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• Unveiled: Rodin’s adoration of a young english actress

  30-06-2016 23:00
  Auguste Rodin died in November 1917 as war continued to rage in Europe. He had achieved acclaim and gained many friends in the UK, but because of the war, British mourners were unable to travel to France, so a memorial service was held in London. It took place at St Margarets Church, next to Westminster Abbey, on 24 November. From there, the mourners crossed the road to pay tribute at The Burghers of Calais, the multi-figure bronze sculpture standing in Victoria Embankment Gardens, close to the
  
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• The seriousness of a child at play: Kenneth Baker on Joel Shapiro at the Nasher Sculpture Center

  30-06-2016 23:00
  Anyone who saw early presentations of Joel Shapiro's sculpture in New York will remember a small untitled floor piece from 1973: a foot-long wood mannikin pulled limb from limb, its wire spring ligaments exposed.
  The bad boy gesture of this anomalous pieceits dismissal of sculpture's future as a representational art, its equation of construction with destructiongot immediate attention. Critics quickly connected it with Alberto Giacometti's Surrealist bronze Woman with Her Throat Cut (1932), ano
  
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• Ragnar Kjartansson: New Romantic

  30-06-2016 23:00
  The multidisciplinary work of Ragnar Kjartansson does not fall into conventional categories. Histories of film, music, theatre and literature all feed into his video installations and performances as well as his drawings and paintings. The 40-year-old Icelandic artist stages works that can go on for hours and even weeks. These epics oscillate between fact and fiction, the poetic and the absurd, and generally involve many participantsactors, musicians, friends, family members and himself. Partly
  
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• Mystery over Bosch's piper

  30-06-2016 23:00
  
  With the spotlight on Hieronymus Bosch in the year of the 500th anniversary of his death, a Dutch specialist has raised an intriguing puzzle. Why is the prominent bagpipe player in the foreground of The Haywain holding his instrument incorrectly? The piper is the figure in blue, just to the right of the centre. He is seducing the nun with a sausage dangling on a string. The Haywain is now one of the key works in the Prados current retrospective.
  Jos Koldeweij, a curator of the exhibition held e
  
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• Germany, slow to accept the Spanish Golden Age, now opens its museum doors

  30-06-2016 23:00
  Canonical and universally acknowledged today, Spanish Golden Age painting (early 16th-late 17th centuries) was, for historical reasons, an unknown quantity in the rest of Europe until the end of the Napoleonic Peninsular War (1807-14), when paintings began to find their way to the markets and museums of London and Paris.
  Once the Congress of Vienna established peace on the continent in 1815, Spain began to attract visitors. The British were encouraged by aficionados like Richard Ford, the autho
  
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• British art comes out on top at Christie’s 250th anniversary sale

  30-06-2016 23:00
  
  There was a sense of occasion during last nights curated anniversary sale, which saw Christies offer 31 lots of art by British artists.
  The sale fetched 87.2m (99.5m with fees), just below the total estimate of 95.7m-138m, and saw an 87% sell-through rate, with 27 out of the 31 lots finding buyers. The only disappointment of the sale was Lucian Freuds Ib and her Husband (1992), which carried an estimate of 18m and failed to sell. It had previously sold at Christies New York in 2007 for $19.4m w
  
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• Ai Weiwei in Pittsburgh

  30-06-2016 23:00
  Its the summer of Ai Weiwei in Pittsburgh. The Chinese artist and activist discusses two exhibitions on show in Andy Warhols hometown in this video interview, made available exclusively to The Art Newspaper (Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei at the Andy Warhol Museum, until 28 August, and Zodiac Heads at the Carnegie Museum of Art, until 29 August). Ai travelled to Pittsburgh in June for the openingshis first visit to the US since his travel ban was lifted by the Chinese government.
  Although the two artis
  
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• Report Urges BBC To Drop License Fee And Find Better Source Of Funding

  30-06-2016 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The report claimed the licence fee was “vulnerable in the face of changes in technology and consumption”. It continued: “It is in any case far from an ideal system – it has failed to guarantee real independence and is charged at a flat rate. The BBC’s independence has also been compromised by the insecurity of its establishment by a royal charter and the process behind the appointments to its governing body.”
  
