15-05-2016 09:37
  
  Shepard Fairey, creator of image that defined Democrat’s 2008 campaign, says Obama could have done moreThe artist behind Barack Obama’s famous Hope campaign poster has accused the US president of failing to live up to expectations by being too quiet on controversial issues. Shepard Fairey, who created the image for the 2008 presidential election campaign, said Obama had “gone quiet on a lot of things” during his two terms in the White House.Related: Barack Obama in surpri
  
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• My Back to Nature by George Shaw review – darkness at the edge of town

  15-05-2016 09:00
  
  National Gallery, London
  Resident artist George Shaw channels the old masters and his inescapable Midlands roots to profound effect – and in humble HumbrolThere is a sequence of self-portraits by the entrance to George Shaw’s riveting exhibition at the National Gallery showing the artist stripped bare and under terrible duress. Looking at these powerful charcoal images, it is not immediately clear what is going on. Shaw appears leaning, staggering, bowed and stumbling beneath some in
  
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• Untitled(I Scare When Someone Else Is Scared For Me)

  15-05-2016 00:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i feel like pessoa’s bookkeeper who lives with and without hope. the green trees keep one eye closed in a breeze. i’m not that scared. they wanted to take me to the emergency room when they checked my bp(blood pressure) five years ago. april the doc at zoom care said there was a risk in not having me as an in-patient. i guess they can’t help me if i get a heart attack. i don’t want to have to stay for an extended stay in a hospital while they figure out how to lower my bp
  
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• Untitled(I Remember Black And White Creature Feature Film Stills When I Talk To Amanda About Superbugs and Antibiotics)

  15-05-2016 00:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  h has a rose on each thigh. i like how thin and tall she is. i think she feels adequate.she has her life. she thinks about it like any other person has to to keep it in line. she’s not unfamiliar with confusion, dread, and suffering. it hurt me to see her smoke. i think i would be less lonely and horny if i smoked.i think they can tell i spend my time alone. they think i have social issues. i don’t know what they think or feel. i’m not supposed to tell them what they feel. aman
  
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• Untitled(different body types walk their dog in the late afternoon.)

  15-05-2016 00:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  j is walking in the portland rain. he has a blue back pack, a black sweat shirt, black socks and black sneakers on. he has a roommate. his name is brian. they live in a small apartment on 24 th avenue. brian has a red beard. he wears mascara. they are close.they both volunteer at the holly wood theater. brian wants to write a book about himself and j. j keeps a journal. brian is bipolar. he falls in love and then wants to share it with other lovers. b and his lovers look like each other.j likes
  
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