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• The 'freaks' of old New York: Diane Arbus exhibition opens at the Met

  12-07-2016 23:04
  
  Her black and white photographs document New York lives in the 50s and 60s: Coney Island, glamourous high society and the dingy back streets
  
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• Fiac expands with a move into the historic Petit Palais opposite

  12-07-2016 23:00
  The 43rd edition of the Fiac fair (Foire Internationale dArt Contemporain), which launches this autumn (20-23 October) at the Grand Palais in Paris, is expanding into two new spaces. A new section of the fair, called On Site, will take place in the Petit Palais opposite which, like the Grand Palais, was built for the Exposition Universelle (Worlds Fair) in 1900.On Site will assemble around 20 works that will [fill] the spaces of the Galerie Sud, the Pavillon Sud and the Jardin du Petit Palais,
  
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• Dealers cash in during summer months with lucrative group shows

  12-07-2016 23:00
  Although sometimes thought of as the gallery equivalent of a gone fishin sign for an art world that largely shuts down after Art Basel in June, summer group shows, ranging from the serious to the irreverent, can prove lucrative for some galleries during the usually dry months of July and August. London's Ibid gallery may have playfully called its summer show Holiday (until 6 August), but it has works by major names, such as Francis Picabia, Alberto Giacometti, David Hockney, Allen Jones, Y
  
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• Museum of Ice Cream in New York Will Include Work by Richard Phillips, Tom Sanford, Nir Hod, More

  12-07-2016 21:44 via artnews.com
  Well! Just when you thought that things could not get any more out of control in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District news arrives that a Museum of Ice Cream is going to open in the area on July 29. It will be … Read More
  
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• Museum of Ice Cream in New York Will Include Work by Quite a Few Artists

  12-07-2016 21:44 via artnews.com
  Well! Just when you thought that things could not get any more out of control in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District news arrives that a Museum of Ice Cream is going to open in the area on July 29. It will be … Read More
  
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• Nick Relph at Herald St, London

  12-07-2016 21:42 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Socrates Sculpture Park Announces 2016 Emerging Artist Fellowship Winners

  12-07-2016 21:21 via artnews.com
  Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York, has announced the recipients of its 2016 Emerging Artist Fellowship. The selected artists, who all receive institutional support and funding, began work last month on various projects in the park, and will continue … Read More
  
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• Spencer Tunick artwork put Hull on the world stage | Letters

  12-07-2016 20:11
  
  Congratulations to all those who made Spencer Tunick’s Sea of Hull such a success (Report, 9 July, theguardian.com). The streets looked stunning in the early hours of Saturday and it was wonderful to see spectacular images across the world’s media. But it was the atmosphere – filled with warmth, friendliness, humour and positivity – that made it a huge privilege to be involved. To be part of a diverse group of thousands, gathering together to cooperate in the production o
  
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• Planned Parenthood Benefit Sexy Beast Announces 2016 Artist Lineup

  12-07-2016 20:00 via artnews.com
  The lineup for the second edition of Sexy Beast, the gala and art auction that benefits Planned Parenthood, was announced today. Among those participating are Barbra Kruger, Marilyn Minter, and Ed Ruscha, among over 40 others. In addition, the benefit … Read More
  
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• Works From the Late Olga Hirshhorn’s Collection Will Go to Artis—Naples, Cultural Organization in Naples, Florida

  12-07-2016 19:32 via artnews.com
  The estate of art collector Olga Hirshhorn (the widow of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who founded the eponymous museum in Washington, D.C.) announced today that it will give 400 works from her personal collection to Artis—Naples, a Naples, Florida cultural organization. The collection, which had … Read More
  
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• Works From the Late Olga Hirshhorn’s Collection Will Go to Artis, Cultural Organization in Naples, Florida

  12-07-2016 19:32 via artnews.com
  The estate of art collector Olga Hirshhorn, the widow Joseph H. Hirshhorn, who founded the eponymous museum in Washington, D.C., announced today that it will give 400 works from her personal collection to Artis, a Naples, Florida cultural organization. The collection, which had been … Read More
  
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• Walker Art Center Receives $1 M. Grant From Mellon Foundation

  12-07-2016 18:58 via artnews.com
  The Walker Art Center announced today that it has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The funds from the grant, which recognizes the Walker’s interdisciplinary programming, will go toward various projects at the museum, … Read More
  
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• Medieval doodles in the margins? Blame the children

  12-07-2016 18:40
  
  Surreal creatures in book by 14th-century Neapolitan monk added by two children a few centuries later, says academicThe drawings of strange animals in the margin of a precious medieval manuscript have been revealed as doodles by children, presumably bored by the dense Latin text. The book, now in the library of the University of Pennsylvania, was written by a 14th-century Franciscan monk in Naples, and includes astronomy and astrology tables, sermons, columns of biblical dates and tables for wor
  
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• Les Rencontres d'Arles 2016 review – twin towers and sub-Saharan slums

  12-07-2016 16:35
  
  Arles, France
  Festival director Sam Stourdze gathers a powerful response to the 9/11 attacks, while African photographic talent is showcased – and rightfully awardedThe Arles photography festival has been in transition for several years, looking forward to the medium’s exciting but uncertain post-digital future while also looking back at its past. This year, there are homages to veterans such as Don McCullin, Sid Grossman and Peter Mitchell, but much more work that questions the very
  
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• ‘Offshore Art’ Emerges As Possibly Legit Historical Movement (and Robert Wilson Gets a Little Weird) at the Parrish Art Museum Gala

