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• Petra Cortright at Ever Gold Projects

  21-06-2016 23:30 via artnews.com
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• Why writers covet—and get—shows in museums and galleries

  21-06-2016 23:00
  In April, I was on a panel about the 1980s East Village art scene and was asked for some images to project on the screen behind me. Instead of works of art, I took pictures of some of the reviews and reports I published in the East Village Eye newspaper, where I was art editor from 1983 to 1985. I had a great line-up of contributors then who produced some remarkable writing. None of it is remembered today. Occasional art criticism can be like that, gone as fast as a breeze on a summer day.
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• What is art for? Taking risks and looking for ‘essential value’

  21-06-2016 23:00
  
  Art has long been a passion of mineever since my mother, who was an artist, took me to the Frick Collection, the Metropolitan Museum, and of course the Museum of Modern Art, when I was young.Over the years, my wife Janine and I have collected numerous works of artfrom post-war art, to Old Master paintings, to Renaissance and baroque bronzes, which you may have seen on exhibition at the Frick last year. And I currently sit on the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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• The ICP takes the downtown plunge with Bowery reopening

  21-06-2016 23:00
  
  If the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York is any indication, a move downtown can do big things for a museums brand and audience. The International Center of Photography (ICP) is certainly betting on it. The centre, which has been closed for a year and a half, is due to reopen on the Bowery on 23 June in a ground-floor space it bought for $23.5m.The new venue has roughly the same exhibition space as the museums former midtown site (where its photography school will stay until at least 201
  
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• Picasso and Modigliani portraits make an impression at Sotheby’s auction

  21-06-2016 23:00
  
  Against gloomy media forecasts for the global art market and Britains impending EU referendum, yesterday's (21 June) Impressionist and Modern evening sale at Sothebys proved, once again, that the top end of the art market rarely reflects the state of the outside world.The figures paint a happy picture for the auction house: a 90.7m hammer total (103.3m with fees) against an estimate of 81.8m-99m, with an 89% sell-through rate. Out of 27 lots, 11 hammered above the upper estimate and only three
  
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• Old and new: ancient objects paired with contemporary commissions for Venice Biennale’s 2017 Iraqi pavilion

  21-06-2016 23:00
  
  The Ruya Foundation, a Baghdad-based non-governmental body, will present an exhibition featuring both ancient and contemporary works in the Iraqi pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale next year (13 May-26 November 2017).
  The show will be co-curated by Tamara Chalabi, the co-founder of Ruya, and Paolo Colombo, who organised the Istanbul Biennial in 1999. Entitled Archaic, the exhibition is the product of over two years of dialogue between Chalabi and Colombo and will feature ancient artefacts fro
  
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• Hermitage treasures come to Paris for the next Biennale des Antiquaires

  21-06-2016 23:00
  
  Thirty-five works drawn from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg are due to go on show at the 28th edition of the Biennale des Antiquaires this autumn at Pariss Grand Palais (10-18 September). The special, non-selling exhibition will include objects such as vases, clocks and candelabra in porcelain, silver and bronze dating from the 18th century. A portrait of Louis XV made by the Svres porcelain factory in 1761 is among the works.
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• Contemporary Art Society and Frieze London launch acquisition fund for UK regional museums

  21-06-2016 23:00
  
  The Contemporary Art Society (CAS) and Frieze London have announced they are partnering on a new acquisition fund to support museums in the UK regions. This years 50,000 fund has been awarded to Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Mima). The museum in the north-east of England plans to buy a work at Frieze London in October that addresses the migration crisis, according to Caroline Douglas, the director of CAS.The public institution beat 70 other members in an open competition for the award.
  
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• Art Cologne reschedules to avoid clash with Berlin Gallery Weekend

  21-06-2016 23:00
  
  Germanys leading art fair Art Cologne has moved its 2017 edition forward by a day to avoid a scheduling clash with the popular Berlin Gallery Weekend. Daniel Hug, the director of Art Cologne, says the decision will allow international visitors to visit both Art Cologne and Gallery Weekend comfortably in the same week.
  In March, Hug announced that, due to scheduling issues at the fairs venue, the 2017 edition would take place between 28 April and 2 May, dates usually reserved for the Berlin even
  
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• BP Portrait Award 2016: Third time lucky as artist wins prestigious £30,000 prize with same model

