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• Louvre Shuts And Evacuates Art As Seine Floods

  02-06-2016 23:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Louvre will remain closed on Friday to allow staff to evacuate tens of thousands of “reserve” paintings and sculptures in its underground store rooms. Fears had been growing all day of serious flooding in Paris as the European football championship approaches – despite official assurances that all should be well.”
  
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• “Hamilton” Original Cast Start Planning Their Exits

  02-06-2016 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On July 9, less than a month after the Tony Awards, where Hamilton has a record 16 nominations, the contracts of many members of the current company — including Miranda, who also wrote the show’s book and music — will expire, sources close to the production tell The Hollywood Reporter.”
  
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• The ‘consistently inconsistent’ Francis Picabia

  02-06-2016 23:00
  Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction. This phrase of Francis Picabias (1879-1953) offers a synopsis of his kaleidoscopic personality, says the curator Cathrine Hug of Kunsthaus Zurich, who has co-organised a survey of his work that opens this month. Primarily known as a Dadaist, Picabia also experimented with Impressionism, Cubism and Surrealism. His work is consistently inconsistent, as the co-curator Anne Umland of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) writes in her catalogue ess
  
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• ‘Imagine how easy Keith Haring is to fake’

  02-06-2016 23:00
  
  Last October Richard Polsky, the San Francisco art dealer who wrote I Bought Andy Warhol (2003), started an authentication service for the artist’s works, driven by the dissolution of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ authentication committee four years earlier. Now, Polsky has announced that he is taking on authentication of works by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.The Art Newspaper: There are some collecting fields, such as sports memorabilia, where fakes are s
  
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• From illicit art to fresh blood: four of the biggest challenges facing museums today

  02-06-2016 23:00
  
  Rioting in Baltimore was top of mind at last year’s annual American Alliance of Museums (AAM) meeting in Atlanta, where discussions centred on the role museums ought to play in social justice. “It drove a lot of conversation in the meeting, as opposed to being just out there for marketing purposes,” says Laura Lott, the president of AAM.Convinced the discussions had merely scratched the surface, AAM staff organised the 2016 annual conference in Washington, DC last week (26-29
  
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• Christie’s to sell Brian Sewell’s ‘much loved’ art

  02-06-2016 23:00
  
  Christie’s is selling the collection of the late art critic Brian Sewell, who was himself a picture expert at the auction house between 1958 and 1967. The 200-lot sale, rich with Old Master paintings and drawings and Modern British art, is expected to sell for around £2m.
  With prices ranging from £1,000 to £600,000, collectors of all means will have a chance to acquire pictures—some of which hung in Sewell’s Wimbledon home. The 17th-century painting, Blowing
  
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• Chongqing today, Wuhan tomorrow: Long Museum continues its long march inland

  02-06-2016 23:00
  
  The Chinese art collectors Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei last week unveiled the third location of their Long Museum, in the inland megacity of Chongqing—and there are more to come. At the opening on 26 May, Wang announced further plans for a fourth branch due to open in 2018 in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province.Long Museum Chongqing is the first outpost beyond the founders’ hometown of Shanghai. It opened with the show 100 Years of Chinese Art (1911-2011), organised by the curator Lv P
  
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• Accessorise your home with these artful goods

  02-06-2016 23:00
  
  Business was briskand especially with your correspondentat the Peckham, south London, launch of Art Licks Trading. Ten young artists have made functional household items to generate funds for the annual Art Licks Weekend festival in London, which takes place every October. I am happy to report that Casa Buck is now well equipped with an utterly irresistible chunky little JCB-yellow bottle opener from James Capper; an especially appropriate champagne socialist sickle nflute tea towel created by P
  
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• Alex Ross: What The Choice Of Nezet-Seguin Means For The Met

  02-06-2016 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What is needed at the Met — as at many other big organizations, notably the New York Philharmonic—is not some magical charismatic personality who will pacify all parties but a fundamental rethinking of the institution.”
  
