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• Object lessons: from an ancient Greek coin to a chronicle of English kings

  17-07-2016 23:00
  
  Gold stater of Lampsakos (394-350BC)
  Horses, Rulers and Victory in the Art of Ancient Greek Coinage, Kallos Gallery, London, until 29 July
  Priced at 150,000Founded in 2014 by the Swiss entrepreneur and collector Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza, Londons Kallos Gallery specialises in Greek antiquities and romantically titled exhibitions. The latest show, which coincided with London Art Week and continues to the end of July, focuses on a humble but exquisite group of 12 gold coins dating from 561BC to 135
  
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• Long Museum tackles Cultural Revolution with rare show of paintings

  17-07-2016 23:00
  
  Few episodes loom larger in Chinas collective memory than the Cultural Revolution, the decade of terror unleashed by Mao Zedong as part of his war on the bourgeoisie. From 1966 until his death ten years later, Mao mobilised Chinas young people, turning them against their parents and teachers and sanctioning torture and public executions. Though officially denounced as early as 1981, the Cultural Revolution has remained a highly sensitive subject in China; the media have largely avoided all ment
  
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• Long Museum Chongqing tackles Cultural Revolution with rare show of paintings

  17-07-2016 23:00
  
  Few episodes loom larger in Chinas collective memory than the Cultural Revolution, the decade of terror unleashed by Mao Zedong as part of his war on the bourgeoisie. From 1966 until his death ten years later, Mao mobilised Chinas young people, turning them against their parents and teachers and sanctioning torture and public executions. Though officially denounced as early as 1981, the Cultural Revolution has remained a highly sensitive subject in China; the media have largely avoided all ment
  
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• BBC says painting is by Lucian Freud despite his denials

  17-07-2016 22:00
  
  BBC1’s Fake or Fortune attributes painting to acclaimed artist and says it is worth at least £300,000The BBC says it has identified an early Lucian Freud painting worth at least £300,000, despite the artist denying throughout his life that it was his work.Fake or Fortune, presented by Fiona Bruce and the art historian Philip Mould on BBC One, has attributed the painting, which is of a man in a black cravat, to the acclaimed artist, who died in 2011. Continue reading...
  
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• Barbara Kirk obituary

  17-07-2016 19:03
  
  My aunt, Barbara Kirk, who has died aged 92, was active as an artist for most of her life. Her painterly sensibility was brought to bear on her many interests, including architecture, history, literature, landscape and horticulture.She was born Barbara Traill in Ottery St Mary, Devon. Her father, Ralph, was a GP and her mother, Gladys (nee Lace), ran the dispensary from their home and was a magistrate for many years. Continue reading...
  
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• This Woman Squatted At James Baldwin’s House In Order To Save It

  17-07-2016 18:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To clean the floor of James Baldwin’s guest room would take 32 disposable cleaning wipes. I figured this out on my hands and knees, estimating the square footage of the terra cotta tile surface. There were 40 wipes in the package. If I used one wipe per roughly two square feet, I’d have enough.”
  
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• What’s The Point Of Australia’s Archibald Art Prize?

  17-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One of the lessons of the Archibald prize is that it’s impervious to criticism. … The prize runs by its own rules, which are really just a set of guidelines – more like a surrealist parlour game where inclusions are governed by exceptions.”
  
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• This Author’s (Sexy) Debut Set A Record For A Book Advance

  17-07-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sally Beauman “said she turned to fiction to spend more time with her son. Writing romances for Harlequin, she said, was a useful way to learn pacing, dialogue and how to make the plot move.”
  
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• The Comedy Troupe Made Up Of Actors With Asperger’s Syndrome

  17-07-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Our original goal was, ‘Let’s entertain people who have our sense of humor — who like that wordplay, who like that absurdism,’… But then all these people showed up, as I predicted, who were there out of guilt or curiosity or a sense of ‘I want to learn more about someone in my family.’ We’re not writing for them, but we understand those people come and we’re happy to have them.”
  
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• Summer Camp For The Conductors Of Tomorrow

  17-07-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Adding a conducting program seemed a natural way for [the Eastern Music Festival] to expand beyond training 200-plus young instrumentalists in classical orchestral and chamber music.”
  
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• The First Coup Foiled By FaceTime And Text Message?

  17-07-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Honorable Turkish nation, claim democracy and peace: I am calling you to the streets against this action of a narrow cadre that has fallen against the Turkish nation. Claim the state, claim the nation.”
  
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• The Second Coming Of Harry Potter (And J.K. Rowling)

  17-07-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With the rollout of the new work, publishers, retailers and fans are preparing for an explosion of all things Harry Potter reminiscent of the series’ heyday more than decade ago.”
  
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• Modern Ballet Dancers Can’t Just Do The Same Old Gravity-Defying, Dazzling Repertoire (Says A Dancer)

  17-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Where a classical dancer would have, in the past, said ‘no that’s not for me, I don’t want to push myself into that field or roll around on the floor in mud’, with all those things you have to be much more open.”
  
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• Jimmy Cauty: 'I'm an outsider artist'

  17-07-2016 16:00
  
  Infamous for flaming a million pounds in the KLF, Jimmy Cauty is now smashing miniature windows in model villages. As the artist tours his tiny riot scenes, we caught up with him in Tottenham to talk Stonehenge and substandard graffiti“Makes you think, doesn’t it?” says a mechanic, nodding towards the graffiti-daubed shipping container parked in the road outside the Styx theatre. It’s clocking-off time on a muggy summer’s evening and passersby are milling about, pee
  
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• A Lot Of Nazi Art Loot Was Returned … To Nazi Families

  17-07-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “New research in the yellowing archives here makes clear how relentlessly Nazi families pursued the Bavarian officials, badgering them, often successfully, to return art they brazenly continued to view as their property.”
  
