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• Assistant Professor of Dance Studies (Tenure Track)

  07-07-2016 23:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Department of Dance of Barnard College, Columbia University in New York City, invites applications for an outstanding scholar to appoint as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Dance Studies starting July 1, 2017. The ideal candidate will have expertise in theatrical dance history (preferably with specializations in ballet, African-American dance, and/or contemporary choreography), as well as innovative critical and methodological approaches to one or more of the following areas of research
  
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• Chief Advancement Officer

  07-07-2016 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is known nationally and internationally for the quality and scope of its collection, which comprises some 45,000 objects and spans 6,000 years. Founded in 1913 and opened three years later, the CMA is today one of the world’s most distinguished comprehensive art museums and one of the top five in the country. It continues to augment the collection, which is the springboard for a robust program of exhibitions and educational offerings. Complementing the col
  
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• ‘GOD: Antigone’ at Chapter NY

  07-07-2016 23:14 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• A First: Audio Streaming Exceeds Video Streams

  07-07-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Services like Apple Music and Spotify delivered 114 billion streams in the first six months of 2016, with video platforms on 95 billion. Overall, the streaming market increased by 58% year-on-year.”
  
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• Wonders and blunders: what makes a great museum?

  07-07-2016 23:00
  
  What makes a museum building successful? Until the arrival of Frank Gehrys Guggenheim in Bilbao in 1997, this question might have been almost exclusively focused on the best environments in which to view art. But the Guggenheims phenomenal success, which allowed the Basque government to recoup the construction costs within three years, moved the debate on to issues of branding and statement architecture.
  Now the discussion has moved on again. In the public imagination, museums have been transfo
  
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• Tate Liverpool meets ancient Greece for city biennial

  07-07-2016 23:00
  The ninth Liverpool Biennial opens tomorrow (8 July) and transforms the northern city into a site for what the curators call six art episodes, with one at Tate Liverpool tied to the citys collection of Greek antiquities. We imagined ourselves as writers, writing episodes that play out across the city and casting artists into different worlds, says Sally Tallant, the director of the event.
  Forty-two artists have been commissioned to produce new works around themes including ancient Greece, China
  
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• Seeing double at Art Fund shindig

  07-07-2016 23:00
  
  The Duchess of Cambridge's frock and hair do were not the only talking point at the Art Fund's Museum of the Year bash on Wednesday night (6 July). The Turner-prize winning artist Grayson Perry's alter ego, Claire, met her doppelganger, Caroline. The chief executive of Bexley Heritage Trust in south London, shared curatorial small-talk while attracting admiring glances at the pre-awards drinks. Grayson later tweeted a pic of the pair of power dressers. For the record, Claire wore an art-deco in
  
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• Rubens puts Christie's on top during Old Masters week in London

  07-07-2016 23:00
  
  Classic week in Londonthe European art markets last hurrah before the summer breakhas seen some promising results at the evening auctions, with several records set for artists with notable works consigned, though bidding was thin at Sothebys. 
  Sothebys was up first, on 6 July, with a 43-lot sale that carried a modest estimate of 20.4m-31.2m. The evenings hammer total was an underwhelming 13.8m (16.5m), with a sell through rate of 65%. Alex Bell, the international head of the Old
  
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• Putting history into art history: on 18th-century British Art

  07-07-2016 23:00
  
  David Solkins Art in Britain 1660-1815 is a very welcome successor in the Pelican History of Art series to Ellis Waterhouses Painting in Britain 1530-1790. The latter first appeared in 1953, and a fifth edition was published in 1994, with an introduction by the late Michael Kitson.Waterhouses title unambiguously restricted the scope of his volume to painting. Solkins title Art in Britain suggests a range beyond painting and it does have some room for printmaking, but sculpture is not considered
  
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• New galleries at National Museum of Scotland present thousands of exhibits

  07-07-2016 23:00
  
  Ten new galleries open at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh today (8 July), with Dolly the Sheep and an Apple Mark 1 computer from 1976 among the star exhibits. Over 3,000 objects, most of which have not been seen in decades, and 400 new acquisitions go on show in the new suite designed by Hoskins Architects and the exhibitions masterplanner Metaphor. Six of the galleries focus on science and technology; objects on display include the Wylam Dilly locomotive, parts of the La
  
