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• Do Cuba’s Abandoned Arts Schools Hold The Key To Its Future?

  14-07-2016 23:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is difficult to separate the history of the Cuban Revolution from the fate of the National Art Schools as they themselves were building revolutionary desire. During their abandonment, over the course of decades, nature returned. This time it was not the scenic nature of the old golf course, but the greed of vines, lianas trees, animals, and flooding.”
  
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• Andreas Slominski at Krauthügel Art Project, Salzburg

  14-07-2016 23:53 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Van Gogh: painter on the verge of a nervous breakdown

  14-07-2016 23:00
  Vincent van Goghs (1853-90) mutilation of his ear and his eventual suicide have dominated public perceptions of the painter, often overshadowing his artistic achievements. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which has tended to avoid these sensationalist issues, is now confronting them directly in a show that examines his medical history.
  With 25 paintings and drawings from the final 18 months of his life, the show will illustrate his struggle with illness. The problem erupted mostly famously on 2
  
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• Rebuilding the Ferhadija Mosque in Bosnian

  14-07-2016 23:00
  This extract, from the recently released The Destruction of Memory (2016), shows the rebuilding of the Ferhadija Mosque in Bosnian, two decades after it was destroyed in 1993 during the Bosnian War. The restoration was led by Muhamed Hamidovic, a professor of architecture from Sarajevo, who had sketched the mosque as a student. The film is based on a book of the same name by Robert Bevan.
  
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• It's raining visitors at Lacma

  14-07-2016 23:00
  
  Visitors to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) rose to 1.4 million in the past year, boosted by Random International's Rain Room and its Robert Mapplethorpe show, among other exhibitions and events.The latest batch of timed tickets for Rain Room, the installation of which on the Lacma campus is sponsored by Hyundai, went on sale yesterday (14 July). The indoor artificial downpour, which opened last November, has now been extended and is due to continue until 22 November. The piec
  
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• Conductor Chung Myung-whun Returns To Seoul As Prosecutors Summon Him

  14-07-2016 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Former Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra CEO Park Hyun-jung, who was ousted as the orchestra head in December 2014 over allegations of sexual and verbal harassment by members of the SPO, has filed a suit against Chung and his wife, surnamed Koo, who are currently staying in France, on charges of defamation.”
  
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• Classical Music In China Represents So Much More That Classical Music

  14-07-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The story of western classical music’s trajectory in China summons a vast canvas, featuring priests, revolutionaries, heroes and emperors.
  
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• David Cameron Hums as He Quits And Musicians Have A Field Day

  14-07-2016 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On his last day as Prime Minister David Cameron came out to speak to reporters and when we was done, turned away and hummed a short tune followed by “right!” But his mic was still on, and after news outlets played it, musicians began turning it into full-blown pieces of music…
  
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• Dallas Museum of Art Hires Agustín Arteaga as Director

  14-07-2016 19:32 via artnews.com
  Big news: the Dallas Museum of Art has hired Agustín Arteaga to be its new director, taking the place of Maxwell L. Anderson, who stepped down last fall to become director of grant programs of the New Cities Foundation.Arteaga comes … Read More
  
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• Theaster Gates on the nuts and bolts of life – all 30,000 of them

  14-07-2016 19:15
  
  The US artist has transplanted his South Side Chicago hardware shop to Milan’s Fondazione Prada to highlight the disappearing store of human knowledgeTheaster Gates was already thinking about hardware stores before he walked into Ken’s shop on the corner of 93rd and Halsted in the South Side of Chicago. It was the kind of place saturated with years of expertise, dozens of small wooden drawers filled with screws, bolts and bits of pipe.Ken had bought the shop in 1970 from Italian immi
  
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• After the Falls: Bas Jan Ader at Metro Pictures, New York

  14-07-2016 18:43 via artnews.com
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• The Anti-Museum Director: Alanna Heiss on the 40th Anniversary of PS1 Contemporary Art Center

  14-07-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  Alanna Heiss founded the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in an abandoned school in Queens in 1976. The building had no roof, no windows, no plumbing, and no electrical wiring. This remained the case even after Heiss opened the first exhibition … Read More
  
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• Samson Young Will Represent Hong Kong at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  14-07-2016 17:40 via artnews.com
  The M+ museum and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council announced today that Samson Young will represent Hong Kong at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Hong Kong–based curator Ying Kwok will organize the pavilion.Young is best known for his sound pieces, … Read More
  
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• David Bowie's private £10m art collection goes on display for first time

  14-07-2016 15:24
  
  The 'Starman' singer said in 1998 that art was the 'only thing' he'd ever wanted to own
  
