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• Antonio Lopez at El Museo del Barrio, New York

  27-06-2016 23:19 via artnews.com
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• The painful auf wiedersehen of Wolfgang Tillmans’s anti-Brexit images, Mona Hatoum's over-egged symbolism and much more in this week’s London exhibition round-up

  27-06-2016 23:00
  
  Mona Hatoum: Tate Modern (until 21 August)The first UK survey of Mona Hatoum confirms her very particular ability to inject an emotionally charged, politically conscious and often creepily physical subjectivity into the language of minimalism. Unfortunately, this can sometimes rely on one-hit first impressions and too obvious a use of reference and metaphor.
  At its best her work translates the often excruciating ordeal of her early performances into multifarious sculptural forms. Hatoum has spe
  
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• Phillips weathers the storm in first London auction since Brexit

  27-06-2016 23:00
  
  On a night of uncertainty that saw the UK stripped of its triple-A credit rating following its decision to leave the European Union (EU) and Englands football team crash out of the Euros, Phillips mustered a decent sale of 20th-century and contemporary art.No works were withdrawn prior to the 31-lot auction and there were, at times, flurries of bidding in the saleroom, despite the first four rows being conspicuously empty.
  However, the 9.8m total (11.9m with fees) fell short of the 10.21m to 14
  
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• David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life review – 'We can feel Hockney's deafness'

  27-06-2016 23:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  The artist’s humorous portraits, all with the same yellow chair, are a superheated pageant of fashion and pattern
  David Hockney is a relentlessly experimental artist, in the original sense of the word experiment, which means the testing of truth against experience. The artist is interested in how we see and how we can adequately record the evidence of our eyes. His restless quest for visual truth has led him from cubist photomontages to plein-air paintings – and
  
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• Christie’s boss Jussi Pylkkänen plots the next 250 years

  27-06-2016 23:00
  
  A global outlook, an understanding of buyer psychology, the ability to stay relevant and the retention of experienced specialists: these are the prerequisites of the modern auctioneer, according to Jussi Pylkknen, the global president of Christies, reflecting on the firms 250-year anniversary, which falls this July.You have to forecast and grow bravely, otherwise you fall behind the curve, he says, after revealing the auction houses decision to open an exhibition space in Beijing in October.For
  
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• Here Are Fluxus Co-Founder Ben Patterson’s Five Favorite Sounds

  27-06-2016 22:52 via artnews.com
  Fluxus pioneer, artist, and double bassist Ben Patterson has died at the age of 82. In this illuminating, entertaining, and fairly adorable video from 2012, produced by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Patterson discussed Fluxus and listed his “top … Read More
  
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• Ticketmaster’s Ticket Voucher Settlement Has Been A Big Fiasco

  27-06-2016 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The entire process was flawed and confusing from the start. Ticketmaster emailed people their voucher codes. When people went to the Ticketmaster website to get the codes, they had disappeared without explanation. Another annoying detail: Part of the settlement included vouchers for $2.25, which could only be redeemed as a discount on additional tickets.”
  
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• NY Post Lets Its Theatre Critic Go

  27-06-2016 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The steady decrease in professional journalists covering theatre and reviewing Broadway and Off-Broadway productions has been made evident once again, as the New York Post’s first-string theatre critic, Elisabeth Vincentelli, has apparently been let go.”
  
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• Brexit’s Impact On The Arts – It Comes Down To Money

  27-06-2016 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne (who warned against Brexit), might not have been popular among the culturati but he did genuinely value the arts and, especially in the latest spending round, went out of his way to protect funding for our national institutions. All those old conversations we used to have about arts funding (“instrumental” versus “intrinsic”) will disappear—quaint reminders of indulgent times past.”
  
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• Ben Patterson, Cornerstone of Fluxus and Experimental Art, Dies at 82

  27-06-2016 21:27 via artnews.com
  Ben Patterson, the artist, composer, and double bassist whose freewheeling life and career saw him play with classical orchestras, help found the Fluxus movement, take a nearly 20-year break from performance to live what he termed “ordinary life,” and return … Read More
  
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• What Boston Loses As The Globe “Refocuses” Its Arts Coverage

  27-06-2016 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The truth is, “compelling” stories can be found just about everywhere online; arts groups regularly post feature material on their websites. What are we losing? Something that is becoming increasingly rare in the world of professional journalism — invitations, via criticism, to think seriously and honestly about artistic accomplishment and failure. Let’s not pretend it is a fair trade.”
  