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• Neo Naturists strut their stuff in style at Studio Voltaire

  07-07-2016 23:00
  
  Body paint, Super 8 films, furious smoking and substantial amounts of Becks beer took us all back to the 80s at last nights (7 July) unveiling of Studio Voltaires The Neo Naturist exhibition (until 21 August). It is the first show in a public institution to celebrate the extraordinary contribution of the performance art group, established in 1981 by Christine Binnie, Jennifer Binnie and Wilma Johnson and involving pretty much everyone in the 80s scene: from Boy George to Leigh Bowery, John Mayb
  
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• London dealer Timothy Taylor to launch New York gallery

  07-07-2016 23:00
  
  The established London-based dealer Timothy Taylor is expanding into the US with plans to open a space in New York this autumn. Taylors new gallery, which occupies the ground floor of a Chelsea townhouse, is called 16x34 after the dimensions of the space (measured in feet).
   
  Details of the launch show, which is due to open week beginning 19 September, are yet to be announced, but a statement says that the new gallery will incorporate curated group and solo exhibitions of historical and co
  
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• Jeffrey Deitch makes SoHo comeback

  07-07-2016 23:00
  
  The veteran dealer Jeffrey Deitch will reopen his Lower Manhattan gallery at 18 Wooster Street in SoHo, the space he ran from 1996 to 2010, with a series of performances this autumn by Eddie Peake (8-10 September) inspired by the UK artist's prior piece in the space for Performa 2013. After that, the venue will host a New York iteration of the 2014 Walter Robinson retrospective at Illinois State University, curated by Barry Blinderman (17 September-22 October).
   
  In 2010, De
  
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• Dis-affecting: Mostafa Heddaya on the Ninth Berlin Biennale

  07-07-2016 23:00
  
  It is easy to feel trolled by the Ninth Berlin Biennale. The show, which is organised by the New York-based DIS collective (Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso and David Toro), is a belated conclave for several attitudes that are more affiliated socially than they are intellectually and that began proliferating on either side of the Atlantic at the turn of the decade.After sorting through the artists that the New York collective has assembled into a deadlocked congress of corporate anthropo
  
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• Michael Simpson wins 2016 John Moores painting prize

  07-07-2016 18:28
  
  Wiltshire-based artist wins £25,000 for Leper Squint 19, a depiction of a structure outside a medieval church windowMichael Simpson has been named winner of one of the UK’s most prestigious art prizes, for an austere work that one judge admitted made her feel slightly uncomfortable.Simpson’s minimalist painting won the 2016 John Moores painting prize, a biennial event that has been staged at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery since 1957. Continue reading...
  
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• Here Are the Artists in the 2016 Taipei Biennial

  07-07-2016 17:58 via artnews.com
  The Taipei Fine Arts Museum has announced the artists tapped for their 2016 Taipei Biennial, which takes place from September 10 this year through February 5 of 2017. Now in its tenth edition, the biennial this year takes on themes related to … Read More
  
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• Jeffrey Deitch Reveals More Details of His Return to Wooster Street

  07-07-2016 17:34 via artnews.com
  Back in March, ARTnews reported that Jeffrey Deitch would be moving back into the space at 18 Wooster Street that served as the headquarters for Deitch Projects during its glory days of the 1990s and 2000s. It occupied that space until … Read More
  
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• Suddenly Curator: Brooke Shields on Organizing Her First Exhibition

  07-07-2016 17:33 via artnews.com
  Today marks the opening of “Call of the Wild,” a new group exhibition organized by the New York Academy of Art’s president, David Kratz, in collaboration with the actress (and Academy board member) Brooke Shields, at Art Southampton in Bridgehampton, … Read More
  
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• Barkley Hendricks Wins deCordova Sculpture Park’s Rappaport Prize