  21-06-2016 22:34
  
  Judges said Clara Drummond's work stood ourt due to its 'subtle, enigmatic nature, and for the indelible impression the artist's skill makes on the viewer'
  
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• Clara Drummond's Girl in a Liberty Dress wins BP portrait award

  21-06-2016 21:30
  
  Third time lucky for Edinburgh-born artist, who picks up £30,000 prize for latest portrayal of fellow painter Kirsty BuchananPersistence has paid off for Clara Drummond, who has been named winner of the UK’s most prestigious portrait prize for her third portrayal of the same sitter.Drummond was selected for the BP portrait award show for paintings of her friend Kirsty Buchanan in 2013 and 2014 but missed out on the main prize. Continue reading...
  
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• 2016 Jarman Award Shortlist Announced

  21-06-2016 19:49 via artnews.com
  Film London, the film and media agency for the city of London, has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Jarman Award, naming Rachel Maclean, Sophia Al Maria, Heather Phillipson, Mikhail Karikis, Cécile B. Evans, and Shona Illingworth as finalists for … Read More
  
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• Hot Potatoes: Abstraction Flourishes Underground in the Hamptons

  21-06-2016 18:09 via artnews.com
  ‘Territory” takes place in artist Karen Hese Flatow’s Amagansett, Long Island studio, a former potato barn (remember “Long Island Potatoes?”). To see the work you literally have to go underground and enter a glittering white space. What you experience down … Read More
  
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• Newcastle's most buzzing night spot? A cowpat on Town Moor

  21-06-2016 17:05
  
  Bafta-winning wildlife soundman Chris Watson – once a punk rocker with Cabaret Voltaire – has used tiny microphones to record dung flies and Newcastle United fans in his year-long project to create an audio portrait of the cityOf all the improbable animal noises Chris Watson has recorded over the years – limpets grazing, cod purring, a single ant walking, Kenyan hippos chuckling, the pitter-patter of Northumbrian caterpillar excrement falling from a tree – none is more en
  
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• Newcastle's most buzzing night spot? A cowpat on the Town Moor

  21-06-2016 17:05
  
  Bafta-winning wildlife soundman Chris Watson – once a punk rocker with Cabaret Voltaire – has used tiny microphones to record dung flies and Newcastle United fans in his year-long project to create an audio portrait of the cityOf all the improbable animal noises Chris Watson has recorded over the years – limpets grazing, cod purring, a single ant walking, Kenyan hippos chuckling, the pitter-patter of Northumbrian caterpillar excrement falling from a tree – none is more en
  
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• A ‘Canterbury Tales’ For The Age Of The Refugee

  21-06-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Refugee Tales features stories including [Chris] Cleave’s ‘The Lorry Driver’s Tale’, [Ali] Smith’s ‘The Detainee’s Tale’, [Marina] Lewycka’s ‘The Dependant’s Tale’ … [The book] stems from refugee charity the Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, which sends volunteers into the two detention centres at Gatwick airport to speak to the hundreds of people who are held there.”
  
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• A Big New Tate Modern – Is Bigger Really Better?

  21-06-2016 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Tate vaunts these statistics with the pride with which the Kremlin used to announce an increase in tractor production. But, the footsore visitor might wonder, can there be too much of a good thing? And how good are the things in Tate Modern?”
  
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• Vice President, Artistic Programming and Executive Producer, Caramoor

  21-06-2016 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  ABOUT CARAMOOR
  Our mission is to enrich the lives of audiences through innovative and diverse musical performances of the highest quality, mentor young professional musicians, and engage children through interactive, educational experiences that deepen their relationship to and understanding of music. These three prongs – music performance, musician mentoring, and music education – infuse everything we do.
  Located on a 90-acre campus in Katonah, New York, Caramoor Center for Music an
  
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• How Hollywood Blockbusters Can Explain The Rise Of Donald Trump And Bernie Sanders

  21-06-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The summer blockbuster [in 2016] has gone from something to be enjoyed with popcorn and a Coke to something that may possibly shatter your existential reality. Needless to say, all these blockbusters made for consumption here and abroad have a common theme: the world is ending and (almost) no one can save us, except for an unlikely anti-hero.”
  
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• Watch A Conservator Clean The Gunk Off A Van Gogh

  21-06-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This video from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston takes us behind the scenes of the conservation work necessary to restore Vincent van Gogh’s Houses at Auvers. According to [conservator] Lydia Vagts … the ‘gunk’ … comes from previous cleanings, and includes varnish residues, wax residues, and cotton fibers.”
  
