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• Metro Pictures Now Represents Oliver Laric

  11-07-2016 23:09 via artnews.com
  New York’s Metro Pictures gallery announced today that it now represents Oliver Laric, the Berlin-based artist known for his work about reproductions and digital technology. Laric, who is also represented by Berlin’s Tanya Leighton and London’s Seventeen gallery, now joins … Read More
  
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• There Is Badness In The World. We’re Closer To It Than Ever. How To Deal With It?

  11-07-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Social media makes the joy, suffering and anger of millions of people feel like our own. That is empowering and overwhelming. Social media also gives us the illusion that we can be effective merely by talking or feeling. The technology of this new form of mass communion has probably developed faster than our emotional capacity to process it. We do, however, have a tried and true method of communion with other people, the past and things that are foreign or unsettling to us: These include
  
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• Takahiro Iwasaki Will Represent Japan at Venice Biennale in 2017

  11-07-2016 23:01 via artnews.com
  Artist Takahiro Iwasaki has been selected to represent Japan at the 2017 Venice Biennale, according to the Japan Foundation. Iwasaki, who is based in Hiroshima, will be showing a work called Upside-Down Forest, which addresses the nature of Venice as a city built … Read More
  
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• Wake-up call: climate change is serious threat to our heritage

  11-07-2016 23:00
  
  On 26 May, US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed to focus on real environmental challenges, not phony ones, cancel the USs participation in the global 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and stop all payments of US tax dollars to UN global warming programmes. That same day, Unesco released its 100-page World Heritage and Tourism report, which showed how climate change is quickly becoming one of the most significant risks for natural and cultural heritage sites. As if on cue,
  
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• Polyvalent plates

  11-07-2016 23:00
  
  This book is dedicated to maiolica, the tin-glazed earthenware of Renaissance Italy. Ceramic glaze whitened with tin-oxide made the perfect ground for painted decoration, and the period 1480-1550 saw an explosion of every kind of imagery as ceramic painters responded to the new technologies of printing and printmaking. Franoise Barbe concentrates on the 16th century as a golden age and on istoriato: narrative-painted ware which only ever represented a tiny proportion of the maiolica produced in
  
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• Met Breuer reveals the unknown Diane Arbus

  11-07-2016 23:00
  Diane Arbus saw the streets of New York City as a place full of secrets waiting to be fathomed, says Jeff Rosenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art curator of a show of early work by the photographer that opens today (12 July) at the Met Breuer. The pictures date from between 1956, the year Arbus began numbering her rolls of film, and 1962, when she took up her signature, square-format Rolleiflex camera. About two-thirds of the works have never before been shown or published, including Boy Stepp
  
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• Major Danish museum returns looted antiquities to Italy

  11-07-2016 23:00
  
  The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, which holds the largest collection of antiquities in northern Europe, has agreed to restitute illegally excavated artefacts to the Italian government. In an historic agreement under negotiation since 2012, the Danish museum will return the eighth-century BC bronze chariot, shield, weapons, incense burners and tableware from the tomb of an Etruscan prince, among other archaeological objects, to Italy between December and the end of 2017. The pieces,
  
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• From marriage bed to painted pottery: on Geothe's collection

  11-07-2016 23:00
  
  Visitors to Goethes house on the Frauenplan at Weimar pass through the Maiolica Room, where samples from his collection of Italian tin-glazed pottery are displayed. The Klassik Stiftung Weimar, which conserves and studies the heritage of Weimar Classicism, has now sponsored a beautifully produced new catalogue of Goethes maiolica. Since it contains large coloured illustrations of every one of the 105 items, along with detailed descriptions and accounts of their provenance, Italienische Majolika
  
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• A bridge between New York and Paris: on Stuart Davis at the Whitney Museum

  11-07-2016 23:00
  
  Stuart Davis (1892-1964) is known, perhaps more than any other American artist, for his ability to combine the formal inventions of the avant-garde with the political spirit of the American scene. The drama of his paintings (which are the subject of a survey titled In Full Swing at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York) were deepened by the early Modernist debates of out of which they were borndebates in which abstraction and realism came to loggerheads at a defining moment for America
  
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• Some Countries Support Artists Directly (But There Are Tradeoffs)

  11-07-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Whether or not artistry is a formal profession in the eyes of the state, and what states do or don’t do to support that profession, reflects different agendas within different political systems. While the American model mostly distributes public funding for the arts indirectly, via tax deductions for nonprofit organizations and their donors, many other governments provide substantial direct support to individual artists.”
  
