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• Untitled(she accrued bills that she wasn’t able to pay at the jail.)

  19-05-2016 23:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i wanted to eat bad food and watch crap t.v.. i took my blood pressure at the pharmacy. it was lower than when the doc at primary zoom care took it. i thought about my stepfather. he has high cholesterol and takes pills for it. i don’t have high cholesterol. he has a blond german american physical therapist/ trainer who gives him exercises to strengthen his knees and shoulders. the gay man who drew my blood had a way of looking and not looking. i noticed he had dark blue rims that were the
  
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• Rebecca Rabinow Named Director at Menil Collection

  19-05-2016 23:06 via artnews.com
  The Menil Collection in Houston has announced that Dr. Rebecca Rabinow will be taking over as the institution’s director, effective in July. Rabinow is currently the Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art at the Met, where she was worked since … Read More
  
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• Dr. Rebecca Rabinow Named Director at Menil Collection

  19-05-2016 23:06 via artnews.com
  The Menil Collection in Houston has announced that Dr. Rebecca Rabinow will be taking over as the institution’s director, effective in July. Rabinow is currently the Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art at the Met, where she was worked since … Read More
  
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• Non-profits and unconventional displays shine at Art16

  19-05-2016 23:00
  
  Art16, London’s springtime Modern and contemporary fair, has undergone substantial changes over the past two years, including a move to the smaller Olympia National hall and an abrupt change in directorship. Nathan Clements-Gillespie, the former director of external affairs for Macro, Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art, takes the reins following Kate Bryan’s departure last year after just one edition.A more streamlined version launched Thursday night, 19 May, with 100 galleries
  
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• Changing art market puts pressure on traditional antiques dealers

  19-05-2016 23:00
  
  Mallett, founded in 1865 and one of the last antiques “department stores” amid the fashion retailers in the West End of London, is preparing to move from its palatial Mayfair showroom to more modest premises as part of a shift in strategy after a troubled few years. The (unconfirmed) rumour that the contemporary mega-dealer Thaddeus Ropac has his eye on the London building seems to encapsulate how the fortunes currently favour the new.
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for EXPO Chicago 2016

  19-05-2016 22:55 via artnews.com
  Expo Chicago has released the exhibitor list for its fifth edition, which will take place September 22-25 at Chicago’s Navy Pier’s Festival Hall at 600 East Grand Avenue.This year, 145 galleries from 23 countries and 52 cities around the world … Read More
  
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• Philipp Kaiser Will Curate First Show at Marciano Foundation’s L.A. Museum, Will Open in Early 2017 [Updated]

  19-05-2016 21:40 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, curator Philipp Kaiser and a source close to the Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation said that the organization would open its hotly anticipated private museum in Los Angeles in mid-November. Kaiser, a former senior curator at the Museum … Read More
  
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• Marciano Art Foundation’s Private Museum in Los Angeles to Open in November

  19-05-2016 21:40 via artnews.com
  Collectors and Guess fashion label cofounders Maurice and Paul Marciano plan to open the Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles in mid-November, according to curator Philipp Kaiser. Kaiser, a former senior curator at MOCA and curator of the … Read More
  
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• Britain’s suffragettes don’t need another statue | Letters

  19-05-2016 20:05
  
  I read with interest Jonathan Jones’ article on commemorative statues (So many causes, so many heroes – why defame them with a statue?, 11 May). Apropos the suggestion that a statue of “a suffragette” should be placed in Parliament Square, London, I wonder if many readers know that there is already a memorial to the foot-soldiers of the women’s suffrage campaign just a few hundred metres from the square? Not Mrs Pankhurst’s statue in Victoria Tower Gardens, bu
  
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• Romania calls on citizens to help buy Brâncuși sculpture

  19-05-2016 19:15
  
  Romanians can collectively own work by Constantin Brâncuși by donating to multimillion-euro fundraising campaignRomanians are being asked to pitch in to help their government buy a work by the country’s greatest artist, Constantin Brâncuși. Related: Sculpture at heart of Romanian identity waits to hear her fateContinue reading...
  
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• Jeff Koons: Now review – Damien Hirst's joyless paean to Donald Trump of art

  19-05-2016 18:54
  
  From sexed-up Hoovers to kitsch kids’ toys, Hirst’s celebration of his biggest artistic influence is empty of emotion, revealing the shallowness of his own art
  Jeff Koons is hunched up naked like an animal, making love to the porn star Ilona Staller, his then wife, in a 1991 picture from his Made in Heaven series. It is an image of male conquest a Wall Street broker from a Martin Scorsese film would buy . As a self-portrait, it tells you everything you need to know about Koons and qu
  
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• Kienholz’s Five Car Stud goes back on view in Milan

  19-05-2016 18:37
  
  For nearly forty years, Ed Kienholz’s Five Car Stud (1969-72), a dark installation depicting a brutal racist attack, lay hidden away in storage in Japan. It is now on public view in Milan at the Fondazione Prada, which acquired the work in 2012, soon after it was restored by the artist’s widow and collaborator Nancy Reddin Kienholz.
  The work, first shown at Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972, was restored in 2011 and displayed in the US for the first time at the Los Angeles County Museum
  
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• Nazis, Con Men, Forgers, and Thieves: Art Crime in Postwar Cinema

  19-05-2016 17:49 via artnews.com
  On August 21, 1961, Francisco Goya’s Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (1812–14) was stolen from the National Gallery in London. The British government had purchased the painting 19 days earlier for £140,000, matching the bid of New York collector … Read More
  
