Arts news

• Sometimes a flower is just a flower: Georgia O’Keeffe at Tate Modern

  03-07-2016 23:00
  One hundred years after the American painter Georgia OKeeffe (1887-1986) made her professional debut at the 291 gallery in New York, Tate Modern opens the first UK survey of her work since 1993. The show, which is almost entirely drawn from US collections, speaks to a startling fact: none of OKeeffes works are held by any public UK museum.
  With around 100 pieces by the artist, the survey opens with abstract charcoals, including those shown at her first 291 exhibition, and moves through the skysc
  
  Read more

• MoMA breathes life into Bruce Conner’s gas chamber sculpture

  03-07-2016 23:00
  
  Conservators at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York have done the seemingly impossible: they have brought Bruce Conners CHILD (1959-60), a haunting sculpture of a gas chamber execution, back from the dead ahead of a major travelling exhibition.
  Conner (1933-2008) made the work, a black-wax figure of a boyits head thrown back and mouth open as if screamingcovered with nylon webbing and strapped to a high-chair, in response to the planned execution of career criminal Caryl Chessman. In 194
  
  Read more

• Garage opens Russia’s most extensive programme for disabled visitors

  03-07-2016 23:00
  
  A new initiative at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow aims to make the institution more hospitable to disabled visitors (Co-thinkers, 7 June-9 September). The programme is uncharted territory for Russia, where disabled people have historically lacked equal access to cultural institutions and disabled children have been shut out of mainstream schools, according to Human Rights Watch.
  Despite new laws that went into effect in January banning discrimination against the disabled, we h
  
  Read more

• Pair of paintings from Dutch golden age reunited after 351 years

  03-07-2016 18:41
  
  Gerrit Dou’s works showing women at keyboards go on show together at Dulwich Picture GalleryTwo young women glance up from their keyboards again this week, re-united at the Dulwich Picture Gallery after 351 years apart.Both paintings are the work of the Dutch 17th-century painter Gerrit Dou, regarded as one of the marvels of his age. He was a pupil of Rembrandt’s, and considered by some of their contemporaries as the greater artist. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Why Is Spring Happening Earlier In Cities?

  03-07-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  City lights. And that’s bad. “When plants bloom earlier than usual, it can spell disaster for ecological systems—in which timing is key.”
  
  Read more

• The MySpace Literary Movement That Almost Changed The World

  03-07-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Brutalism rejected what its founders considered the homogenization of mainstream publishing, calling for ‘raw,’ ‘honest’ fiction and declaring that‘[The] only maxim we adhere to is an old punk belief, which we have bastardized for our own means: Here’s a laptop. Here’s a spell-check. Now write a novel.'”
  
  Read more

• Michael Cimino Wrote And Directed ‘The Deer Hunter’ Before Coming Up Short Against The Old West

  03-07-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Heaven’s Gate, a frontier epic about the settlement of the West that was shot mainly at a studio-constructed town in Glacier National Park in Montana, outraged executives at UA. Cimino’s insistence on authenticity, in the end, deflated the production and sank the troubled studio. In addition, its running time of 219 minutes exasperated theater owners.”
  
  Read more

• How Did The First Live Stream Of A Broadway Musical Go?

  03-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You do lose some of the vibrancy, some of the majesty and all of the camaraderie of being there in the theater, which is true whether it’s a live or a taped broadcast.”
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• At Least This One Texas Library Job Was Saved After A Public Outcry

  03-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As Mayor Ron White tells it, according to the Associated Press, the cat was targeted in retaliation when a city worker was denied permission to bring a puppy to city hall.”
  
  Read more

• If Apple Buys Tidal, What Happens To The Streaming Industry?

  03-07-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That is a short-term solution, a bit like hailing a taxi for half a mile at the start of a marathon.”
  
  Read more

• Did Gay Talese Get Completely Played By A Source?

  03-07-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Morgan Entrekin, the chief executive and publisher of Grove Atlantic, said the company would move forward with the publication and the promotion of the book, and might add a new author’s note.”
  
  Read more

• The U.S. Painters With Secret (More Like Ignored) Lives

  03-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When women did well in contests, they went to pick up their medals and were told they must be mistaken – the winner couldn’t possibly be female. On the rare occasion that women artists were exhibited alongside their male counterparts, critics tended to concede that they were shocked by the quality.”
  
  Read more

• Royal sum of £2.7m raised so far for Elizabeth I portrait

  03-07-2016 15:50
  
  The public appeal to save the famed Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I is gathering momentum. The Art Fund charity is driving the campaign to raise 10m so that the historic painting, which is being sold by the descendants of Sir Francis Drake, can be saved for the nation. The #SaveArmada appeal was launched on 23 May with 1.4m in contributions from Art Fund and Royal Museums Greenwich, towards the 10m needed. The appeal total now stands at 2.7m with further approaches to major funders underway, say
  
  Read more

• The Secret Lives Of Those Who Live In New York’s Libraries

  03-07-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While the closed stack is currently sealed off to daylight to protect its rare contents, when the Thornberrys lived in the library, it was a light-filled and vibrant space. But the family was by no means confined to their apartment. They also enjoyed a penthouse-level garden and after hours, access to the library’s stacks and large reference rooms too.”
  