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• Recreating Van Gogh Paintings In A Water Dish

  21-06-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ebru, a decorative paper art, hails from East and Central Asia in the 10th and 16th centuries, respectively. The technique involves sprinkling and brushing pigments onto the surface of oily water in a pan, then laying paper atop the water, effectively dyeing the paper with tendrils of color. [Garip] Ay is classically trained in the art form, and his loose, paisley-like patterns beautifully mimic the Dutch post-Impressionist’s celestial swirls.” (video)
  
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• Her Whole Life Was Aspiring to Fame: The Genius of Diane Arbus

  21-06-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  It’s a shame that Hollywood made such a hash of their one attempt to render Diane Arbus on screen. Her life begs for a biopic. There is a seemingly endless string of sexual encounters, including multiple affairs, orgies, an incestuous relationship … Read More
  
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• Time Out London’s Theatre Editor Throws Shade At Critics – By Name

  21-06-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I read quite a lot of theatre reviews, and while the best are all sorts of stimulating, I kind of think: we all bloody sound like each other, don’t we? I mean, there’s some textural variety: Susannah Clapp is poetic; Michael Billington does puns; Quentin Letts hates theatre. But, as a rule, it’s difficult to see exactly how theatre criticism has stylistically shifted since Tynan’s time – or before that, even: for Ben Brantley, the most powerful theatre critic
  
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• Why Audiences Love The Acoustics In Some Concert Halls And Hate Them In Others

  21-06-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nicholas Edwards has provided acoustic design for some of the most loved music and theatrical venues in the world. In this video, Nick shares what makes concert hall acoustics vary widely – even when they are of similar shape – and the key to making a hall loved by audiences.” (video)
  
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• ‘Finishing His Sentences’ – Novelist Walter Mosley Remembers His Father

  21-06-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Two thousand sixteen marks the 100-year anniversary of my father, Leroy Mosley’s, birth. He was and is my inspiration, the man who taught me to bob and weave in life and art. I came into being shaped by the stories about his childhood in Louisiana and the grinding poverty he endured there, the bloodletting and laughter in the Fifth Ward in Houston and the harsh enlightenment he received in the Army.”
  
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• Morning Links: Brexit Edition

  21-06-2016 14:42 via artnews.com
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• The Next Alexander Hamilton Is More Than Ready For His Close-Up: He’s Beaten Cancer

  21-06-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Javier Muñoz has been Lin-Manuel Miranda’s understudy and alternate from the beginning of Hamilton‘s development, and – except for the ten weeks he spent recovering from surgery and radiation therapy – he’s been playing Hamilton on Sundays and Miranda’s days off since the show opened. Muñoz even got to perform the role for both First Couples.
  
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• Wild New Designs For The Next Generation Of Digital Pianos

  21-06-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Roland Digital Piano Design Awards were open to designers and design students from around the world. Competitors were encouraged to conceive a futuristic instrument that broke away from tradition. While the focus was on the look and structure of the piano, competitors had the option of proposing alternative digital functions and sounds as part of their concept.”
  
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• The Performance Artist Who Thinks He Can Dance (He’s Right, Sort Of)

  21-06-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A few days before Ryan McNamara’s performance piece Battleground premièred at the Guggenheim, last month, his cast of nine dancers had clocked an impressive six hundred and fifty hours of rehearsal. Unfortunately, they’d practiced together for only one of them. That might have caused most choreographers to panic, but McNamara isn’t a choreographer, he’s a performance artist, and fragmentation is kind of his thing.”
  
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• Arts Enrollment Is Plunging In UK Secondary Schools

  21-06-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This year’s loss is more than five times the size of the loss in 2015 … According to official statistics published by exam watchdog Ofqual, the number of GCSE exams being taken in art and design subjects, design and technology, drama, media film and TV studies, music, and performing/expressive arts have all fallen since last year.”
  
