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• Mauro Restiffe at Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo

  25-05-2016 23:20 via artnews.com
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• Political message on Hong Kong’s tallest tower pulled from exhibition

  25-05-2016 23:00
  
  Officials in Hong Kong removed a work of art from public display on the side of the city's tallest building, the International Commerce Centre, after the artists revealed it was loaded with a political message about China-Hong Kong relations.The work, Our 60-second friendship begins now (2016) by Sampson Wong and Jason Lam, was part of the exhibition Human Vibrations, which was organised by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC). The light display included a countdown to 1 July 2047, wh
  
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• ‘Pivotal’ Constable sketch to lead Christie’s 250th anniversary sale

  25-05-2016 23:00
  
  The last six-footer sketch by John Constable in private hands will be the “pivotal painting” in Christie’s 250th anniversary Defining British Art sale on 30 June, says Christie’s global president Jussi Pylkkänen.
  View on the River Stour near Dedham, full-scale sketch (around 1821-22) is estimated in the region of £12m-£16m and was the study for the fourth in his series of six “finished” canvases of the Stour valley exhibited at the Royal
  
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• Native American leaders and US officials protest against Paris auction of artefacts

  25-05-2016 23:00
  
  Native American leaders, US politicians and NGOs held an emergency meeting at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C, on 24 May to protest the planned auction of hundreds of sacred objects and works of art in Paris next week. Artefacts from the Americas, Africa and Asia are on the block at Estimations Ventes aux Enchères, or EVE auction house, including Hopi masks that are considered physical embodiments of the tribe’s ancestors. One is estimated to sell for between €40,000 and &e
  
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• Copper and dust: on Mesopotamian sculptures and pastels by Lucas Samaras at the Morgan Library

  25-05-2016 23:00
  
  An exhibition of Mesopotamian copper sculpture and another of Lucas Samaras’s pastels at the Morgan Library and Museum gives evidence of the museum's large ambitions.
  The exhibition Founding Figures, which includes seven sculptures and two cylinder seals from ancient Mesopotamia, has a title that suggests some assumptions about the influence—or at least the age—of these objects.The title also conjures up associations with the Founding Fathers, the Americans who wrote the US Co
  
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• Bronx Museum to undergo facelift

  25-05-2016 23:00
  The Bronx Museum of the Arts will renovate its aging facilities.
  The renovation, which will not include an expansion and is expected to be done by 2020, will be overseen by Monica Ponce de Leon, dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University and co-curator of the United States Pavilion for the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture, which opens this week.
  "The project will enable us to better serve our growing audience and better integrate our facility into its home on the Grand Conco
  
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• Badlands Unlimited launches series of e-books by artists

  25-05-2016 23:00
  Badlands Unlimited, the artist Paul Chan's publishing initiative, will launch a new series of e-books by artists.
  The series will include books by artists like Rachel Rose, whose contribution manipulates pages from children's books to create her own retelling of a Victorian tale, titled The Sandy Cat. Among other artists working on projects are Georgia Sagri, who was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial.Expect things to get idiosyncratic: an e-book by the artist Howie Chen, who used to work at
  
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• High Above Mexico City, a ‘One-Wall Gallery Without Doors’ Gets to Work

  25-05-2016 22:35 via artnews.com
  For the past few months, a rather mysterious photograph has adorned a billboard atop a building in Mexico City’s Condesa neighborhood. It shows, in front of a lush, green forest, an oddly spotlit cactus, which just might be floating, alongside … Read More
  
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• Bronx Museum of the Arts Plans Architectural Redesign

  25-05-2016 22:34 via artnews.com
  The Bronx Museum of the Arts has announced plans for an architectural upgrade that will result in more space for public programs and exhibitions. The project, which is a public-private partnership between the museum and the city of New York, … Read More
  
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• The ’80s Were Wonderful And The ’90s Ruined Everything, Says Dale Peck

  25-05-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If the angst reached its zenith in the 1970s (Watergate, the fall of Saigon, gas lines, the hostage crisis), its nadir came in the 80s. Enervated by the tremors of punk and disillusioned by the failures of the Congressional class of ’74 and the impotence of the Carter presidency, America sighed a collective ‘What the fuck’ and decided to ring out the end of empire/end of days with the indulgence of third-century Romans.”
  
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• Anything Can Break Bad: An FBI Special Agent Has Learned the Difference Between the Art World and the Mafia

  25-05-2016 21:32 via artnews.com
  With a gun in her holster and her mind in art history, FBI Special Agent Meridith Savona has been investigating art crimes for the FBI’s New York office major-crimes unit since 2010. She has seen her fair share of fraudsters … Read More
  
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• Why The Search To Recover Nazi-Looted Art Is Still Active

  25-05-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s a question of justice. And it’s becoming increasingly important as we get further and further away from World War II, because the original owners are dying, and even knowledge about collections is disappearing with each subsequent generation.”
  