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• Battle Over A Building And An Important Piece Of Mexico’s Heritage

  02-06-2016 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is considered one of the most important pieces of land art in Mexico, a tranquil oasis in a chaotic city. But the recent construction of a white eight-story building nearby has prompted a furious protest that pits the university’s needs against Mexico’s cultural heritage.”
  
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• Why Keeping Secrets Is So Difficult (And How To Make It A Little Easier)

  02-06-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You have to pay a lot of attention both to what other people already know as well as to whether they’re allowed to know the secret information, too. This mental effort can be a problem in casual conversation, where it’s easy to let a piece of information slip unintentionally. Our minds have a limited capacity to process information.”
  
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• Tammy Rae Carland at JSG South, San Francisco

  02-06-2016 21:51 via artnews.com
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• Three’s Company: ‘Ally’ at Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

  02-06-2016 21:43 via artnews.com
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• Marcel Proust’s memories fetch €1.24m at auction

  02-06-2016 21:03
  
  The personal archives of the French writer Marcel Proust sold at auction at Sotheby’s in Paris on 31 May for a total of €1.24m with premium (against an estimate of €520,000 to €740,000), demonstrating the appeal of nostalgia—but this would probably not be a surprise to the author of the seven-volume series In Search of Lost Time (1913-27). The 120 objects, left to Proust’s brother Robert after he died in 1922, were put up for sale by his great-grandniece, Patric
  
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• Marcel Proust’s memories fetch €1.24 at auction

  02-06-2016 21:03
  
  The personal archives of the French writer Marcel Proust sold at auction at Sotheby’s in Paris on 31 May for a total of €1.24m with premium (against an estimate of €520,000 to €740,000), demonstrating the appeal of nostalgia—but this would probably not be a surprise to the author of the seven-volume series In Search of Lost Time (1913-27). The 120 objects, left to Proust’s brother Robert after he died in 1922, were put up for sale by his great-grandniece, Patric
  
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• Louvre to Close Its Doors for a Day, Following Severe Flooding

  02-06-2016 20:45 via artnews.com
  The Louvre in Paris announced earlier today that it will close its doors to the public on Friday in light of a spate of flooding, brought on by a torrential downpour that hit the city in recent days. The decision represents a … Read More
  
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• ‘I Really Can’t Hear You’: MoMA Party In The Garden Not Exactly Ideal Setting For Lengthy Conversation

  02-06-2016 20:07 via artnews.com
  “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you,” Bill Cunningham said with a smile as he shuffled away from me during MoMA’s annual Party in the Garden last night, snapping photos at leisure. Held in the museum’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, … Read More
  
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• Louvre and Orsay shut down due to flood threat

  02-06-2016 19:56
  
  The Louvre Museum in Paris stopped admitting visitors this afternoon, 2 June and will be closed tomorrow, 3 June, due to the threat of flooding from the Seine River, which it borders. The Seine’s level is currently over 5m, and the city centre has been placed on an orange-level flood alert after days of rain.
  An internal email by the Louvre’s director Jean-Luc Martinez to the museum’s staff, obtained by Reuters, said: “The museum will remain closed to the public tomorrow
  
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• Awards Banquet: If Not Now Then Summer

  02-06-2016 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Does the world need another online review of a record you will either like or dislike if or when you hear it, regardless of what anyone else thinks? At a recent event in London, Everyone’s A Critic, it was suggested unpaid bloggers/writers can lack the intellectual or historical background to know what they are writing about, and that “real” criticism isn’t just whether the reviewer likes or dislikes the subject matter; if the critic is not paid, content is reduced to the
  
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• Consumer Reports: Kayla Guthrie

  02-06-2016 18:40 via artnews.com
  Kayla Guthrie is an artist working in writing, song, and visual mediums. She recently released an EP, Blue (Mixed Media Recordings), and a book, Sunsets Working (Bodega), and has performed at various locations, including Greene Naftali and Off Vendome in … Read More
  
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• Here Is The Premiere Of Yannick Val Gesto’s Video For Belgian Musician Roman Hiele

  02-06-2016 17:16 via artnews.com
  The Belgian artist (and ARTnews “Consumer Reports” alum) Yannick Val Gesto made a music video for the Belgian musician Roman Hiele, operating here under the moniker Mode D’Hiele.“So me and Roman have been friends for quite a while, collaborating here … Read More
  