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• Greenpeace protest shuts down British Museum for four hours

  19-05-2016 17:48
  
  The British Museum in London was forced to temporarily close earlier today (19 May) when Greenpeace activists protested at BP’s sponsorship of the exhibition Sunken Cities, Egypt’s Lost Worlds (until 27 November).
  The demonstrators climbed the museum’s front columns, unfurling 27-foot long banners emblazoned with the words Sinking Cities. The museum was subsequently closed from 10am to 2pm to ensure visitors’ safety, a spokeswoman says. A spokesman for the Metropolitan P
  
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• De Tu Boca

  19-05-2016 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nestled in a hammock
  words swayed
  ears obeyed
  she whispered:
   
  “From your mouth
  I want a kiss.
  From your shirt,
  a button.
  From your hands
  I want a ring,
  and from your chest,
  a heart.
   
  You came into the garden
  picked a clementine.
  From among the branches found
  and pressed it to your lips.
   
  Do not tell me
  you did not sip the honey
  for you are not
  a bumblebee.
   
  The night you kissed me
  you had that sweetness
  in your little mouth.
   
  That night you kissed me
  honeyed s
  
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• Public Art Fund Names Daniel S. Palmer Associate Curator

  19-05-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  The Public Art Fund has announced the appointment of Daniel S. Palmer as associate curator, effective May 31.Palmer currently serves as the Leon Levy assistant curator at the Jewish Museum in New York, where he has organized shows including “Unorthodox,” … Read More
  
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• Pyotr Pavlensky Convicted of Vandalism in Moscow for Pro-Ukraine Protest

  19-05-2016 15:33 via artnews.com
  The Associated Press reports that dissident Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky was convicted today in Moscow of vandalism during a pro-Ukraine protest. Though he was sentenced to 16 months in prison, he will not spend any time in jail because … Read More
  
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• Madam Butterfly, ENO, Coliseum, opera review: 'A visual feast'

  19-05-2016 15:22
  
  Anthony Minghella's sumptuous Madam Butterfly, revived by Sarah Tipple, has its sixth revival
  
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• Morning Links: Brooklyn Museum Buyouts Edition

  19-05-2016 14:49 via artnews.com
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• Artangel piece dishes the dirt in Parliament

  19-05-2016 14:07
  
  The UK’s Houses of Parliament are getting down and dirty—but this time it’s in the name of art. A 50-metre-long translucent latex cast of a wall inside Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the Houses of Parliament, which contains almost a century’s worth of British dust and grime, will hang from the hall ceiling (29 June-1 September). The project is part of artist, architect and conservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos’ ongoing series The Ethics of Dust, which has s
  
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• Ai Weiwei says EU's refugee deal with Turkey is immoral

  19-05-2016 14:00
  
  Unveiling work documenting his time on Lesbos, Chinese artist describes getting caught up in ‘shameful humanitarian crisis’The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei described the EU’s refugee deal with Turkey as shameful and immoral as he unveiled the artistic results of his stay on the Greek island of Lesbos.Speaking in Athens, where the works are going on public display for the first time from Friday, Ai said that although he had seen and experienced extreme and violent conditions in Chin
  
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• The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood joins a long line of musicians turned artists

  19-05-2016 12:44
  
  Should musicians stick to their music, or should we allow them to spread their wings to other mediums – even if they're not that good
  
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• Ai Weiwei unveils new works highlighting plight of refugees

  19-05-2016 12:43
  
  Three flags fly high above the Cycladic Museum of Art in Athens. One is the flag of Greece; another is of the European Union. The third depicts the outline of the body of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy of Kurdish ethnic background who drowned in the Aegean Sea in September.
  The three flags, created out of gold and silver satin to look like the emergency thermal blankets given to refugees, are all works by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, whose first exhibition in Greece opened at the C
  
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• Berlin’s lost Renaissance sculptures rediscovered in the Pushkin Museum

  19-05-2016 12:25
  
  Art historians have discovered 59 Italian Renaissance sculptures missing from Berlin’s collections since the Second World War in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, according to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. They include works by Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, Andrea del Verrocchio, Francesco Laurana and Mino da Fiesole that were housed in the city’s Bode Museum—then known as the Kaiser Friedrich Museum—before the war.The sculptures were
  
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• Everyday life in Cornwall captured in the 19th century – in pictures

  19-05-2016 08:00
  
  A portfolio of more than 1,500 images of Cornwall are to be sold at Penzance Auction House with an estimate of £25,000. This rare collection of photographs depict the ordinary lives of Cornish men and women from the 19th and early 20th century Continue reading...
  
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• Kenneth Clark's Civilisation reviewed - archive, 19 May 1969

  19-05-2016 06:30
  
  19 May 1969: Visually this has been a thoroughly exciting series. All manner of art objects, paintings, carvings, manuscripts, buildings, have been brought before us“Civilisation,” at least Sir Kenneth Clark’s baker’s dozen of it, came to an end last night on BBC-2. For 13 weeks Sir Kenneth has been delivering a weekly Sunday night (with a Friday repeat) lecture on art and architecture, literature and history – all those various outputs of man which are vaguely lump
  
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• Grayson Perry creates giant ceramic penis inspired by London bankers

  19-05-2016 01:06
  
  'There's no disputing what it is. It's a big cock.'
  
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• Grayson Perry creates giant ceramic penis inspired by City of London bankers

  19-05-2016 01:06
  
  'There's no disputing what it is. It's a big cock.'
  
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