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• Tracey Emin Explains – Seriously – Why She Married A Stone

  25-05-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s beautiful, it’s paleolithic, it’s monumental, it’s dignified, it will never, ever let me down. It’s not going anywhere: it’s a metaphor for what I prefer to live with. I prefer to be single, doing everything I want to do and how I want to do it. … If I feel really low – anything from ‘I shouldn’t have said that’ to ‘I don’t feel very well’, to ‘I feel a bit lonely’ – I think about t
  
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• SFMoMA’s Trophy Art – So Where’s The History?

  25-05-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why are so many works by single artists — male artists who enjoy art-superstar reputations — hung as if animating visual encyclopedia entries, occupying one gallery upon the next upon the next? And whose idea was it to do it this way? For the influential donors of the new SFMOMA, political art appears never to have been invented.”
  
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• The Redemption Of David Hume

  25-05-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 2009, he won first place in a large international poll of professors and graduate students who were asked to name the dead thinker with whom they most identified. … This is quite a reversal of fortune for Hume, who failed in both of his attempts to get an academic job. In his own day, and into the nineteenth century, his philosophical writings were generally seen as perverse and destructive.”
  
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• Bee Sculptures and Psychedelic Landscapes: A Day at Jack Shainman’s Upstate Venture, The School

  25-05-2016 19:47 via artnews.com
  “I feel so blessed to be able to do this each year,” said gallerist Jack Shainman this past Sunday, during a tour of The School, his 30,000 square-foot exhibition space inside a former high school in Kinderhook, New York. The scattering … Read More
  
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• Are Live Streams Of The Arts Cannibalizing The Live Theatre Audience?

  25-05-2016 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ETO’s 2014 research with Guildhall School of Music and Drama found that 81% of cinema opera attenders were over 60, had an age profile “slightly older” than that typically found at live opera, and reported no increased motivation to attend live opera afterwards.
  
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• Guy Le Querrec's best photograph: flying handbags at a monastery in China

  25-05-2016 19:01
  
  ‘I have always been interested in gestures – I was once described as someone who made arms dance’This photo is an enigma. Even I can’t say for sure what’s happening. I didn’t know what I had taken at the time. It was only afterwards, when I developed the film, that I saw the handbag.It was April 1984 and I was on assignment in China, which was just opening up to foreigners. I had no particular commission, though: I could shoot whatever I wanted. On this day, I
  
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• Guy Le Querrec's best photograph: a flying handbag at a monastery in China

  25-05-2016 19:01
  
  ‘The sign means happiness. You close your eyes, walk towards it, and try to touch the centre. I can’t explain the handbag’This photo is an enigma. Even I can’t say for sure what’s happening. I didn’t know what I had taken at the time. It was only afterwards, when I developed the film, that I saw the handbag.It was April 1984 and I was on assignment in China, which was just opening up to foreigners. I had no particular commission, though: I could shoot whatever
  
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• Working Actors Recall Their Days As Waiters

  25-05-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “People would order these decadent desserts all the time and not finish. We were a bunch of poor actors, and we’d bring them back to the kitchen and eat them. I especially remember a banana cake soufflé. I probably ate a dozen or so famous people’s desserts in the half-year I worked there – I’m not ashamed to say.”
  
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• Afraid Of Being Bored? Then You Might Be Less Creative

  25-05-2016 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While boredom may threaten your ability to work quickly and efficiently, it may be essential to working well. As writer and philosopher Robert Pirsig claimed, “Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.” Even if that isn’t always the case for you, chances are you need to be a little bored in order to generate your most inventive ideas and produce your highest-quality work.”
  
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• ‘We Design The Stuff You Feel, Not The Stuff You See’

  25-05-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Environmental design firm Atelier Ten has developed ingenious schemes like a thermal air storage system inspired by ancient Roman ventilation networks that sent naturally cool air from caves into villas.
  
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• The Rise Of Immersive Theatre

  25-05-2016 17:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Immersive entertainment is, plainly, weird. It’s far more interactive than watching a film or traditional play, and can often be unsettling. Actors can touch you, they know stuff about you, and you may find yourself exploring unknown settings on foot or alone.”
  
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• Philosophy Gets Its Version Of Alan Sokal’s Great Hoax

  25-05-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Somewhere in the latest issue of Badiou Studies, a multilingual, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the thinking of the philosopher Alain Badiou, lives an article entitled, ‘Ontology, Neutrality and the Strive for (non-) Being-Queer.'”
  