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• Obama library architects chosen

  30-06-2016 22:54
  
  The verdict is in: Tod Williams and Billie Tsien will design the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, the presidents hometown. The husband-and-wife team beat out six other firms on the shortlist for the USs next presidential library. Most of the other contenders, including Adjaye Associates, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Renzo Piano and Snohetta, have won high-profile museum commissions of their own in recent years.Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are best known for their divisive design of the Ameri
  
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• Christie’s Nets $133.2 M. During Sale of British Work in London, Led by New Record for Henry Moore

  30-06-2016 22:35 via artnews.com
  The evening sales in London wrapped with the Defining British Art Evening Sale, a curated auction of masterpieces by English artists from the last three centuries that delivered a haul of £99.5 million ($133.2 million). The sell-through rate of 87 percent by lot … Read More
  
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• Critic Tim Page Writes About Trying To Rebuild His Life After A Traumatic Brain Injury

  30-06-2016 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I was somehow convinced that the return to my house would envelop and embrace me and make me whole once more. In fact, the mix of comfortable familiarity and my own freshly acquired strangeness made me feel more dissociated than ever. There was too much “stuff” and I could never find anything that I wanted; trips up and down stairs were plotted like military operations, while coordination of my various remote controls — television, cable, DVD, CD – seemed a sadisti
  
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• Here’s What’s Really Killing The Met Opera

  30-06-2016 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You can wrangle on and on about what the Met should do to cut costs and sell more tickets, but you may be wasting your time and breath. For if you know anything at all about economics, you’ve probably already got a pretty good idea of what’s happening there. It sounds like a raging case of cost disease—one that could be fatal.”
  
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• Daniel Buren at Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

  30-06-2016 21:06 via artnews.com
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• On College Campuses, A Movement To Get Rid Of Student Newspapers

  30-06-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As student activists call for the institutions around them to confront issues of diversity and inclusion, campus newspapers have been critiqued as well. But activists are not just calling for reform—editors of campus papers are struggling to improve their papers alongside student bodies that, in some cases, would like to see student newspapers as an institution disappear.”
  
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• Los Angeles’s Rosamund Felsen Gallery to Close

  30-06-2016 20:22 via artnews.com
  Los Angeles’s Rosamund Felsen Gallery has announced that it will be closing after nearly four decades in business. One of the oldest running galleries in L.A., Rosamund Felsen first opened in 1978 on North La Cienega Boulevard, in the heart … Read More
  
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• Do Readers Still Care Which Magazine Published The Story They Just Read?

  30-06-2016 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As the internet solidifies its role as a leading news source amid continued declines in print, news organization homepages are losing traction. Magazine stories are increasingly unmoored from the outlets that published them, and from the brands that once all but guaranteed their legitimacy. In the US, more than 60 percent of social media users now access news through platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and news organizations harvest nearly half their traffic from social media.”
  
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• Sotheby’s Poaches Gagosian’s L.A. Gallery Director to Expand the House’s West Coast Presence

  30-06-2016 20:02 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s announced today that it had hired Candy Coleman, the director of Gagosian Gallery’s Los Angeles outpost, as a Contemporary Art specialist tasked with beefing up the auction house’s presence on the west coast.Coleman has spent over two decades at … Read More
  
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• Alex Ross Looks At Music Used As A Weapon

  30-06-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The intersection of music and violence has inspired a spate of academic studies. On my desk is a bleak stack of books examining torture and harassment, the playlists of Iraq War soldiers and interrogators, musical tactics in American crime-prevention efforts, sonic cruelties inflicted in the Holocaust and other genocides, the musical preferences of Al Qaeda militants and neo-Nazi skinheads.”
  
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• Let’s Just Stop Reviving The Tarzan Franchise, It’s Embarrassing

  30-06-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the DNA of the character is the idea that a clever white man can bring order to the ‘dark continent’ through his own brand of clearly delineated, culturally specific morality. That’s not exactly the most modern idea of a hero.”
  
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• What You Know Versus What You Say – It’s Complicated

  30-06-2016 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I am surrounded by colleagues who study members of our species by presenting them with questionnaires. They trust the answers they receive and have ways, they assure me, of checking their veracity. But who says that what people say about themselves reveals actual emotions and motivations?”
  
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• How Do You Make A Really Tiny Apartment Livable? These Hong Kong Architects Have Some Ideas

  30-06-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A group of architects from one of the world’s most densely populated cities has created the kind of convertible spaces that make it possible for two humans and three cats to reside in the same 309-square-foot area.” (video)
  
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• Many Galleries Will Be Closed This Weekend!

  30-06-2016 17:37 via artnews.com
  Just a quick service announcement that it’s Independence Day this coming Monday, July 4 in the United States of America, which means that quite a few galleries are closing their doors on Saturday and Sunday so that dealers and staff … Read More
  
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• Seeking Equity In The Arts (As Opposed To Equality)

  30-06-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It falls to those seeking fair equity to propose a new way to allocate resources, with all the pros and cons on the table, for there to be a basis of discussion. Put another way, those who call for redressing inequity — and here I’ll expand this discussion to include diversity and inclusion, which suffer from the same definitional complexities — must propose ways to achieve the equity they seek.”
  