  07-07-2016 17:22 via artnews.com
  The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, in Lincoln, Massachusetts, announced today that Barkley Hendricks is the winner of this year’s Rappaport Prize, which is awarded annually to a contemporary artist whose work is tied to New England. Hendricks, who lives … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Tinder for Art Edition

  07-07-2016 15:21 via artnews.com
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• Valeria Napoleone's all-female art collection hits the road

  07-07-2016 15:00
  
  The London-based philanthropist Valeria Napoleone is to show her all-female art collection in public for the first time in the UK regions. The Italian-born collector has exclusively acquired works by women artists for the past two decades in a bid to redress the art worlds persistent gender imbalance. An exhibition of highlights will open at the Graves Gallery in Sheffield in the north of England next week (Going Public: the Napoleone Collection, 15 July-1 October), before travelling to Touchst
  
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• V&A wins Museum of the Year 2016

  07-07-2016 14:54
  
  The famous London-based museum has won the UK's largest art prize, and the biggest museum prize in the world
  
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• Ron Arad's twisting aluminium sculpture unveiled at St Pancras

  07-07-2016 14:36
  
  Giant work is intended to have calming effect on the millions of passengers who pass through London station each yearA giant, twisted, rotating blade of aluminium has been unveiled in London’s St Pancras station to welcome visitors and perhaps even calm them down.The monumental artwork by Ron Arad will hang above the Eurostar platforms until January, part of an annual partnership between the station’s owners HS1 and the Royal Academy of Arts (RA). Continue reading...
  
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• Stanley Kubrick and me: designing the poster for A Clockwork Orange

  07-07-2016 14:10
  
  Philip Castle’s airbrushed art features on album covers for David Bowie and Pulp but his lurid imagery for A Clockwork Orange remains his most infamous work – he remembers his friendship with the directorPhilip Castle shows me into his front room to see the naked woman on her knees next to the family piano. The plaster sculpture is battered and fragile and turning yellow with time, but I would recognise those nipples anywhere. This is one of the nude statues that serve as furniture &
  
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• Samantha Morton interview: How Stanley Kubrick's 2001 provided escapism from a traumatic childhood

  07-07-2016 13:35
  
  The actress has written a short film for new exhibition Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick at Somerset House
  
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• Victoria and Albert Museum wins UK's glittering award

  07-07-2016 11:41
  
  London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) was awarded the Art Fund's 100,000 prize and named the UK's Museum of the Year last night (6 July). The award was presented by the Duchess of Cambridge at a ceremony held in the Natural History Museum's great central hall.
  Martin Roth, the director of the V&A, sounded suprised when the national museum was declared the winnerin the past smaller institutions outside London have typically been chosen. He used the opportunity to announce t
  
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• Danh Vo to create sprawling installation at White Cube in Hong Kong

  07-07-2016 11:09
  
  The Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo is creating a new work for his first show at White Cube in Hong Kong in September. 
  The site-specific installation will be installed in the entire gallery, its corridors and stairwells and will crystallise all of the vocabulary Danh has built up over the past ten years of his practice, says Mathieu Paris, the director at White Cube who is organising the exhibition. The work is likely to be a continuation of Danhs usual practice, Paris adds. The exh
  
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• Archibald finalists 2016: from artists to activists to celebrity chefs – in pictures

  07-07-2016 04:06
  
  Australian’s highest-profile portrait prize has announced its 51 finalists for this year. Since 1921, the Archibald judges have rewarded the year’s best portrait of ‘some man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics’. This year’s batch features a range of entertainers, artists, fashion designers and political voices, ranging from Barry Humphries to Wendy Whiteley to Deng Adut; from Ken Done to Linda Jackson to Lawrence Leung. Here is a selection o
  
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• Vanessa Bell to break free from Bloomsbury group in Dulwich show

  07-07-2016 01:01
  
  The sister of Virginia Woolf and lover of Duncan Grant is long overdue recognition as pioneer of modern art, say curatorsThe first major solo exhibition presenting Vanessa Bell as a pioneering 20th-century artist rather than a player in the tangled affairs of the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists will be shown at the Dulwich picture gallery next year.She might have been better off, even better known, if she hadn't been part of the group Continue reading...
  
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