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• How William Faulkner Can Help Us Understand Trump Nation

  25-05-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Abner, he was every stereotype of a poor white that has ever permeated the American story. … Faulkner doesn’t want us to laugh at Abner. He wants us to ask, what would it be like to be him? To feel as though destruction was your only path to dignity.”
  
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• Why Did Sound Design Lose Its Tony Category?

  25-05-2016 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There was a lot of talk about voters not knowing how to properly measure the art form—to which the designers said, “Let us judge it” rather than eliminate it altogether. How can the art form be measured properly?
  
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• David King obituary

  25-05-2016 16:33
  
  Artist, designer and photographer who built up a massive archive of Soviet-era artefactsDavid King, who has died aged 73, was a graphic designer, writer, artist, photographer and, above all, a collector. On Level 4 at Tate Modern is a room hung with 40 framed magazine covers by John Heartfield, the German political artist and pioneer of photomontage; in the centre, open in a display case, are two copies of King’s last book, John Heartfield: Laughter is a Devastating Weapon (2015). Over sev
  
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• Theatre Is Undergoing A Playwright Revolution (It’s Very Exciting)

  25-05-2016 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Feingold: “Yes, our old three-dimensional art form has stepped into an internet world where everything is accessible in one quick click. Today’s playwrights can shift focus, tone, or even subject matter in an eye-blink. Amazingly, they can do it without losing hold of their core meaning.”
  
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• Office Space: Artists Take Over 19th Floor of Times Square Building for Three-Week Residency

  25-05-2016 16:15 via artnews.com
  Unlike most people living in New York, I enjoy the insanity of Times Square. I’ll take any chance I can get to go up there. Dipset reunion concert at B.B. King’s Blues Club & Grill? Sure. Mad Max in 3D … Read More
  
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• Stanford Live Gets A New Director

  25-05-2016 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stanford Live is one of the most well-respected university-based arts presenters in the United States, and the Bing Concert Hall, which opened in January 2013 and cost more than $110 million to build, is Silicon Valley’s most prominent classical music venue.
  
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• ‘Thelma And Louise’ Feels Like It Could Be Made Today – And This Is Not A Good Thing

  25-05-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘No one would believe us’ runs like a refrain through the film’s taut dialogues … The fundamental fact of Thelma & Louise – the one that ultimately drives its plot, and the one that makes it feel so disappointingly fresh today – is the women’s recognition that they can’t trust the law, because the law doesn’t trust them.”
  
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• Future Of The Arts? Festivals Not Buildings

  25-05-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Given the economic costs and risks, why do museums, stadiums and other “concrete culture” receive such a privileged place in urban development? After spending the past 10 years conducting research on the topic, I’ve found that this privilege should end; as an alternative, cities should champion music festivals as a cheaper, adaptable way to bolster urban communities.”
  
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• The Problem With Peak TV (For Some Of Us)

  25-05-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The shift from network TV’s relatively flat, manageable terrain to our current Wild West is exciting for some viewers (fuck commercials!) and bewildering for others – wait, so I’m supposed to make my own TV-watching schedule now? … That’s what scares me the most about the state of TV – it’s no longer a useful marker of time.”
  
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• Qatari Royal Family And Gagosian Client Settle Lawsuit Over That Picasso Bust Of Marie-Thérèse

  25-05-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A settlement was reached in an international legal drama over Picasso’s plaster Bust of a Woman pitting two of the world’s biggest art buyers against each other, New York billionaire Leon Black versus a member of Qatar’s royal family. But who now owns the 1931 sculpture, depicting the artist’s then-mistress and muse, Marie-Therese Walter, remains a secret.”
  
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• Acid-Damaged Renaissance Painting Restored After 10 Years Of Work

  25-05-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Adoration of the Shepherds by 16th-century Italian artist Sebastiano del Piombo was removed from a wooden panel with acid in the 1700s and then painted over. Conservators at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum worked to repair the damage.”
  
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• Morning Links: Cake Theft Edition

  25-05-2016 14:57 via artnews.com
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• Revived New York City Opera Gets Busy With Its First Full Season

  25-05-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The re-founded company’s plans for 2016-17 look more like what its team had been promising than did this year’s hastily assembled season. There will be only one warhorse, paired with a less-familiar title; the return of a star director (Harold Prince) to a landmark production from the ’80s; the long-delayed New York premiere of a well-known 21st-century opera; and two chamber works, one a Spanish Baroque rarity and the other a “CNN opera”. The new City Opera has eve
  
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• Ohio Orchestra To Fold After 75 Years

  25-05-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Middletown Symphony Orchestra’s 75th anniversary next year will also mark its grand finale. Steve Ifcic, the symphony’s board chairman, said the board ‘has unanimously made the decision to close the curtain on the orchestra and end our musical programs in May of 2017 at the end of the 2016/2017 concert season.'”
  