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• Midgette: This Performance At Wolf Trap Should Have Easily Sold Out. Why Didn’t It?

  11-07-2016 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The people who were there, and there were quite a lot of them, screamed and yelled with whole-hearted appreciation. And there were plenty of younger faces among the picnickers on the lawn. But it was far from a capacity crowd. Fewer people than in the past view the chance to hear a star soloist, rising conductor and orchestra in popular repertoire on a warm summer night as a can’t-miss event.”
  
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• Lucas Samaras at Craig F. Starr, New York

  11-07-2016 20:25 via artnews.com
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• Scientists Fed 1,700 Novels Into Their Computers And Boiled Down Our Literature Into Six Basic Story Arcs

  11-07-2016 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Their method is straightforward. The idea behind sentiment analysis is that words have a positive or negative emotional impact. So words can be a measure of the emotional valence of the text and how it changes from moment to moment. So measuring the shape of the story arc is simply a question of assessing the emotional polarity of a story at each instant and how it changes.”
  
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• London’s Seventeen Gallery Is Opening a Space on New York’s Bowery

  11-07-2016 19:40 via artnews.com
  Bowery Boogie reports today that London’s Seventeen Gallery is set to open a New York location in the former headquarters of furniture seller the Chair Factory Ltd., located at 214 Bowery on New York’s Lower East Side, near the International Center of … Read More
  
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• After Period of Tumult, de Appel Names Niels Van Tomme Director

  11-07-2016 19:36 via artnews.com
  Following many months of intrigue at the de Appel Arts Center in Amsterdam having to do with the firing of its director, Lorenzo Benedetti, last year, Niels Van Tomme has been named the institution’s new director. The hire was made by an entirely new board … Read More
  
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• Where Gods Take on Giants: ‘Pergamon’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  11-07-2016 19:02 via artnews.com
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• Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli accused of 'disturbing public peace' with nude artworks

  11-07-2016 18:26
  
  The world-renowned artist was due to give a talk in London when he was confonted by border officials and banned from leaving the country
  
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• The Trump Hut: hair-based protest hopes to wig out Republican convention

  11-07-2016 18:20
  
  Inspired by the situationists, two ad men and a Mexican artist collaborated to make a luxury hut inspired by an extraordinary follicular arrangementIn May, the ad men and artists Douglas Cameron and Tommy Noonan brainstormed ways to protest the rise of Donald Trump. They wanted to build something memorable, something that would stand out in a national landscape that’s saturated with anti-Trump protests. To comment on the growing wealth inequality that they believe will flourish even more s
  
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• Do androids dream of aesthetic creep? Hail the robots of post-human art

  11-07-2016 18:18
  
  Goshka Macuga’s uncanny android is just the latest in an army of artist’s robots that began invading 100 years ago with one question: what is it to be human?The androids have arrived, at least a century after modern art prophesied them. Artificial humans are advancing from the screens and pages of science fiction into our art galleries to look their flesh and blood cousins eerily in the eye. Artist Goshka Macuga, shortlisted for the Turner prize in 2008, has created a talking android
  
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• Hirshhorn Museum Looking for Female Guitar Players for Ragnar Kjartansson Performance

  11-07-2016 18:05 via artnews.com
  In preparation for its upcoming Ragnar Kjartansson solo exhibition, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington, D.C. is holding a casting call for female musicians to perform as part of a performance piece. The auditions, which take place July … Read More
  
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• Black Bodies, White Cubes: The Problem With Contemporary Art’s Appropriation of Race

  11-07-2016 17:30 via artnews.com
  In December 2015, while at Art Basel Miami Beach, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed when I found a video of a large inflated object. The object was a body, lying face down, on its stomach. It was a … Read More
  
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• New triennial in Aarhus to include outdoor art along four kilometre-coastline