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• National Gallery to show Michelangelo statue for first time in UK

  30-06-2016 17:29
  
  Image of naked Christ will star in 2017 exhibition of works by great artist and his less famous friend Sebastiano del PiomboA Michelangelo statue of a naked Christ will be shown in the UK for the first time as part of a major exhibition at the National Gallery next year.The gallery’s director, Gabriel Finaldi, revealed details on Thursday of a show that will explore a friendship and collaboration between the Florentine Michelangelo, arguably the greatest and most influential artist ever, a
  
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• National Gallery to show Michelangelo statue for first time in the UK

  30-06-2016 17:29
  
  The image of a naked Christ will star in a 2017 exhibition celebrating the works of the great artist and his less famous friend Sebastiano del PiomboA Michelangelo statue of a naked Christ will be shown in the UK for the first time as part of major exhibition at the National Gallery next year.The gallery’s director, Gabriel Finaldi, revealed details on Thursday of a show that will explore a friendship and collaboration between the Florentine Michelangelo, arguably the greatest and most inf
  
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• Vote For The Best Illusion Of The Year!

  30-06-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Most of us love perceptual illusions, and … from 4 p.m. EDT on June 29 to 4 p.m. EST on June 30, participants around the world are invited to visit illusionoftheyear.com to check out this year’s top 10 finalists and cast their votes.” (includes video)
  
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• Her Ordinary Materials: Fluxus Artist Alison Knowles on Her Carnegie Museum Show

  30-06-2016 16:54 via artnews.com
  On a recent afternoon, Alison Knowles rediscovered two plastic cases in her SoHo studio in Manhattan. Neither case had been opened in decades, so Knowles laid them on a low wood table, and I watched as she quickly unclasped their locks. Read More
  
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• Suspect Arrested In Case Of Stolen Trailer With Matisses And Chagalls Inside

  30-06-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Robert Michael Slayton was taken into custody Thursday on suspicion of grand theft, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. … Detectives found the stolen trailer in Slayton’s backyard… But not all of the stolen art has been recovered.”
  
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• ‘The Man, The Myth, The Yannick’ – Philadelphia Is Marketing Its Maestro As A Tourist Attraction

  30-06-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As you descend the Penn Station escalator to Track 3 for New Jersey Transit, your eyes are ambushed by an ad with a blazing headline … And there he is, Philadelphia Orchestra music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, in a raspberry pink vest, baton in hand, and head somewhere in heaven.”
  
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• Female cartoonist who was jailed for depicting government ministers as goats is finally free after tireless campaigning

  30-06-2016 15:58
  
  Iranian cartoonist, Atena Farghadani, has already posted a new cartoon on Facebook. Matilda Battersby reports on her case, why her art was so controversial, and her next moves
  
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• Athens Has An Impressive New Cultural Center – But For Now, It’s Sitting Empty

  30-06-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Backed by the might of private philanthropy, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre was launched at the weekend to a grand fanfare of concerts and fireworks. Except it hasn’t actually opened, nor has an opening date been announced. Both the national library and opera house have been gifted a further €5m to relocate here, but funding beyond that remains up in the air.”
  
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• Carnegie Hall’s Pugnacious Ex-Chairman Gives $75 Million For World Trade Center Arts Complex

  30-06-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Less than a year since he stepped down as the chairman of Carnegie Hall after clashing with its staff, Ronald O. Perelman, the billionaire businessman, announced Wednesday that he was donating $75 million to revive plans to build a performing arts center at the World Trade Center site.”
  
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• Tate Modernist: How Georgia O'Keeffe shaped feminist style

  30-06-2016 15:02
  
  The American artist was one of the most prominent of her generation. Yet despite her seemingly ‘gendered’ paintings, she resisted sexist stereotypes and expressed this most dominantly through her wardrobeIf the gender bias surrounding modernist artist Georgia O’Keeffe has begun to peter out, thanks to a new exhibition at Tate Modern, then it might seem jarring to look at her clothes. But her sharp, stark, androgynous style was representative of a woman who was ahead of her time
  
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• Violinist Who Stormed Into Woman’s Hotel Room Naked And Tried To Strangle Her Goes Free

  30-06-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Stefan] Arzberger, who had faced a charge of attempted murder, instead pleaded guilty to a less serious charge of reckless assault in the third degree, and was given an unconditional discharge. He faces no jail time or fine.”
  