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• Hiwa K Named Winner of the city of Kassel’s Biennial Arnold-Bode-Preis

  27-06-2016 19:00 via artnews.com
  Earlier today Bertram Hilgen, the Lord Mayor of Kassel in Germany, announced that the artist Hiwa K won his city’s biennial Arnold–Bode-Preis. Named in honor of Documenta’s founder, the prize comes with €10,000 (or about $11,000), and will be awarded … Read More
  
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• Hiwa K Named Winner of Documenta Foundation’s Biennial Arnold-Bode-Preis

  27-06-2016 19:00 via artnews.com
  Earlier today Bertram Hilgen, the Lord Mayor of Kassel in Germany, announced that the artist Hiwa K won the Documenta Foundation’s biennial Arnold–Bode-Preis. Named in honor of Documenta’s founder, the prize comes with €10,000 (or about $11,000), and will be … Read More
  
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• Frieze Announces Participants For 14th Edition of London Fair

  27-06-2016 18:13 via artnews.com
  Today, Frieze revealed the galleries, curators, and artists that will be participating in the 14th edition of Frieze London and Frieze Projects, and the 5th edition of Frieze Masters, all set to take place in London October 6–9, 2016.Highlights of … Read More
  
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• Second quiz

  27-06-2016 17:37
  A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which the players (as individuals or in teams) attempt to answer questions correctly. In some countries, a quiz is also a brief assessment used in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and/or skills.
  
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• Munich museums sold art looted from Jewish families to Nazis after war, new research shows

  27-06-2016 17:07
  
  Thousands of artworks looted by the Nazis from Jewish families and recovered by the Monuments Men after the Second World War were later sold instead of being returned to their original owners, new research shows.
  Entrusted with returning about 10,600 artworks to the original owners after the Monuments Men left Germany, Bavarias State Paintings Collections instead gave away or sold property looted from Jews to Germansincluding to some prominent Nazis, the London-based Commission for Looted Art i
  
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• Munich museums sold art looted from Jewish families to Nazis after war

  27-06-2016 17:07
  
  Thousands of artworks looted by the Nazis from Jewish families and recovered by the Monuments Men after the Second World War were later sold instead of being returned to their original owners, new research shows.
  Entrusted with returning about 10,600 artworks to the original owners after the Monuments Men left Germany, Bavarias State Paintings Collections instead gave away or sold property looted from Jews to Germansincluding to some prominent Nazis, the London-based Commission for Looted Art i
  
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• Poets On Tour In The UK Deal With Brexit During Readings At The Border Of Wales

  27-06-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All of us shift our readings slightly. Gillian reads Lament, Jackie In my country, Carol Ann Weasel Words: all poems written years ago, but relevant today. There are no overt political statements but the choices are fierce. The people who come to speak to us at the signing tell us that the poetry has helped.”
  
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• What Happens When Publishers Get A Deeply Reported Book By A Woman Of Color

  27-06-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That was the whole point. I did not wish that my book were Eat, Pray, Love. As the only journalist to live undercover in North Korea, I had risked imprisonment to tell a story of international importance by the only means possible. By casting my book as personal rather than professional—by marketing me as a woman on a journey of self-discovery, rather than a reporter on a groundbreaking assignment—I was effectively being stripped of my expertise on the subject I knew best. It
  
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• Historians, You Can Save The Internet

  27-06-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If by “save” we mean “archive”: “Philip Napoli (Rutgers Univ.) argued that with current news archiving practices, it would be easier for future historians to study local newspapers from 1940 than from 2015.”
  
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• Québecois Artists Get A Lot More Exhibition Space

  27-06-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One special feature is an underground passageway that links the new pavilion to the museum’s three existing buildings—which include a converted 1867 prison—that doubles as an exhibition space for a work from the permanent collection the museum has never been able to display in its entirety.”
  
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• ICA Philadelphia Appoints Meg Onli Assistant Curator

  27-06-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania has named Meg Onli assistant curator, effective immediately. Onli, a curator and writer who primarily focuses on race and the construction of space, had previously served as program coordinator at … Read More
  
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• Can Pittsburgh Live Up To August Wilson?

  27-06-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Long term, we need to see the community build upon those early successes. … We are very grateful to the Cultural Trust, but, ultimately, we want the African-American community to develop most of this programming.”
  
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• In a world of fear and loathing, we need art more than ever

  27-06-2016 15:38
  
  Attempts to downgrade the importance of art in education are plain wrong. Creativity is transforming lives, and always willThis has been a grisly week, and the future looks rather a mess, so as light relief I’d like to report on something uplifting and beautiful I saw in London last week – an exhibition by artists working with the charity Intoart of ceramics, prints and paintings. It included a stunning 48-piece tiled frieze by Mawuena Kattah, full of energy, colour, wit, and all abo
  
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• The Border Between Austria And Italy Is Shifting, Sometimes Dramatically

  27-06-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even the biggest and most stable things, like glaciers, mountains—these huge objects, they can change in a few years. We live on a planet that changes, and we try to make rules, to give meaning, but this meaning is completely artificial because nature, basically, doesn’t give a shit.”
  
