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• MoMA Acquires and Hangs a Major Early Faith Ringgold

  18-07-2016 23:51 via artnews.com
  For years, Faith Ringgold was best known in the art world as a maker of gorgeous painted quilts and as an author and illustrator of children’s books. Her most famous work has long been Tar Beach (1986), which is both a quilt … Read More
  
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• ‘Reconstructive Memory’ at Galerie Valentin, Paris

  18-07-2016 23:41 via artnews.com
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• Billy Name, Legendary Photographer of Andy Warhol’s Factory, Dies at 76

  18-07-2016 23:15 via artnews.com
  Billy Name, the primary architect, foreman and archivist at Andy Warhol’s Factory, and a photographer who used his camera to immortalize its denizens, has died at 76. His death was confirmed by his agent and publisher Dagon James.“It is with … Read More
  
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• Travel ban lifted on leading Iranian artist

  18-07-2016 23:00
  
  The leading Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli, who was detained by officials earlier this month at Tehrans Imam Khomeini International Airport, has been allowed to leave the country. Tanavoli, who has dual Iranian-Canadian citizenship, arrived in Vancouver yesterday (18 July) where he runs a studio.
   
  Tanavolis passport was confiscated by border officials on 2 July; he was subsequently unable to attend a talk on 3 July at the British Museum. The lecture focused on Tanavolis book European Wome
  
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• Rachel Whiteread unveils first major permanent commission in the US

  18-07-2016 23:00
  
  Turner Prize-winning artist Rachel Whiteread unveils her first major permanent commission in the US today (19 July) while also preparing for a major survey of her work that opens at Tate Britain in 2017 and then at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC.Cabin (2016), a site-specific concrete cast of a wooden shed has been installed on Governors Island, New York, standing on a 40ft hill overlooking New York Harbour as part of a 175m development project.In preparation for her forthco
  
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• Artists speak out at racial injustice in the US

  18-07-2016 23:00
  
  Racial discontent is at its highest since the US president Barack Obama came to power in 2008, according to a poll last week by the New York Times and CBS News. The deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of police, and the killing of five police officers in Dallas and three more this week in Baton Rouge, have prompted protests across America and calls for law enforcement reform.Artists, too, are voicing their anger and frustration at recent events, as well as historical inst
  
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• Artists speak out against racial injustice in the US

  18-07-2016 23:00
  
  Racial discontent is at its highest since the US president Barack Obama came to power in 2008, according to a poll last week by the New York Times and CBS News. The deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of police, and the killing of five police officers in Dallas and three more this week in Baton Rouge, have prompted protests across America and calls for law enforcement reform.Artists, too, are voicing their anger and frustration at recent events, as well as historical inst
  
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• All aboard the Mary Rose: Henry VIII’s fully restored warship opens to the public

  18-07-2016 23:00
  
  Today (19 July)471 years to the day when the Mary Rose sank with 500 crew on boardthe barriers erected during the vessels conservation to separate the ship from the public will come down.That people can actually visit the Mary RoseHenry VIIIs prized warship sunk by the French, just 2km from Portsmouth Harbour, during the Battle of the Solent in 1545along with its amazingly well-preserved contents is quite extraordinary.The mere suggestion today of asking divers to tunnel under the wreck so it c
  
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• San Francisco museum to have largest US collection of Mexican and Latino art

  18-07-2016 22:49
  
  The new Mexican Museum will showcase a collection started by the late artist Peter Rodriguez, who opened the city’s first Latino art museum in 1975San Francisco is getting another cultural treasure – a world-class museum to showcase the largest collection of Mexican and Latino art in the nation.A dedication ceremony is set for Tuesday for the new Mexican Museum – the realization of a dream by Mexican American artist Peter Rodriguez, who opened the city’s first museum for
  
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• Mexican art museum coming to San Francisco realizes a 40-year dream

  18-07-2016 22:49
  
  The world-class Mexican Museum will showcase a collection started by the late artist Peter Rodriguez, who opened the city’s first Latino art museum in 1975San Francisco is getting another cultural treasure – a world-class museum to showcase the largest collection of Mexican and Latino art in the nation.A dedication ceremony is set for Tuesday for the new Mexican Museum – the realization of a dream by Mexican-American artist Peter Rodriguez, who opened the city’s first mu
  
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• Consumer Reports: Zane Reynolds

  18-07-2016 22:33 via artnews.com
  Zane Reynolds is an artist and musician based in Los Angeles. Reynolds makes electronic music under the SFV Acid moniker as well as drawings and paintings that explore life in his homeland: California’s San Fernando Valley. Reynolds has a show … Read More
  