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• Independent Curators International Honors Marian Goodman With Its 2016 Leo Award

  30-06-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
  Independent Curators International has announced that it will be presenting dealer Marian Goodman with the 2016 Leo Award at its annual benefit auction in New York on October 26. The Leo Award, which recognizes an “extraordinary commitment to artists and … Read More
  
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• New York Times Classical Music Editor Says Lincoln Center Should Combine All Its Summer Festivals Because He Can’t Tell Them Apart

  30-06-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Zachary Woolfe: “Even critics paid to know the ins and outs of all the presentations find themselves confused at what belongs in what container – and how, exactly, audiences are served by the clutter of brands. … I propose that all of these be rolled into a single entity called, say, Lincoln Center Summer.”
  
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• Morning Links: Beijing’s 798 Art District Edition

  30-06-2016 14:43 via artnews.com
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• Andris Nelsons Walks Out On Bayreuth Festival

  30-06-2016 14:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 37-year-old podium star, currently chief conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and soon to take up the baton at Germany’s Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra [as well], had been scheduled to conduct the premiere of a new production of Richard Wagner’s final opera Parsifal this year.”
  
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• Alvin Toffler, Author Of ‘Future Shock’ And ‘The Third Wave’, Dead At 87

  30-06-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Toffler wrote more than a dozen books charting the cultural shift from manufacturing-based economies to those driven by knowledge and data in the 20th century. Working with his wife, he predicted the unfolding of what he coined ‘the Information Age’ and became a guru of sorts to world statesmen.”
  
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• Broadway’s First Live-Stream Hits The Web (Why Did It Take So Long?)

  30-06-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The fairly new online video service BroadwayHD … [on] Thursday night … offers up the first-ever live stream of a Broadway show, the musical revival She Loves Me. And in the process, the start-up hopes to cement its status as the ‘Netflix of Broadway’.” Jonathan Takiff looks at why the Great White Way is so late to the streaming party.
  
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• Shakespeare Was A Social Climber Who Fought For A Coat Of Arms

  30-06-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Considered with previously known records, [the scholar who found the evidence] argues, the documents suggest both how deeply invested Shakespeare was in gaining that recognition – a rarity for a man from the theater.” And some argue that this evidence proves that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon really did write those plays.
  
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• ‘Speak The Speech, I Pray You’ – The Multitudes Of Possibility In Shakespeare’s Great Monologues

  30-06-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael Billington: “I thought I’d look at five key Shakespearean speeches and see how various actors have handled them. I stress that there is no right or wrong – simply a wealth of differences.” (includes video links)
  
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• German collector Thomas Borgmann bolsters Stedelijk Museum's contemporary art collection with 600-strong donation

  30-06-2016 11:34
  
  The German collector Thomas Borgmann has donated more than 600 works by artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Paulina Olowska, Cosima von Bonin and Cerith Wyn Evans to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, a move that augments on an international scale [our] holdings of contemporary art, museum officials say. A selection of the works is due to go on show in an exhibition planned for late 2017.The composition of the gift matches the diversity of the art produced over the last twenty years, encompassin
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.29.16

  30-06-2016 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
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  I get a lot of ineffective pitches from classical music publicists. In fact — sad to say — I think most of the pitches I get from classical music publicists aren’t very strong. … read more
  AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-06-29Progress Report With Guitar Accompaniment
  Not to bore Rifftides readers with internet trivia, but two more days of extended conversations with Apple technicians seem to have led us out of the digital black hole that captured us for
  
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• Dalí foundation has no legal standing to protect artist’s image, Spain’s Supreme Court rules

  30-06-2016 06:51
  
  The Civil Chamber of Spains Supreme Court dismissed an appeal on 21 June from the Gala-Salvador Dal Foundation in its lawsuit against a Barcelona exhibition producer, finding that the foundation does not have the legal standing to protect the artists image, according to Spanish media reports.
  The foundations lawsuit, originally filed in Barcelonas provincial court, stemmed from an exhibition at the Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona of the artists sculptural works from the so-called Clot Collec
  
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• Toronto MoCA Director Abruptly Quits After Only Eight Months On The Job

  30-06-2016 00:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The departure is a shocking turn of events for MOCA, which has undergone wholesale transformations of its mandate, philosophy and even location in the space of less than a year.
  
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• Some Languages Are More Efficient Than Others. English, For Example…

  30-06-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If thought and culture aren’t why some languages pile it on while others take it light, then what is the reason? Part of the answer is unsatisfying but powerful: chance. Time and repetition wear words out, and what wears away is often a nugget of meaning. This happens in some languages more than others.”
  
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