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• Also (Possibly) Screwed By Brexit: The Art Market

  27-06-2016 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Because the pound sterling has fallen dramatically, says one expert, “the supply is going to dry up — particularly in the Old Masters market.”
  
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• Screwed By Brexit: Theatre, Dance, Film Industries In Britain

  27-06-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Between 2007 and 2015, a European Union program provided nearly $145 million to Britain’s film, television and games industry, according to an open letter published by a number of British film producers.”
  
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• Writing About Perfectly Invisible People: Middle-Aged Women

  27-06-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A middle-aged woman who’s not preoccupied with handling herself or taking care of someone else is a dangerous, erratic being. What is she up to? And what’s the point of her being up to anything? She has no children, she has no family, the only thing she has is her own life and what good will that do anyone.”
  
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• Center Stage Was A Perfect Ballet Movie, So What Happened To Its Sequel?

  27-06-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The dance scenes should ideally be the most memorable part of any dance movie, but beyond the tutus, the world of Center Stage was surprisingly richly developed.”
  
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• A New, Small, Perfect Shakespearean Theatre – At A Castle In France

  27-06-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Todd wanted to make a building that ‘is absolutely up to date but could be 500 years old’, by which he means in spirit rather than in detail.”
  
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• Morning Links: Bill Cunningham Edition

  27-06-2016 14:02 via artnews.com
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• This Writer Spent Eight Years Investigating Every Claim Made About Pit Bulls, So Of Course She’s Met With Death Threats At Every Turn

  27-06-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After voluminous research, Dickey came to the conclusion that the venom of the haters, who themselves possess the uncontrollable obsession with violence they ascribe to their canine target, is aimed not at these dogs but rather at the cypher of their stereotyped owner.”
  
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• Teach Your Robot To Be More Human By Settling It In With Unlimited Netflix

  27-06-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Six hundred hours of video sounds like a lot, but it’s not really that much. By the time we’re 10 years old, we’ve logged nearly 60,000 hours of waking-hours experience.”
  
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• Tenor Albert Remedios Sang Wagner Like No Other

  27-06-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Rising from an apprenticeship as a welder in Liverpool’s dockyards to a pinnacle of international success on the world’s opera stages, Alberto Remedios, who has died aged 81, traced an almost mythological career path, appropriate for the singer who so memorably incarnated the role of Siegfried in Wagner’s Ring.”
  
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• All Honor And Respect To Ralph Stanley’s Voice

  27-06-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Stanley’s voice has been called “a force of nature,” “otherworldly,” “elemental,” “eerie.” Try to describe it and you inevitably tumble into a deep mountain mine of contradictory clichés. Trying to capture its singular tone in a fresh way risks foolishness. (“Like a woodwind crossed with a coonhound, turned up to eleven” is a note I just jotted down, before scratching it out.)”
  
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• George Lucas abandons plans to build a museum in Chicago after two-year legal battle

  27-06-2016 12:39
  
  Chicagos dreams for a museum built by George Lucas now belong to a galaxy far, far away. The Star Wars creator announced on 24 June that he is abandoning plans to establish a museum in the Windy City to house his memorabilia and art collection, which includes paintings by Norman Rockwell. Lucas is now looking for a site in California.The film-makers decision comes after a two-year legal fight to win approval for the Chicago museum, dubbed the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Friends of the Parks,
  
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• Picasso exhibition at the Tate – archive, 27 June 1960

  27-06-2016 06:30
  
  27 June 1960: He was, of course, uncannily precocious, and at 19 his technical assurance was astonishingSixty years ago the Picasso whose irresistible weight of imagery has both convinced and bewildered a whole generation had not yet emerged. Doubtless that weight will have its full impact when the big retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery opens next week. Meanwhile at the O’Hana Gallery in Carlos Place, W.1, a collection of pastels, water colours, and drawings done mainly between 1
  
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• Top Stories From AJBlogs For 06.26.16

  27-06-2016 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Masterpiece of Design”: MoMA Flies Its Copy of “Rainbow Flag” for Pride Week; SFMOMA Marche…
  I scooped the Museum of Modern Art onTwitter, regarding its observance of Pride Week. On Thursday, I tweeted about the museum’s prominent display (in front of the picture window overlooking its Sculpture Garden) of … read moreAJBlog: CultureGrrlPublished 2016-06-26Serious Subjects, Powerful Dancing
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