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• Morning Links: Pokémon Go Edition

  14-07-2016 14:54 via artnews.com
  Augmented RealityHot on the heels of the Washington, D.C’s Holocaust Museum, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland has issued a ban on the use of Pokémon Go on its grounds. [CBS News]Instead of chasing animated creatures through a gallery, British artist … Read More
  
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• Ragnar Kjartansson finds a home from home in the Barbican

  14-07-2016 12:32
  
  The artist Ragnar Kjartansson spent much of his childhood backstage at the Reykjavik City Theatre, where his father directed and his mother starred in many plays. Born in 1976, he claims to have been conceived after a steamy scene between his parents in a play called Mordsaga (Murder Story).
  Ahead of his solo show at the Barbican Art Gallery, which opens today (14 July), he told us about why his first big exhibition in London makes perfect sense. "Ever since I was a kid we would go on trips to
  
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• David Bowie's private art collection to be unveiled for the first time

  14-07-2016 11:37
  
  Works the late singer quietly collected over the years to go on display before being auctioned at Sotheby’sThe spectacular art collection quietly assembled by David Bowie – including works by Damien Hirst and Henry Moore – is to go on display for the first time before being auctioned. Related: The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley review – the true importance of a pop masterContinue reading...
  
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• Art for Instagram - is social media ruining art?

  14-07-2016 11:14
  
  Should social sharing be encouraged or is art now just a tool for our narcissism? Come for the photo-op but stay for the masterpieces, says Holly Williams
  
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• What sort of tablet should I buy for drawing?

  14-07-2016 10:54
  
  Niamh would like to start drawing on a tablet instead of paper, and would like to be an animator. Where could she start? Continue reading...
  
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• David Bowie’s art and design collection heads to Sotheby's

  14-07-2016 10:29
  
  The Thin White Duke loved art (and loved making art) so its no surprise that a three-part sale of David Bowies collection, which goes under the hammer at Sothebys London in November, includes more than 400 works by major names such as Henry Moore, Frank Auerbach, and Jean-Michel Basquiat (as well as Outsider art and contemporary African art). Bowies eclectic taste is reflected in the three-part sale which is divided into Modern and contemporary art (evening auction, 10 November; day auction, 11
  
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• Gods and monsters: Raqib Shaw's phantasmagoric portraits – in pictures

  14-07-2016 08:00
  
  In a series of wild self portraits, Raqib Shaw has turned Old Masters paintings into unhinged tableaux of colour, energy and spirituality Continue reading...
  
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• The Archibald prize finally hit gender parity but where are the women on the walls?

  14-07-2016 07:10
  
  The Archibald prize celebrates portraits of Australians ‘distinguished in art, letters, science or politics’. So how come so few are of women?This year Australia’s most popular art exhibition, the Archibald prize for portraiture, included in their media kit a gender breakdown of finalists: 25 women, 26 men. It’s not something they usually do, perhaps because it’s not something they usually want to brag about, but 2016 is the first time gender parity has been reached
  
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• Refugee artist's blank postcards send message about attitudes to asylum seekers

  14-07-2016 06:42
  
  Brisbane-based Sha Sarwari has won a national art prize with his installation of the postcards Australians never sent Inspiration struck Sha Sarwari as he pondered how his warm personal encounters as a refugee in Australia belied the portrayal of asylum seekers in its politics and media.“I wanted to know for myself, to see what people think,” says the visual artist, an ethnic Hazara from Afghanistan who arrived on a boat from Indonesia in 2000 as a teenager fleeing the persecution of
  
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• Opening of the UK's largest art exhibition – archive, 14 July 1857

  14-07-2016 06:00
  
  14 July 1857: A spectacular glass pavilion in Manchester is filled with 16,000 artworks for the Art Treasures ExhibitionThe reign of Anne is like one of those meetings of tidal waters where the voyager is tossed in the hurly-burly of opposing forces till he is sickened and confused, and only discovers the overmastering strength of the dominant current when it has borne him out of the broken water of the tide-way. In this reign struggled for the last time, as equal antagonists, the claims of the
  
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• Will We Still Need Dancers In The Age Of Robots?

  14-07-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I cling to the slim hope that some human labor will always be necessary. Somebody will have to program the prima ballerina to dance. But choreography will be taught at schools like MIT.Humans will still be needed to build and repair the prima ballerina robots, unless other robots are built for the purpose of building and repairing prima ballerina robots. But even then, humans will still be needed to build and repair the robots that are built for the purpose of building and repairingprima
  
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