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• Into the Void: On Spring Shows of Empty, Charged Spaces in New York, and Raw, Tough-and-Tumble Sculpture

  02-06-2016 16:45 via artnews.com
  On shows at the Whitney Museum, Essex Street, Artist’s Institute, Gladstone, Gagosian, Artists Space, Metro Pictures, Real Fine Arts, Greene Naftali, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Read More
  
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• Into the Void: On Spring Shows of Empty, Charged Spaces , and Raw, Rough-and-Tumble Sculpture in New York

  02-06-2016 16:45 via artnews.com
  On shows at the Whitney Museum, Essex Street, Artist’s Institute, Gladstone, Gagosian, Artists Space, Metro Pictures, Real Fine Arts, Greene Naftali, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Read More
  
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• Found: a treasure trove of contemporary art at the Foundling Museum

  02-06-2016 16:41
  
  Thanks to the artist-curator Cornelia Parker’s fellowship at the Foundling Museum, the small, social history museum in central London has more contemporary art on display than institutions ten times its size. Parker has chosen works by more than 60 living artists for her exhibition Found (until 4 September) and installed them among the historic paintings and artefacts that tell the remarkable story of an orphanage and children’s hospital established in the early 18th century with th
  
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• Cornelia Parker puts the lost and found into Foundling Museum

  02-06-2016 16:41
  
  Thanks to the artist-curator Cornelia Parker’s fellowship at the Foundling Museum, the small, social history museum in central London has more contemporary art on display than institutions ten times its size. Parker has chosen works by more than 60 living artists for her exhibition Found (until 4 September) and installed them among the historic paintings and artefacts that tell the remarkable story of an orphanage and children’s hospital established in the early 18th century with th
  
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• This is Garth England: the milkman who drew Bristol from memory

  02-06-2016 16:11
  
  He roamed his city’s streets all his life, delivering papers, telegrams and milk – and recorded what he saw in naive, meticulous drawings decades later. Discovered by chance, the secret artist’s archive of postwar life has been saved for posterityOne day in 2013, Jo Plimmer visited a care home in Bristol as part of a local art project. There she met a former milkman called Garth England. “He pointed to three A4 folders on his bookshelf,” she recalls. “I got th
  
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• Morning Links: Dave Matthews Band Edition

  02-06-2016 14:35 via artnews.com
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• James Needham's bathroom painting proves art is doomed in the selfie age

  02-06-2016 14:26
  
  This portrait of the artist and his wife may be hugely popular on social media, but its intimacy and humanity – just as with a photographic selfie – is fakePainting can be popular in the digital age, provided it washes out all aesthetic ambition and reduces the 600 years of art history since the Renaissance to the level of a glorified selfie. That is the lesson of the internet popularity of Sydney artist James Needham’s double portrait of himself and his wife in their bathroom.
  
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• On the road: Tornabuoni’s Art Basel presentation to travel to museums in US and Italy

  02-06-2016 14:08
  
  “Museum quality” is how many galleries describe their art fair booths, but Tornabuoni might be turning a buzzword into reality at Art Basel this year. The Italian gallery’s solo stand on the US artist Salvatore Scarpitta, which will go on show at the Swiss fair later this month, is due to be exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, at the start of 2017. Plans are also underway to recreate the gallery’s booth at an Italian museum, possibly the Muse
  
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• Celebrating American national parks in art – in pictures

  02-06-2016 14:00
  
  Georgia O’Keefe camping with Ansel Adams, paintings of the Tetons and comparisons of Yellowstone from 1871 and now are some of the highlights at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming. A series of exhibitions celebrates a range of arts focused on the anniversary of the national parks, running now until 28 August Continue reading...
  
