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• Restructuring Of Three NY Museum Giants Reveal Funding Pressures

  20-06-2016 23:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The three museum’s plans, all announced within four weeks of each other, illustrate a growing problem in cultural fundraising today. While there seems to be ample money to finance expansions—a recent survey by The Art Newspaper found that US museums spent $5bn on building projects between 2007 and 2014—there is less money available to pay staff.”
  
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• Sotheby’s to launch Modern and contemporary African art sales in London in 2017

  20-06-2016 23:00
  
  In a sign that the market for African art is going from strength to strength, Sothebys announced on Monday, 20 June, that it is launching sales dedicated to art from the continent in London early next year.
  The auction house has appointed Hannah OLeary as its head of Modern and contemporary African art, a new department based in London. OLeary comes from Bonhams, where she held the same position as her new role since 2010. Her first auction as head of the department at Bonhams in March 2011 fet
  
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• Quai Branly celebrates ten years with homage to Jacques Chirac

  20-06-2016 23:00
  
  The Muse du Quai Branly, Pariss museum of non-Western arts and civilisations, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, the museum has organised an exhibition opening today on the former French president Jacques Chirac, who was the driving force behind this ambitious institution on the south bank of the Seine (Jacques Chirac and the Dialogue of Cultures,  until 9 October). Chirac, who has a personal interest in Japanese and Pre-Columbian art, was deeply c
  
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• Art clans gather to bid farewell to the greatest of dames, the Serpentine’s Julia Peyton-Jones

  20-06-2016 23:00
  
  Julia Peyton-Jones, the co-director of the Serpentine Galleries, has a reputation for making spectacular things happen. So nobody was surprised that, just before her farewell shindig in the Serpentines pavilion, yesterdays (20 June) monsoon-like deluge ceased and the evening was bathed in a balmy summer weather and later a rare, strawberry full moon.  It was very much a family affair, as Serpentine-loving artistsAnish Kapoor, Wolfgang Tillmans, Lynette Yiadom Boakye, Yinka Shonibare, Gusta
  
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• Abandon ship! Treasures from ancient shipwrecks come to Oxford

  20-06-2016 23:00
  Whether to transport live snails from a Roman governor's estate in Campania to his residence in Egypt, or to move carved marble columns and pulpits to one of the many churches built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reign AD527-AD565), in the ancient Mediterranean world, the sea was often the quickest route by which to move goods around. But disasters were part of the game, and not every ship reached its destination.
  A selection of 200 objects plucked from the waters around Sicily, which is
  
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• Canadians Being Wrongfully Dinged For Piracy

  20-06-2016 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the start of 2015, a new Canadian law came into effect called the notice-and-notice system. It requires that all internet service providers forward copyright infringement notices to customers suspected of downloading unauthorized content like movies and TV shows. The purpose of the notice system is to discourage piracy — not to get cash. But right away, some anti-piracy companies started sending letters to suspected pirates, asking them to pay a settlement fee — sometimes h
  
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• Sweet Dreams: Limoncello Dealers Build a Satellite Fair on the Internet

  20-06-2016 22:49 via artnews.com
  On Tuesday morning last week, the same day that Art Basel opened to invited guests, the third iteration of the Dream art fair, titled Dream Basel, launched—not in Switzerland, but at dreamfair.org. The webpage, with its whimsical font and picture-perfect background photo of Basel, embodies the ethos of … Read More
  
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• Research: One In Three Are Bullied In School – And The Effects Last Much Later In Life

  20-06-2016 21:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Years after being mistreated, people with adult post-bullying syndrome commonly struggle with trust and self-esteem, and develop psychiatric problems, Ellen Walser deLara’s research found. Some become people-pleasers, or rely on food, alcohol, or drugs to cope.
  
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• Katy Fischer at Four A.M., New York

  20-06-2016 21:29 via artnews.com
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• With Small UK Lit Enterprises Losing Funding, Writers Have To Do More Work To Get Noticed

  20-06-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you are an emerging writer now, there are more channels for you to get in front of the eyeballs of a publisher but you have to do a lot of the work yourself. There’s less work done by editors and publishers – they wait for writers to come to them with manuscripts that are fully formed.”
  
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• Dating App Data: Readers Find It Easier To Get Dates

  20-06-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Out of all our matches, 21% had related reading tags in common. This is much stronger than the average of 15% for all other matches that similar matches with music, films, or TV,” says MyBae, adding that “users spent longer in general” on the profiles of people with reading tags.
  