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• Artwashing: the new watchword for anti-gentrification protesters

  18-07-2016 18:05
  
  Campaigners in Los Angeles have coined a new term to stop galleries opening in poor areas. Do they want to keep urban communities segregated?When you hear the word culture, do you reach for your copy of Das Kapital?Some anti-gentrification protesters do. In one of the daftest and most perverse logics of the modern left, campaigners in the Boyle Heights neighbourhood of Los Angeles say that while they are “not against art and culture”, they see the art galleries opening in their stree
  
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• Jessica Silverman Gallery Now Represents Judy Chicago

  18-07-2016 17:18 via artnews.com
  San Francisco’s Jessica Silverman Gallery announced today that it now represents Judy Chicago, the feminist-art pioneer whose work deals with female sexuality and and the role of women throughout art history. The news comes two months after New York’s Salon … Read More
  
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• Treasures of Versailles to go on display in Australia

  18-07-2016 17:04
  
  A harp belonging to Marie Antoinette and part of a fountain at French palace are among 130 items to travel to CanberraRiches from the Palace of Versailles including a harp belonging to Marie Antoinette will travel to Australia, the country’s national gallery has said, as part of a display never seen outside France.More than 130 paintings, tapestries, pieces of furniture, statues and other objects from Versailles, one of France’s grandest museums, will be on display in the Australian
  
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• Seventeen Le Corbusier buildings named World Heritage Sites by Unesco

  18-07-2016 16:05
  
  Unesco has designated 17 buildings by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier (Charles-douard Jeanneret-Gris) as World Heritage Sites. The decision was announced by the world heritage committee of the United Nations cultural committee, which met last week in Istanbul for its 40th session. The conference was suspended on Saturday during the attempted military coup in the city, but resumed on 17 July. Le Corbusiers Complexe du Capitole in Chandigarh in India; the National Museum of Western A
  
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• Seventeen Le Corbusier buildings named World Heritage Sites

  18-07-2016 16:05
  
  Unesco has designated 17 buildings by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier (Charles-douard Jeanneret-Gris) as World Heritage Sites. The decision was announced by the world heritage committee of the United Nations cultural committee, which met last week in Istanbul for its 40th session. The conference was suspended on Saturday during the attempted military coup in the city, but resumed on 17 July. Le Corbusiers Complexe du Capitole in Chandigarh in India; the National Museum of Western A
  
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• Morning Links: Alan Vega Edition

  18-07-2016 15:02 via artnews.com
  ALAN VEGAAlan Vega, the visual artist and founder (along with Martin Rev) of the seminal New York band Suicide, died Saturday at 78. [New York Times]RARE FREUDThe BBC claims it has identified an early Lucian Freud painting valued at at … Read More
  
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• Where Is This Election Year’s Shepard Fairey?

  18-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As the 2016 campaign season enters the nominating stage — the Republican National Convention opens on Monday in Cleveland; the Democratic National Convention follows the next week in Philadelphia — no image even approaching the power or reach of Mr. Fairey’s poster has emerged.”
  
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• Wonder Woman Needed A Woman To Direct It, Says Its Star, And Here’s Why

  18-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For a long time, people didn’t know how to approach the story. When Patty and I had our creative conversations about the character, we realized that Diana can still be a normal woman, one with very high values, but still a woman. She can be sensitive. She is smart and independent and emotional. She can be confused. She can lose her confidence. She can have confidence. She is everything. She has a human heart.”
  
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• The Punk Rock Elementary School Teachers Who Served As The Ghostbusters Band

  18-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “How did a little-known, do-it-yourself band wind up in Hollywood blockbuster? It started with Halloween costumes.”
  
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• Grafitti Bombing With The Artists In Hong Kong

  18-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The main mission of the night was to paint a highway spot. I quickly lost track of where we were as we drove through canyons of high-rises and tangles of highways, occasionally glancing a prominent throw-up or a tag on a roadside structure.”
  
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• Broadway’s Love Affair With Hip Hop Goes Way Beyond ‘Hamilton’

  18-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Or at least, hip hop’s love affair with Broadway goes back way before Lin-Manuel Miranda even had one major hit show (don’t miss that time rapper k-osopened a track with a sample from Sound of Music’s nun chorus).
  
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• The Best Photos Of The Century-Old Theatre That Became A Bookstore

  18-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 2008 El Ateneo Grand Splendid was named the second most beautiful bookshop in the world by The Guardian, and that’s no surprise.”
  