  11-07-2016 17:18
  
  A new triennial is due to open next year in Aarhus, eastern Denmark, which will encompass four kilometres of coastline surrounding the city. The inaugural ARoS triennial, organised by the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, will explore how man has depicted and altered nature according to his view of the world, a press statement says. The triennial is a key feature of Aaarhuss year-long run as European Capital of Culture in 2017. The triennial, entitled The Garden: End of Times, Beginning of Time
  
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• Two Artists Begin Building Trump’s Wall, And Sending Mexico The Bill

  11-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Covered on one side by a large campaign ad for Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, and studded with wilting fruit, flowers, cleaning items and hardware, their wall was meant to symbolize, Mr. Gleeson said, the economic effects that curtailing immigration and closing borders would have on agriculture, industry and domestic life.”
  
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• The Booming Business Of Making Movies (On The Cheap) In Cape Town

  11-07-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is the first custom-built, state-of-the-art film studio in sub-Saharan Africa, and it’s rapidly becoming one of Hollywood’s favourite places to shoot. It touts itself as ‘the most successful film studio in the developing world’ – a grand claim that might even be true.”
  
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• Alison Bernstein Gave Tens Of Millions Of Dollars To Cultural Initiatives At The Ford Foundation

  11-07-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “She was a lively and curious and wonderfully imaginative person, and this all came across in 10 minutes.”
  
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• A Fiery Consideration Of Alexei Ratmansky’s Choices For Misty Copeland

  11-07-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Watching Copeland dance ‘Firebird’ at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, we saw a wonderful ballerina come to terms with a not-so-wonderful role. To begin with, you, Mr. Ratmansky, assigned to other American Ballet Theatre dancers much of the music that Igor Stravinsky composed for her character.”
  
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• The New Face(s) Of Second City

  11-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re pretty much cradle to grave these days.”
  
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• Who Gets Garcia Lorca’s Papers?

  11-07-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The legacy of Federico García Lorca’s hostilities with government lives on these days through his family, whose members are tangling with officials over control of a new $25 million center built to honor García Lorca, the playwright and poet who was executed by firing squad during the Spanish Civil War.”
  
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• Sotheby’s Names Helena Newman Chairman Europe

  11-07-2016 15:20 via artnews.com
  Helena Newman, the co-head worldwide of Impressionist and modern art at Sotheby’s, has been named chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, the auction house announced in a statement. A 28-year veteran of the house, Newman will continue to head up the Imp-mod … Read More
  
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• When Your Drawing Class Model Is A Sex Worker

  11-07-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Squeezing in between a young female art student and a hairy guy, I picked up my pencil and waited for the sex to begin. It didn’t.”
  
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• Steinway Has Huge Ambitions For Its Grand Pianos – In China

  11-07-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘I wanted to buy something special,’ Mr. Wang said. ‘It’s just like a Rolls-Royce.'”
  
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• Morning Links: Black Lives Matter Edition

  11-07-2016 14:50 via artnews.com
  BLACK LIVES MATTERMoMA’s website explores how Black Lives Matter in its collection. [MoMA]Photos by the artist Nick DeMarco capturing the Stop Police Terror rally last Thursday in New York. [Sex Magazine]LEGAL ISSUESA lawsuit has been filed against the artist Peter Doig … Read More
  
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• Carrying A Lot More Than Her Crown As The Newest Disney Princess

  11-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Few matters in entertainment are as fraught as the Disney princesses, a dozen or so characters led by Cinderella and Snow White that mint money for the Walt Disney Company but also are cultural lightning rods. People who love the princesses (they’re pretty and live happily ever after!) and those who despise them (they promote negative female stereotypes and unrealistic body images!) square off endlessly.”
  
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• The Small-Picture Problems That Add Up To Existential Crises

  11-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Cheryl Strayed is really interesting. She’s very sure of herself, confident, a very healthy enlightened person. I am much more of a wreck that she is. I think both have a lot of wisdom to share, but her style is different because I think she’s had her shit together for much longer than I have, frankly. For example, I wouldn’t dream of camping alone under any circumstances. I’m a chickenshit. Our biology is different. I would not walk that far. Without Cheetos.&rdqu
  
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• What’s It Like To Take Over From Theatre’s Current Super Famous Guy? Ask #Javilton

  11-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Already, he has a reputation and a fan base. He’s been described as the sexy Hamilton because of the swagger he brings to the role, and Mr. Miranda bestowed on him a hashtag-nickname, Javilton, that has stuck.”
  