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• From Antony Gormley to Eva Rothschild, artists take a stance against Brexit – in pictures

  02-06-2016 12:47
  
  The sculptor Antony Gormley, children’s illustrator Axel Scheffler and photographer Rankin are among 14 internationally-renowned artists to unveil posters in support of keeping Britain in the EU. The works, commissioned by Britain Stronger In Europe, the official remain campaign, also include designs by Michael Craig-Martin, Tacita Dean, Bob & Roberta Smith, Dog & Rabbit, Eva Rothschild, Michael Tierney, Jon Burgerman and Wolfgang Tillmans, and a joint design by Jefferson Hack and
  
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• From Anthony Gormley to Eva Rothschild, artists take a stance against Brexit – in pictures

  02-06-2016 12:47
  
  The sculptor Anthony Gormley, children’s illustrator Axel Scheffler and photographer Rankin are among 14 internationally-renowned artists to unveil posters in support of keeping Britain in the EU. The works, commissioned by Britain Stronger In Europe, the official remain campaign, also include designs by Michael Craig-Martin, Tacita Dean, Bob & Roberta Smith, Dog & Rabbit, Eva Rothschild, Michael Tierney and Wolfgang Tilmans, and a joint design by Jefferson Hack and Ferdinando Verd
  
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• Indian artist heads up new biennial in northwest China

  02-06-2016 12:22
  
  An ambitious new biennial featuring works by Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor is due to launch in northwest China later this year at the Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan (Moca Yinchuan). The curator of the inaugural edition, entitled For an Image, Faster than Light (9 September-18 December), is the Indian artist Bose Krishnamachari who co-founded the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala in 2012.
   
  The inaugural biennial will include more than 80 international artists including Abigail Reynolds, L
  
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• Court of Appeal upholds ruling that Henry Moore’s ‘Old Flo’ belongs to east London

  02-06-2016 11:25
  
  The search is on for a secure place to install Henry Moore’s “Old Flo” in east London after the Court of Appeal upheld last year’s decision that the £20m bronze belongs to Tower Hamlets.“We need to find a location that’s safe where people can see it. It depends on getting the right insurance. We need to do it thoughtfully, rather than rapidly—because there’s a history of these things being spirited away in the dead of night and melted down,&
  
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• Travel, trade, the Titanic (and T-shirts) at the Brazilian Embassy

  02-06-2016 10:28
  
  Members of the public aren’t often able to access the Embassy of Brazil located in Cockspur Street in London. But for a limited time, the diplomats have opened the doors for a group exhibition featuring four Brazilian artists (What Separates Us, until 2 July) held in the Embassy’s Sala Brasil. This historic room, bedecked with wooden panels and seascapes, was once the ticket hall for the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, the Titanic ship operator. The participating artists—Ton
  
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• Drawing a line: Artists take a stance against Brexit

  02-06-2016 08:00
  
  The sculptor Anthony Gormley, children’s illustrator Axel Scheffler and photographer Rankin are among 14 internationally-renowned artists to unveil posters in support of keeping Britain in the EU. The works, commissioned by Britain Stronger In Europe, the official remain campaign, also include designs by Michael Craig-Martin, Tacita Dean, Bob & Roberta Smith, Dog & Rabbit, Eva Rothschild, Michael Tierney and Wolfgang Tilmans, and a joint design by Jefferson Hack and Ferdinando Verd
  
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• Adam Hinton's best photograph: an artist painting amid the Kiev uprising

  02-06-2016 08:00
  
  ‘The protesters would go over to him and chat – as if he was just painting a river’I studied Soviet politics at college, and the first thing I did when I finished was go to Ukraine. The Soviet Union had just collapsed and I wanted to document what was happening to the proletariat – especially the miners – in the Donbass region, now Ukraine’s rustbelt. I stayed with a mining family and followed their lives. It turned into a four-year project. Ukrainian politics
  
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• Untitled(this gives me hope for the middle class, a said. techies don’t play baseball.)

  02-06-2016 02:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  m asked a how her migraines are. a has psoriasis that could be arthritis.we walked on geary to presidio. the ocean was a couple of miles from us,it was getting dark and cold. there was no fog.do you have a headache, i saidi feel headachy, a saidtomorrow we are meeting with a’s friend julia. she’s a social worker who chooseswhen she wants to work and in what capacity. she works with abused teenagers. i’mcurious about how, what school of thought they use, social workers help the
  
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