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• Visual Artists Respond To The Horrific Attack In Nice

  18-07-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As was the case after the attacks on Charlie Hebo and Paris, the artwork is raw, cathartic, and essential.”
  
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• Theatre’s (Not-So-) Hidden Power Couple

  18-07-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We were both winning awards, but we couldn’t come to each other’s [ceremonies] to celebrate each other.”
  
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• Lucian Freud painting he denied was his is genuine and worth £300k, BBC art show Fake or Fortune? finds

  18-07-2016 12:05
  
  Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould 'investigated Freud the man' to make their discovery
  
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• Sun, sea, swearing and the home secretary at Hastings Art Car Boot Fair

  18-07-2016 11:00
  The Art Car Boot Fair made its Hastings debut in grand style on Saturday: not only was it blessed with one of the sunniest days of our so-far somewhat soggy summer, but it was also anointed by an unexpected visit from Amber Rudd, the local MP for Hastings and Rye and, as from last week, the Home Secretary in Prime Minster Theresa Mays new-look Conservative government.
  Having made a snappyand shrewdpurchase of Sir Peter Blakes Kurt Schwitter-esque special edition Art Car Boot Fair print, the Hom
  
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• Damien Hirst’s formaldehyde works are not harmful after all

  18-07-2016 10:38
  
  A report published earlier this year which claimed that the fumes from Damien Hirsts formaldehyde works, shown at Tate Modern in 2012, were putting people at risk has been retracted by one of its authors who now says that the findings are inaccurate and unreliable. A scientific research team led by Pier Giorgio Righetti, a professor of chemistry at Milan Polytechnic, monitored the levels of formaldehyde at the Tate show, which was used to preserve works such as Mother and Child Divided, ma
  
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• The Walker Art Center gets $1m for more live art

  18-07-2016 10:15
  
  The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has received a hefty $1m grant from the New York-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will fund a three-and-a-half year initiative promoting the museums multidisciplinary programme. Performance art will be boosted under the new initiative which launches this month, culminating in nine large-scale commissioned events by artists including "jazz/visual artist Jason Moran, dance/living installation artist Maria Hassabi, and French/British video/performance a
  
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• First Night of the Proms: Gabetta/Borodina/BBCSO/Oramo, Prom 2: Boris Godunov, ROH, Royal Albert Hall, review: 'Exquisite'

  18-07-2016 09:56
  
  This year's Proms opened with a rousing rendition of the Marseillaise from the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo: the day after the Nice atrocity, no gesture could have better underlined solidarity with our traumatised concitoyens. From that it was a graceful segue into Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet overture, with strings and woodwind in coruscating form. Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata gave the combined choruses of the BBCSO and BBCNOW their head, with a refined intervention from
  
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• Prisma: ‘Edvard Munch did not have a “Munch filter” in his brain’

  18-07-2016 09:00
  
  Its makers reckon it can turn any old snap into a masterpiece in the style of Picasso or Hokusai. A Guardian art critic thinks otherwise ...In any city that is famous for its art you will find shops, claiming to be galleries, that sell godawful kitsch sunset scenes, ripoffs of graffiti art, sub-Warholian celebrity portraits and whatever else they think tourists might mistake for modern art. Now you, too, can create “art” like that. Prisma takes perfectly nice photographs and turns th
  
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• Top Posts On AJBlogs For 07.17.16

  18-07-2016 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Future of Orchestras, Part III: Bruckner, Palestrina, and the Rolling Stones
  “Would the New York Philharmonic sing Palestrina?” – the question posed by my … read more
  AJBlog: Unanswered QuestionPublished 2016-07-17Dancing With Your Selves
  Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer present the New York premieres of two works. Myrna Packer and Art Bridgman(s) in their Voyeur. Photo: Tyler Silver One source of theater’s magic lies in the interplay between what’s …
  
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• Our Don’t-Miss Stories From Last Week’s ArtsJournal: Musical Prime Minister Edition

  18-07-2016 00:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This week: A penetrating portrait of artist Chuck Close, a reality check on meritocracy as a concept, a look at anger and our access to visceral emotion in a media-saturated world, the enduring meritocracy of the Emmy as measure of success, and a Prime Minister exits stage right, humming.
  
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• This Week In Audience: Audience Confusion Editon

  18-07-2016 00:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Pokemon Go suggests a different relationship between real and virtual, an art prize in which critics don’t matter, museums challenge visitors to spot fakes, a French city that has reinvented itself around art, and a claim that modern audiences are confused and uncertain.
  
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