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• Japanese masks that resemble Jacques Chirac to go on display in Paris

  20-06-2016 19:44
  
  Antique theatre masks will be shown at Musée du quai Branly, due to be renamed in honour of former French presidentThree antique Japanese theatre masks bearing a striking resemblance to the former French president Jacques Chirac are to go on display at a museum in Paris that he set up 10 years ago, which will now bear his name.Jean-Jacques Aillagon, who served as France’s culture minister under Chirac, explained that the late 18th-century masks represent a Japanese theatre character
  
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• Sotheby’s Plans African Modern and Contemporary Art Auctions in London, Names Hannah O’Leary Head

  20-06-2016 19:01 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s announced today that it will begin holding sales of modern and contemporary African art in London, with Hannah O’Leary serving as the head of the department. The first auction will take place in early 2017.O’Leary first joined Sotheby’s in 2005 before moving to … Read More
  
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• Christo Really Can Walk On Water (And Here Are The Pictures)

  20-06-2016 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  200,000 floating cubes create a three-kilometre runway connecting the village of Sulzano to the small island of Monte Isola on Lake Iseo, Italy. Thousands come to walk on the saffron water walkway.
  
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• Joseph Wright's Derby homecoming: dazzling, daring – and still in danger

  20-06-2016 18:34
  
  Exclusive: In an audacious coup involving a Manhattan auction house, an anonymous agent and a secret bid, Derby has brought home a pair of masterworks by its star son, even as his wider collection faces the cutJoseph Wright of Derby’s 1766 masterpiece, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, is a painting that shoots you into outer space. So intense is the light glowing on its circle of 18th-century faces from an illuminated model of the solar system, it’s as if we are all orbiting th
  
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• NADA Names Nine New Members, Expanding L.A. Presence

  20-06-2016 18:09 via artnews.com
  The New Art Dealers Alliance has added nine new members to their roster, four of which are Los Angeles-based galleries, in keeping with NADA’s growing West Coast presence. These four galleries and the respective other new members are: ltd los angeles, … Read More
  
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• NADA Names 9 New Members, Expanding L.A. Presence

  20-06-2016 18:09 via artnews.com
  The New Art Dealers Alliance has added nine new members to their roster, four of which are Los Angeles-based galleries in keeping with NADA’s growing West Coast presence. These four galleries and the respective other new members are: ltd los angeles, … Read More
  
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• Art World Shrugs Off High-Profile Fakes Case (The Authentication Problem)

  20-06-2016 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The art market has been going through a testing period, not least its sensitivity to fluctuations in the global economy and the uncertain political outlook.”
  
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• Can Netflix Survive In The Business It Created?

  20-06-2016 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the moment, Netflix has a negative cash flow of almost $1 billion; it regularly needs to go to the debt market to replenish its coffers. Its $6.8 billion in revenue last year pales in comparison to the $28 billion or so at media giants like Time Warner and 21st Century Fox.”
  
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• Tate Modern removes macaws as visitor numbers soar

  20-06-2016 17:19
  
  Part of Tropicália installation temporarily removed on welfare grounds in anticipation of record crowds after expansionTwo colourfully plumed macaws have been temporarily removed from an art installation at the new-look Tate Modern on welfare grounds because of record numbers of visitors to the museum.
  Tate said there had been 143,000 visits since it opened on Friday, 54,000 of them on Saturday – around double the usual number, and the museum’s highest ever single-day attendan
  
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• UK Proposal To Have Brit-Made Quota For Streaming Services

  20-06-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Streaming services would be placed under the sort of obligation to support domestic production that already applies to media companies such as the BBC. If the rules are adopted, a minimum of 20% of the catalogue of Netflix and the like would have to be “European”.
  
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• Boston Globe Cuts Back Arts Coverage, Won’t Use Freelancers

  20-06-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The newspaper is cutting pages from its arts section, and freelance critics will no longer write art, music, theater and dance reviews for the paper.
  
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• 'A real-life game of The Sims': readers review Tate Modern's Switch House

  20-06-2016 16:19
  
  With the Tate opening its doors to its new Bankside extension we asked you what you thought of the ‘off-kilter pyramid’
  Adrian Searle called it “a supersized sculpture with live performance and piles of goo getting the airing they deserve”. As part of a three day celebration to launch the new Tate Modern extention we asked you to review the building and its art. Here’s what some of you said. Continue reading...
  