  Read more

• Why Does The Movies’ Gender Pay Gap Exist?

  03-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Unclear. “Statistics for 2015 released by the Motion Picture Association of America show that movie-going, as a whole, breaks down pretty much exactly 50/50 across the genders. If anything, there’s a slight skew towards women.”
  
  Read more

• Oscars, Or At Least The Academy, Not #SoWhite Anymore

  03-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So what’s next? “In these socially conscious times, Hollywood awards have become a tool for change despite, or perhaps as a reaction to, their red-carpet frivolity.”
  
  Read more

• Writing A Novel Is A Painful Process With Very Little Chance Of Success, So Why Do It?

  03-07-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I once read another writer, I forget whom, saying that their writing was a sort of wolf call to their tribe, and I think there’s some truth in that; I write for my tribe, an imaginary group of readers who are a bit like me on the inside.”
  
  Read more

• Getting To The San Francisco Ballet From A ‘Paycheck To Paycheck’ Kentucky Family

  03-07-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One month into the program, he was in class, practicing jumps. He went up for a jump, and the whole room — even people in the room across the hall — heard a sound like a gunshot.”
  
  Read more

• When The Rehearsal Room Turns Racist

  03-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The person’s sanity most important is yours. In an ideal world it would be fantastic if we could all be great friends and there was never tension in the rehearsal room. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.”
  
  Read more

• London’s National Gallery Hopes Nothing Will Change With Brexit

  03-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The gallery has been here for nearly 200 years and it has survived many seismic changes including world wars and other skirmishes – so we are going to continue business as usual, shining as a beacon of excellence and a place of contemplation.”
  
  Read more

• Downtown Los Angeles To Get Yet Another Large Art Space

  03-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The museum … will have 40,000 square feet of exhibition space on the ground floors of the 1903 Hellman Building and the 1905 Farmers and Merchants Building. It will also have a rooftop sculpture garden and amphitheater.”
  
  Read more

• The UK Saw 1500 ‘Ghost Tommies’ Commemorating The Battle Of The Somme

  03-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Each carried a card with the name of the soldier they represented and his age – if known – when he died.”
  
  Read more

• Telling African American Stories Through Ballet

  03-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Where is the ballet about the lives of Martin Luther King or Malcolm X?’ he asks.”
  
  Read more

• A Family (Art) Feud Worth $3 Billion

  03-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The saga involves a collection of treasures that have largely been hidden for the past two decades, a secret seller using an offshore company to put up paintings for auction and a fight that boils down to one nonexistent will and one cryptic one.”
  
  Read more

• David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life review – are you sitting colourfully?

  03-07-2016 09:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  Though David Hockney’s mastery and energy are never in doubt, his show of portraits sees likeness and personality often sacrificed to surface detailDavid Hockney is prolific to the point of loquacity and vigorously experimental. At 79, his work ethic remains stupendous. In the past decade there have been giant watercolours, outsize landscapes, digital portraits and pictures made using lasers, photocopiers, collages and iPads. And now there are portraits once more &nda
  
  Read more

• Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky – review

  03-07-2016 08:00
  
  This well-bound romp through the back pages of civilisation is flawed but fascinatingMark Kurlansky came to prominence with two books that took commonplace subjects and placed them at the centre of the universe. Cod, as one might have hoped for, was a biography of a fish. Kurlansky argued convincingly that cod had enjoyed a crucial role in trade and conflict, and he followed it up with a biography named Salt, which took a similar line and was no less entertaining. We are, ala
  
  Read more

• The digital age reshapes our notion of photography. Not everyone is happy ...

  03-07-2016 01:05
  
  Instagram, selfies, citizen reportage – technology has produced a new kind of work that is finding its way into galleries“Photography is demonstrably the most contemporary of art forms; it is the most vital, effective and universal means of communication of facts and ideas between peoples and nations.” So said Cornell Capa, the founder of the International Centre of Photography, which opened in New York in 1974 with a remit to preserve the archives and exhibit the work of what
  
  Read more

• Elie Wiesel, Survivor Of Auschwitz And Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Has Died At 87

  03-07-2016 00:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By the sheer force of his personality and his gift for the haunting phrase, Mr. Wiesel, who had been liberated from Buchenwald as a 16-year-old with the indelible tattoo A-7713 on his arm, gradually exhumed the Holocaust from the burial ground of the history books.”
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUKnews on Twitter!