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• Trying To Understand The Angry Identity Politics At Oberlin (And Lots Of Other Colleges)

  25-05-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A school like Oberlin, which prides itself on being the first to have regularly admitted women and black students, explicitly values diversity. But it’s also supposed to lift students out of their circumstances, diminishing difference. … They move their lives to rural Ohio and perform their identities, whatever that might mean. They bear out the school’s vision. In exchange, they’re groomed for old-school entry into the liberal upper middle class. An irony surroun
  
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• Yes, Students, The English Lit Canon Is Sexist, Racist, Colonialist, Heteronormative, Etc. – You Have To Read It Anyway

  25-05-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The canon is what it is, and anyone who wishes to understand how it continues to flow forward needs to learn to swim around in it. There is a clear line to Terrance Hayes (and Frank and Claire Underwood, and Lyon Dynasty) from Shakespeare. There is a direct path to Adrienne Rich (and Katniss Everdeen, and Lyra Belacqua) from Milton. (Rich basically says as much in Diving into the Wreck.) These guys are the heavies, the chord progressions upon which the rest of us continue to improvise, an
  
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• The 19-Year-Old Choreographer So Talented That The Royal Ballet Created A Position For Her

  25-05-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At 11 [Charlotte Edmonds] joined the Royal Ballet School and started choreographing straight away. She is dyslexic and found academic work challenging but she thinks her condition may have helped her choreography. ‘I have to strategise ways to remember things, a lot of visualisation, and that comes in really handy in the studio,’ she says.”
  
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• Menil Collection In Houston Selects Met Curator As Its Next Director

  25-05-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Houston native Rebecca Rabinow, currently curator-in-charge of the [Met Museum’s] new Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, takes up her new position in July.
  
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• New catalogue raisonné sheds light on Francis Bacon’s art and controversial life

  25-05-2016 13:03
  The forthcoming Francis Bacon catalogue raisonné will offer an unprecedented view into his art—and his controversial private life. Bacon’s surviving oeuvre, totalling 584 paintings, is catalogued in 1,538 pages. Less than a third of the pictures are in museums, with most hidden away in anonymous private collections. Thanks to colour reproductions, some available for the first time, it is now possible to clearly see the development of Bacon’s art.
   
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• Palestinian Museum's first satellite show opens in Beirut

  25-05-2016 12:18
  
  The Palestinian Museum’s first satellite show is opening today (25 May) at Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture, a new art space in Beirut.
   
  At the Seams: a Political History of Palestinian Embroidery (until 30 July) reveals the activist side of fashion in Palestine. The exhibition presents more than 50 garments from the extensive Widad Kawar and Malak al-Husseini Abdulrahim collections of Arab dress. The dresses are accompanied by a number of photographs, posters and paintings, some o
  
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• Oedipe: The masterpiece opera is finally getting the staging it deserves at the Royal Opera House

  25-05-2016 12:13
  
  80 years after its world premiere, Enescu's opera is being staged at the Royal Opera House for the first time
  
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• The land that time forgot: 1980s China

  25-05-2016 10:44
  
  Fast-changing Chongqing in southwest China gets a blast to the past in Hello, Hualongqiao, a recent exhibition of 1980s photography at the Chongqing Art Museum—the second in a series of three shows exploring the inland municipality’s heritage. The first section presents the industrial history of Chongqing, with around 400 photos of workers, formerly the majority of the city’s residents, which the museum collected from local factories including Chongqing Ste
  
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• Photographs don't lie: why does Austria flirt with fascism?

  25-05-2016 10:00
  
  Gustav Metzger used a photo of Jewish men scrubbing Viennese streets under the gaze of sneering Nazis to remind the world about antisemitism. The narrow defeat of Norbert Hofer proves his message is as relevant as ever Related: The far right’s narrow defeat in Austria should be a wake-up call for Europe | Owen Jones The images come swimming back. The old black and white photographs are suddenly new again. It is March 1938 and Jews are being forced to scrub the streets of Vienna. Uniformed
  
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• Molly Crabapple: the sketcher blurring activism and art

  25-05-2016 10:00
  
  Armed with her paintbrush, the illustrator and journalist is redefining reportage with her portraits of Guantánamo Bay, Trump and Syrian refugeesMolly Crabapple is sitting in an appropriately noirish and velvety Soho club, talking animatedly about the “global slide to authoritarianism”. “I’m American: tangerine Hitler is our Republican presidential frontrunner, but Russia has Putin, and Europe has the rise of fascist parties. It’s a very, very dark time.&rdqu
  
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