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• ‘Miranda’ at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles

  06-07-2016 23:27 via artnews.com
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• Art crowd heads to the Hamptons for Art Southampton

  06-07-2016 23:00
  
  Each summer weekend, New York's elite turn the Upper East Side into a ghost town as they migrate east to the vacation towns a few hours into Long Island that comprise the Hamptons. Art Southampton, the premier fair serving that demographic in those months, kicks off its fifth edition with 70 galleries and a number of high-profile attractions, among them an exhibition co-curated by New York Academy of Art (NYAA) president David Kratz and the actress Brooke Shields. The fair, which is in the grou
  
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• Arad's dazzling, dangling blade at St Pancras International

  06-07-2016 23:00
  
  Commuters and holidaymakers anxiously pondering the impact of Brexit as they head to the Eurostar may welcome the distraction of Ron Arads shiny new sculpture for Londons St Pancras International station. The Israeli designer, architect and Royal Academician has dangled an 18m-long rotating aluminium blade from the vast transport hub roof as part of Terrace Wires, the stations public art programme. Thought of Train of Thoughtthe second in a four-year series of commissions by the Royal Acad
  
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• Phillips Hires Former Christie’s, Sotheby’s Staffers to Head Up Contemporary Department

  06-07-2016 22:59 via artnews.com
  Some auction-world news on a hot July afternoon: Phillips has named two new high-ranking members of its 20th-century and contemporary art department.Robert Manly, formerly the deputy chairman of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s, will be the new deputy chairman and senior international specialist … Read More
  
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• The Writing on the Wall: Gary Simmons on His Show at Anthony Meier in San Francisco

  06-07-2016 22:41 via artnews.com
  “I think, as an artist, if I can say I have heroes, he would definitely be one of them,” the artist told me last month, referring to Muhammad Ali, the boxer who died a few days before, at the age of … Read More
  
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• Esra Padgett and Reba Maybury Release ‘Sisters of Pornography,’ a Look at the Camaraderie and Competition Among Adult-Video Performers

  06-07-2016 20:51 via artnews.com
  The London-based writer and lecturer Reba Maybury and the New York-based writer and musician Esra Padgett met last summer in New York through mutual friends. They quickly discovered a shared interest in writing and research pertaining to the adult entertainment … Read More
  
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• Tracy Williams Closes Hester Street Space, ‘Will Move Away From the Gallery Model’

  06-07-2016 19:38 via artnews.com
  Tracy Williams, Ltd., the gallery that over the past 12 years has resided in the West Village, Chelsea, and then the Lower East Side, will close and cease operations after its current show, its eponymous owner announced in a statement. Its current exhibition, “People, Places, Things,” ends July … Read More
  
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• Marc Straus Now Reps Sandro Chia

  06-07-2016 17:56 via artnews.com
  Sandro Chia, the Italian artist who emerged as a young powerhouse in the 1980s New York art scene, only to move to Tuscany to operate a vineyard with his son, is now represented by Marc Straus, the internationally minded gallery … Read More
  
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• Midtown Manhattan Street Corner Named After Bill Cunningham

  06-07-2016 17:09 via artnews.com
  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that the corner of Manhattan’s 57th Street and Fifth Avenue will now be known as Bill Cunningham Corner, in honor of the New York Times fashion photographer who died on June … Read More
  
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• Abbas Kiarostami: film-maker and photographer extraordinaire

  06-07-2016 16:17
  
  The Iranian film-maker Abbas Kiarostami, who died in Paris earlier this week aged 76, was hugely influential in world cinema having won the Palme dOr at Cannes in 1997 for his film A Taste of Cherry. Kiarostami was born in Tehran in 1940, and studied fine art at the citys university. His other noteworthy films include Certified Copy (2010) and Close-Up (1990)but crucially his photography also met with critical acclaim. Earlier this year, the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto presented 50 ful
  
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• Cattelan’s saucy spaghetti car

  06-07-2016 16:10
  
  The newest installment of the BMW Art Car series, created by the maverick artist Maurizio Cattelan, made its debut at Les Rencontres dArles photography festival in Arles, France, which opened earlier this week (until 25 September). The car was created in collaboration with Cattelan's Toilet Paper magazine and his collaborator Pierpaolo Ferrari. Dubbed the "Spaghetti Car," the BMW i3 has been slathered with a full-body decal depicting a photograph of spaghetti in Toilet Paper's signature de
  