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• So, Is Brexit – Is Almost Everything Going On Right Now – A Symptom Of Future Shock?

  11-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In many large ways, it’s almost as if we have collectively stopped planning for the future. Instead, we all just sort of bounce along in the present, caught in the headlights of a tomorrow pushed by a few large corporations and shaped by the inescapable logic of hyper-efficiency — a future heading straight for us.”
  
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• Liverpool Biennial: Isil iconoclasm, a Scouse musical and a laser show in a reservoir

  11-07-2016 13:49
  
  The ninth edition of the Liverpool Biennial (until 16 October) invites international artists to examine the citys past, present and future. While the stories they spin are not all to be trusted, the works that linger in the mind are those that engage closest with the local context. In some cases, fiction proves more seductive than reality. The Iranian brothers Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh and their collaborator Hesam Rahmanian, whose works run through three of the main exhibitions, overlay s
  
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• The Perennial Question: Why Can’t You Listen To The Radio On Your Smartphone?

  11-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Apple remains the biggest holdout. The company did not respond to multiple requests for comment, but critics say it has little incentive to do anything that might undermine Beats One, Apple Music, and other streaming services.”
  
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• The Wide World Of Difference In The Words “British Art Fair”

  11-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By Sunday, the third and final day of Shepton Mallet, exhibitors outnumbered visitors and mutterings of “it’s been terrible” and complaints about the poor sales could be overheard above the clutter of unsold porcelain and glass ornaments.”
  
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• The Playwright Wrote A Play About Her Mother, Peter Pan

  11-07-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The first year we did it, the flying wasn’t very good. You passed across the stage a couple feet above the floor, and it was very painful. The harness cut into your legs, and they padded us with Kotex to try and make it feel better.”
  
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• Leading Iranian artist accused by authorities of disturbing the peace

  11-07-2016 12:11
  
  The leading Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli says that he is facing criminal charges in Tehran after he was barred from travelling to London last weekend (2 July). Tanavolis passport was confiscated by border officials at Tehrans Imam Khomeini International Airport; he was subsequently unable to attend a talk on 3 July at the British Museum.Tanavoli, who divides his time between Tehran and Vancouver, says in an email: Yes, I am accused by the police. The accusations are that my art is based on 's
  
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• TAN staffer turns blue in Hull for Tunick

  11-07-2016 11:42
  
  The northern UK city of Hull was a sea of blue this weekend (9/10 July) as more than 3,200 people braved the North Sea chill in their birthday suits for Spencer Tunicks latest mass nude art installation. The participants, painted in four fetching shades of blue, gathered at dawn across landmark sites such as the Scale Lane swing bridge and Queen's Gardens. Tunicks Sea of Hull photographs, which draw on Hulls maritime heritage, will be shown next year at Ferens Art Gallery during the U
  
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• Flashes of genius: the wild world of the naked Neo Naturists

  11-07-2016 08:15
  
  Dressed only in swirling body paint, they stormed through 1980s London – leaving a trail of chaos and confusion. Three decades on, they bare all about squats, Sellotape dresses and apple-bobbing in blood“We were into being provocative and causing confusion,” says Christine Binnie of the Neo Naturists. “There was never any titillation in our being naked. It was more, ‘Here we are nude with our big bosoms and tummies. Take it or leave it.’”The Neo Naturist
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 07.10.16

  11-07-2016 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alien nation
  London’s my city. Always has been and (I hope) always will. I’m a grandchild of immigrants, and grandchild too of a rootless, vicious century which has played havoc with the idea of home. Home … read more
  AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2016-07-10Passings: Friedman, Jones, Thompson
  The generations move on. It’s a sad part of an observer’s task to acknowledge the deaths of musicians who made important contributions. Pianist Don Friedman died of panc
  
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