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• Have Black Market Tickets Reached A Tipping Point?

  17-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Campaigners are urging the government to take “four pragmatic steps” that would disrupt the touts and help get more face-value tickets into the hands of fans. Meanwhile, gig goers are being encouraged to sign up at fanfairalliance.org where they can share their experiences and stories, and there are plans to produce educational guides for fans and music businesses.”
  
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• Agustín Arteaga appointed new director of the Dallas Museum of Art

  17-07-2016 15:18
  
  The Dallas Museum of Art has announced that Agustn Arteaga, who was born in Mexico City, will serve as its next director. The move comes after Maxwell Anderson abruptly stepped down after almost four years as director last September; he returned to New York to serve as director of grant programmes at the New Cities Foundation (he has since become executive director). Arteaga, who takes the reins 1 September, currently serves as director of the Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City whe
  
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• The Man Who Elevated Choral Standards In The U.S. But Also Championed New Work

  17-07-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Smith founded the Gregg Smith Singers in 1955, when he was still a graduate student of music at the University of California, Los Angeles, and led it for more than 50 years, maintaining its reputation as one of the finest and most adventurous professional choruses in the United States.”
  
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• Great Artistic Directors – Like Christopher Haydon Of London’s Gate – Know When To Step Down

  17-07-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An AD is only ever a custodian, and a publicly funded theatre should never be a personal fiefdom. Every theatre that is genuinely interested in serving artists and audiences must undergo constant reinvention, and sometimes that will include the need for new blood.”
  
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• Wait, The Emmys Got Most Things Right?

  17-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These 25 nominations were surprising – in a good way, for once.
  
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• Health Concerns For Estelle Parsons Abruptly Shutter Off-Broadway Play

  17-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Her doctor advised her against returning to the show, and the Cherry Lane Theater decided to end the run, which had been scheduled to continue until July 31.”
  
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• How To Write (Well) About Film

  17-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The writer is tasked not only with verbally transmitting image and movement, but also capturing something of the mood or fantasy evoked onscreen, and grappling with medium-specific gestures so minor they’re almost implied; here, the challenge is to convey but not overwork such moments, keeping both effect and subtlety intact, as if handing over a moth without dissolving its wings.”
  
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• What The Hell Happened To British Culture Between The London Olympics And This Brexit Disaster?

  17-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The man who wrote the opening ceremonies: “The ceremony didn’t depict a nation, it revealed it. It didn’t describe Britain, it WAS Britain – in the way that the Blitz spirit was or Dunkirk or The Last Night of the Proms. What. The. Hell. Happened?”
  
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• How Did Dudamel Do With West Side Story?

  17-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And, by the way, is it an opera or isn’t it?
  
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• The Murder Of An Internet Star In Turkey Raises Many Questions

  17-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Baloch, who was 26 years old, first rose to prominence after appearing in a Pakistani singing-competition show. Using Twitter and Facebook to post racy videos where she opined on controversial topics, she rapidly became one of the country’s most widely known social-media figures.”
  
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• The Metropolitan Museum Could Cut Well More Than 100 Jobs

  17-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Curatorial and conservation jobs are likely to be cut by an additional 5 percent, and administrative staff — including marketing, human resources, and digital personnel — may see staff cuts of 15 to 20 percent.”
  
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• Ragnar Kjartansson review – one of the most brilliant artists at work today

  17-07-2016 08:00
  
  Barbican, London
  Prepare to be enchanted by the playful, melancholy, sociable art of Iceland’s Ragnar KjartanssonOn the still waters of the Barbican lake drifts a boat bearing two girls in Edwardian costume. The reflection of their puffed sleeves and wasp waists makes a strangely familiar white blur. These are the summer beauties from many a Monet; indeed they are floating towards a waterlily reef. But it’s a scene fit for Courbet too, for these girls have cast aside the oars to lean
  
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• Ragnar Kjartansson review – one of the greatest artists at work today

  17-07-2016 08:00
  
  Barbican, London
  Prepare to be enchanted by the playful, melancholy, sociable art of Iceland’s brilliant Ragnar KjartanssonOn the still waters of the Barbican lake drifts a boat bearing two girls in Edwardian costume. The reflection of their puffed sleeves and wasp waists makes a strangely familiar white blur. These are the summer beauties from many a Monet; indeed they are floating towards a waterlily reef. But it’s a scene fit for Courbet too, for these girls have cast aside the oa
  
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• Ragnar Kjartansson review – a brilliant fusion of humour and sorrow

  17-07-2016 08:00
  
  Barbican, London
  Prepare to be enchanted by the playful, melancholy, sociable art of Iceland’s Ragnar KjartanssonOn the still waters of the Barbican lake drifts a boat bearing two girls in Edwardian costume. The reflection of their puffed sleeves and wasp waists makes a strangely familiar white blur. These are the summer beauties from many a Monet; indeed they are floating towards a waterlily reef. But it’s a scene fit for Courbet too, for these girls have cast aside the oars to lean
  
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• The day I tried to give a black iris to Georgia O’Keeffe

  17-07-2016 07:00
  
  For art-history student Alex Sutherland, finally tracking down the great American artist was only the start of the challengeI was an art history student in the late 70s and my tutor, seemingly immune to feminist discussions going on elsewhere, said if I insisted on writing on a 20th-century female artist I had to choose between Georgia O’Keeffe and Barbara Hepworth.Hepworth had recently died, and I was convinced I had to meet the artist if my dissertation was to have any significance. So I
  
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