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• Eames, Bo Bardi and Buckminster caught on camera

  21-06-2016 13:37
  
  New Yorks Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) has launched a three-part film series on the greats of post-war design and architecture. The programme kicked off on 16 June with the short digital projection Harry Bertoias Sculpture by Clifford West (1965), and a longer look at midcentury designs most dynamic duo, husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames in a 2011 documentary by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey. The two other treats in store are The World of Buckminster Fuller (23 Jun
  
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• It’s Time To Stop Arguing Over The Term ‘Nonprofit’

  21-06-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s for us to change the world, but not that word. That is the prerogative of the U.S. government, which created and sustains the confusing terms ‘nonprofit’ (not existing or done for the purpose of making a profit) and the distinct and different ‘not-for-profit,’ which merely serves as a classification in the U.S. tax code.”
  
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• Sculptor defends his Mary Seacole statue: 'If she was white, would there be this resistance?'

  21-06-2016 13:29
  
  A memorial to the Jamaican nurse seen as a heroine of the Crimean war has caused a furore. Martin Jennings hits back at critics Related: Rubbishing Mary Seacole is another move to hide the contributions of black people | Patrick Vernon Everything in Martin Jennings’ Oxfordshire studio is just so. From the wall of industrial shelving – housing neat rows of hammers, chisels, gloves and goggles – to the way its west flank opens up, allowing tall statues out and the summer daylight
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.20.16

  21-06-2016 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Noticing before knowing
  My favorite books about writing are really books about thinking, and crafting those thoughts into powerful, public form. So, whenever I’m in a thinking thicket … read more
  AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2016-06-20Monday Recommendation: Chris Ziemba
  Chris Ziemba, Manhattan Lullaby (Outside in Music). His abilities honed by studies at the Eastman School of Music and Juilliard, 29-year-old pianist Chris Ziemba is in demand on the New York scene. His debut
  
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  21-06-2016 10:00
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• The Funeral Party: scenes from the world's most morbid costume ball

  21-06-2016 09:00
  
  On the foreboding date of 16.06.16, a gothic gala ball took over a funeral home in Hobart, Australia. It was, for want of a better phrase, once in a lifetimeThe mournful sound of strings wash over the chapel as we enter. White flowers plucked from two coffins on either side of the door are handed to us by a woman in a black veil; another woman, with fake black blood dripping from one eye, cheerfully checks my coat. A string quartet is made up to look like cadavers, with wispy grey hair framing w
  
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• How we made Tate Modern

  21-06-2016 09:00
  
  ‘People said if we were going to save a power station, it should be Battersea. But I thought it was too big’When we first visited Bankside Power Station for the original Tate Modern competition in 1994, it seemed like the castle in Sleeping Beauty – an enormous urban mountain that was completely overgrown, surrounded by barbed wire and prickly roses, as if protecting the hidden beauty inside. It seemed dangerous. It is totally unimaginable now, but this was a huge chunk of the
  
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• Painters’ Paintings: From Freud to Van Dyck review – an electric conversation

  21-06-2016 07:00
  
  National Gallery, London
  From the sensous Cézanne owned by Degas to van Dyck’s horde of Titians, this sparky show reveals the chains of inspiration linking painters through the agesPaul Cézanne is the painter’s painter par excellence, or so it emerges in a sparkily clever, sensuously displayed exhibition at the National Gallery in London that sees great art through through the eyes of great artists. Cézanne’s dappled geometries, slices of solid sunlight and
  
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• Marie Lavandier appointed new director of Louvre-Lens

  21-06-2016 04:54
  
  Marie Lavandier has been appointed director of Louvre-Lens, the outpost of the Paris museum based in northern France which opened in December 2012. Lavandier replaces Xavier Dectot, who stepped down earlier this year to head the department of art and design at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
  Lavandier is a specialist in 20th-century art, while Dectot is a medieval art expert; her contract runs for five years and can be renewed thereafter for three-year periods.In 2014, Lavandier w
  
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• Five Stories From Last Week’s AJ You Shouldn’t Miss (Meaning Of Art Edition)

  21-06-2016 03:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Can computers help us better understand art? What the world thinks is creative. Why is it still okay to discriminate against stupid people? How gaming is taking over. And the “Rotten Tomatoes of Books” reveals a problem with how books are reviewed.
  
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• City Of Boston Unveils Big New Arts Initiatives

  21-06-2016 01:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In line with the recommendations of a newly minted master plan for the arts ecosphere, the measures include city-led efforts as well as partnerships with philanthropies, area museums and other outside groups. In some cases, specific dollar contributions are promised; in others, organizations are pledging in-kind donations in the form of facility space or professional expertise.”
  
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