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• Morning Links: Mariah Carey and David Geffen Edition

  06-07-2016 16:05 via artnews.com
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• Antony Gormley: Humans are building 'a vast termites' nest' of greed

  06-07-2016 15:52
  
  Sculptor explains how new show, featuring 600 cast-iron human skyscrapers, expresses his anger about London’s testosterone-fuelled corporate expansionAntony Gormley says his first White Cube exhibition in four years, which opens in September, is driven by “more of a sense of urgency” than any other show he has done. From the warming of our climate and the acidification of our seas to cities dominated by skyscrapers – “nothing more than expressions of virile corporat
  
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• Ptolemaic galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art get a facelift

  06-07-2016 15:18
  
  The spotlight shines on Ancient Egypt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York with the launch of two new galleries of Ptolemaic works (from 1 July). Galleries 133 and 134, which are located in the Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art in the Sackler wing of the museum, have been revamped; both galleries opened in 1976.
   
  As part of the renovation, a drop ceiling was removed that added around six feet of height to the space. New display cases have been unveiled, along with&nb
  
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• William Dobson's haunting self-portrait must be saved for the nation

  06-07-2016 14:23
  
  An introspective masterpiece by a rare British painter of the English civil war era, this work deserves a public home where it can speak to our own troubled timesThe top 10 self-portraits in artHis big dark eyes dream beneath a mane of shaggy brown hair, his ruddy face is moustachioed, and a white cravat is wrapped around his throat under a monastic-looking coat. The man in this painting is a romantic. He looks a bit like the 19th-century painter Gustave Courbet. Indeed, his intensity is not a m
  
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• Georgia O'Keeffe, Tate Modern, review: 'an extraordinary show, long overdue'

  06-07-2016 11:38
  
  The major retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe's work that opened this week at Tate Modern in London is a rare opportunity for British viewers to engage with this iconic American artist. In the same season as the opening of the Tate extension Switch House, this exhibition illuminates the gallery's determination to provide new readings of old favourites. Curator Tanya Barson has spun a new tale of O'Keeffe, showing her as a progressive artist who was influenced by photography and not "merely an obse
  
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• How the National Geographic 2016 travel photo contest winners were taken

  06-07-2016 11:37
  
  Nearly all the winning photographs required unsociable hours and a lot of patience
  
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• Executive Director, Greenville Symphony Orchestra

  06-07-2016 06:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Greenville Symphony Orchestra seeks an Executive Director (ED) to work in partnership with a volunteer Board of Directors and Music Director Edvard Tchivzhel to develop and implement the strategic plan that both sustains the current level of operations and drives the organization forward, following its long-term strategic plan.
  Reporting to the President of the Board, the ED serves as the COO and is responsible for financial planning and human resources; marketing and fundraising activities;
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.05.16

  06-07-2016 06:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Week in Audience: Boston Ballet’s Dive Into Data
  This week: Boston Ballet has done some serious data diving to produce a successful season at the box office … NPR is finding gold in podcasts … When news becomes unmoored from its sources, do we care? … A “young” (didn’t know it was a noun, eh?) declares what will get “youngs” to the arts … Will the machines eventually determine our tastes in art? … read more
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• This Week in Audience: Boston Ballet’s Dive Into Data

  06-07-2016 01:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week: Boston Ballet has done some serious data diving to produce a successful season at the box office… NPR is finding gold in podcasts… When news becomes unmoored from its sources, do we care?… A “young” (didn’t know it was a noun, eh?) declares what will get “youngs” to the arts… Will the machines eventually determine our tastes in art?
  
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• What’s The Point Of Orchestra Touring, Asks British Council Exec

  06-07-2016 01:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Who now wants a touring orchestra that’s just going to turn up, play, and go? Not many! So, if you are running an orchestra with shrinking public subsidy and are looking to tour, look around you, take account of the best practice from across the world including the UK, and mark your score with an accelerando.”
  
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• Film Links Dance To Architecture

  06-07-2016 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Humans interact with space; shapes define space; humans then interact differently with the space after new objects have entered the picture. In the case of the dancer in the video, her movements are tracked by a machine that then bends an industrial CNC pipe to mimic her. The objects are then placed around the room, thereby affecting her future choreography.”
  
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