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• BMW Tate Live: Tarek Atoui: The Reverse Collection, review: Linger in the basement of the new Tate Modern and enjoy the moment

  20-06-2016 16:14
  
  Tate Modern opened the long-awaited Switch House last week. Some critics assumed the Tate was opening a fun palace, more intent about creating an enjoyable visitor experience than a close encounter with the arts of our time and of the future. True, there is the pleasing ascent to the 10th floor, with its 360 degree panoramic views of the city, but I encourage visitors to linger in the basement. Joined to the "old" Tate Modern by the Turbine Hall, architects Herzog and de Meuron have carved out a
  
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• Apply Now: The International Leadership Program in Visual Arts Management (ILPVAM)

  20-06-2016 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Examine global trends through this art and business executive certificate offered by NYU, Deusto Business School (Spain), and the Guggenheim Bilbao. 5-day modules in Bilbao and NYC. Scholarships.
  
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• Last Remaining Member Of The Bloomsbury Set Celebrates 100th Birthday

  20-06-2016 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Asked to sum up her life, she said: “I haven’t any imagination – but I was lucky to spend my life among fascinating people.” She couldn’t be more wrong. At 100, as those of us lucky enough to celebrate with her today are thrilled to attest, Olivier remains as original, stylish and clever as ever.
  
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• Grammys To Make Online-Only Music Eligible

  20-06-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The effort here is to protect the integrity of the Grammy Awards, and so sometimes that means typing up some rules, and sometimes that means loosening up some rules, sometimes that means contracting a category, sometimes that means adding a category.”
  
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• Synesthesia artist Jack Coulter creates 'musical painting' of Glastonbury 2016

  20-06-2016 15:42
  
  Coulter hopes those who suffer from impaired hearing will appreciate his piece in particular
  
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• Mary Seacole v Florence Nightingale: who should have the taller statue?

  20-06-2016 15:27
  
  The Florence Nightingale Society is up in arms about a new statue of Mary Seacole – but it’s not the first time public monuments have proved divisiveThey are either a fitting way to honour those who made towering contributions to public life, or a Victorian throwback vulnerable to larger-than-life egos, shifts in attitudes and the hands of bad sculptors. Either way, few examples of public art have been as divisive as statues, as a row this week over the relative merits of two pioneer
  
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• Morning Links: Three Departures At The Met Edition

  20-06-2016 13:41 via artnews.com
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• Scottish land art project celebrates first anniversary – in pictures

  20-06-2016 13:15
  
  Crawick Multiverse in Dumfries and Galloway, an outdoor artland in a former mine designed by artist Charles Jencks, celebrates its first year with a solstice festival and new installation Continue reading...
  
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• Banksy Swat van to be sold at London auction

  20-06-2016 12:00
  
  Vehicle spraypainted with heavily armed agents and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz has guide price of £200,000 to £300,000Van for sale: one careful owner, full service history, no tax, no MoT, but unique with incredible story. Offers in region of £250,000, can be picked up from Mayfair.The van in question was once used by Swat teams and is in fact a work of art by the world’s best known street artist, Banksy. Related: Banksy leaves mural and cheeky note in Bristol school as
  
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• Artists selected for John Moore painting prize shortlist unveiled

  20-06-2016 11:00
  
  Five ‘vibrant and exciting’ works in contention to win £25,000 prize, which will be announced on 7 JulyMedieval church architecture and a statue of an assassinated politician feature in works shortlisted for the UK’s biggest painting prize.The John Moores painting prize has championed contemporary British painting for nearly 60 years. Established in Liverpool in 1957, it is given biennially with previous winners including David Hockney, John Hoyland, Peter Doig and Rose W
  
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• Leighton's Flaming June to go on display in studio where it was painted

  20-06-2016 08:00
  
  London’s Leighton House museum heralds return of painter’s ‘unquestioned masterpiece’ on loan from collection in Puerto RicoOne of the most famous and widely reproduced paintings of the Victorian era – Flaming June, a searingly colourful image of a beautiful young woman drugged into sleep by the simmering heat of midsummer – is to be loaned back to the London studio where it was created in 1895.“It is the one painting by Leighton that every visitor to th
  
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