  12-07-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  The Parrish Art Museum MidSummer Party in the Hamptons last weekend had a decidedly marina-heavy theme. Part of the celebration was “Radical Seafaring,” a group show of works all related to the water in one way or another.“Ahoy, mateys!” Terrie … Read More
  
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• The whole truth about Van Gogh's ear, and why his 'mad genius' is a myth

  12-07-2016 15:03
  
  A new exhibition claims Vincent Van Gogh’s mental illness hampered his work, rather than drove his singular vision – and presents fresh medical evidence about his notorious self-mutilationMadness terrified Vincent van Gogh, yet he also wondered if it was inseparable from artistic genius. In letters to his brother Theo that prove him one of the great writers as well as artists of the 19th century, he broods more than once on an 1872 painting by Emile Wauters called The Madness of Hugo
  
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• Wanted: curators willing to twerk

  12-07-2016 13:44
  
  Staff at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York will themselves become works of art this autumn, when the choreographer Jrme Bel presents a performance piece featuring around 25 museum staffthe latest work in the institutions long-running Artists Choice series. The MoMA Dance Company, as Bel calls it, will perform during public hours in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium (27-31 October). Bel has invited each participating member of staff to choreograph a brief solo dance of their
  
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• Chinese government's 'weird architecture' ban in ruins as 'giant toilet' skyscraper is built

  12-07-2016 13:19
  
  Back in February, the Chinese central government demanded an end to all mainland construction of buildings that are "oversized", "xenocentric" or "weird" and a move toward architecture that is "pleasing to the eye".
  
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• Liverpool Biennial review – litterbugs, light shows and left luggage

  12-07-2016 12:10
  
  Designed by committee, this year’s biennial can feel cluttered and overwhelming. But it’s worth fighting to find the good stuff amid the piles of rubbishWas there ever a biennial or a triennial, a Manifesta, Documenta or any other big art shindig that made total sense, whose art was at perfect pitch, whose catalogue was a joy, the theme transparent?Stupid question. There’s rubbish everywhere in the latest Liverpool Biennial; strewn about the floor, swept into corners, accumulat
  
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• German collectors turn their Düsseldorf home into an art gallery

  12-07-2016 12:06
  
  A German collecting couple have converted their private residence in Dsseldorf into a contemporary art complex housing an exhibition space and artist studios. Rosi and Rudolf Dahmen, a retired lawyer, have transformed a former squash centre in the centre of the city, into the 1,500 sq. m Privatsammlung gallery, which can be viewed by appointment.
   
  We intend to show temporary exhibitions, but not on a regular basis. There is no permanent curator. The artists will mainly curate these privat
  
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• Getty and Rothschild team up for fellowship supporting “innovative scholarship”

  12-07-2016 11:10
  
  Two major philanthropic organisations on either side of the Atlanticthe Los Angeles-based Getty Foundation and the UK charity, the Rothschild Foundationhave announced a new joint, annual fellowship which, say the founders, will support innovative scholarship in the history of art, collecting, and conservation, using the collection and resources of both institutions. The first recipient of the Getty Rothchild Fellowship is David Saunders, "a foremost expert in the area of conservation scien
  
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• The art of noise: KlangHaus makes the South Bank shake - in pictures

  12-07-2016 10:58
  
  If you saw KlangHaus at the Edinburgh fringe in 2014, your ears might still be ringing. Pitched somewhere between gig, theatre and exhibition, it’s been reborn as KlangHaus: On Air and is being staged in secret spaces of the Southbank Centre. Tristram Kenton got a close-up view of the art-rock show Continue reading...
  
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• The art of noise: KlangHaus make the South Bank shake - in pictures

  12-07-2016 10:58
  
  If you saw KlangHaus at the Edinburgh fringe in 2014, your ears might still be ringing. Pitched somewhere between gig, theatre and exhibition, it’s been reborn as KlangHaus: On Air and is being staged in secret spaces of the Southbank Centre. Tristram Kenton got a close-up view of the art-rock show Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.11.16

  12-07-2016 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Do Artists Have A Vision For The Future?
  Around the beginning of the 20th Century, several French artists were asked to design a series of cards that would imagine what life would be like 100 years in the future in the year 2000. … read more
  AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-07-10Today in mathiness
  Suppose I suggested that we can think about how the plot of a work of fiction is progressing according to whether the emotional valence is rising or falling. … rea
  
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• Black Paper and White Pen by Serwalo Manchwe.

  12-07-2016 09:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Black Paper and White pen,Telling stories about incarceration,Not from the eyes of the oppressed,But from the mouth of the oppressor.The story will never be understood until the predator tells us his story.As he prays on the weak and vulnerable.Lost souls and weak minds, empty bodies,all seeking redemption.Higher powers and limitless knowledge and for those bodies that seek pleasure in carnal knowledge.
   
  Black Paper, white Pen.Will the echoes of my voice be imprinted on the walls of your m
  
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• The resurrection of Nantes: how free public art brought the city back to life

  12-07-2016 08:30
  
  How did the French city transform post-war decline into a growing cultural awakening? … By giving the public open access to free contemporary artAfter a carousel ride aboard a giant octopus with moving tentacles, we emerge to find an oversized mechanical elephant wandering down the street, steam blowing from its trunk. In the moat of a 14th-century castle lies an electricity pylon, crackling sinisterly.This is not a surreal version of Disneyland, but the north-western French city of Nante
  
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