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• Andrew Barber and Bill Culbert at Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand

  20-07-2016 23:48 via artnews.com
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• Louder than words: on the Language of Things at City Hall Park

  20-07-2016 23:00
  
  In bustling cities like New York, public art fights for attention with a myriad of stimuli: construction noise, street performers and towering architecture, to name a few. The Public Art Fund, the non-profit responsible for many of New Yorks outdoor contemporary art installations (such as Elmgreen and Dragsets Van Goghs Ear at Rockefeller Center, until August 16), conscientiously faces this challenge in its newest group exhibition, The Language of Things. According to its organisers, this exhib
  
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• French luxury goods billionaire François Pinault makes German debut

  20-07-2016 23:00
  
  The French luxury goods billionaire Franois Pinault is showing works from his vast contemporary art collection for the first time in Germany in the exhibition Dancing with Myself at the Museum Folkwang in Essen (7 October-15 January 2017). More than 100 works by artists such as Roni Horn, Rodney Graham, Steve McQueen, Ulrike Rosenbach and Lili Reynaud-Dewar focus on the idea of self-representation, with an entire room dedicated to the US photographer Cindy Sherman. Bruce Naumans vast
  
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• All together now: on the Francis Bacon catalogue raisonné

  20-07-2016 23:00
  
  It was an absurdity that until June of this year Francis Bacon (1909-92), the foremost British painter of the 20th century and one of the giants of Modernist art, did not have a catalogue raisonn. Researchers had to scour miscellaneous catalogues (including the incomplete 1964 catalogue raisonn compiled by Ronald Alley) in search of images and data. Now, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonn, a grand five-volume affair (boxed and bound in dark-grey cloth) documents 584 paintings by Bacon.
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• PSA: Museum Will Show ‘Space Jam’

  20-07-2016 19:39 via artnews.com
  In 1996, the world was rocked by the epic battle on the basketball court between a mystical group of space aliens possessing the stolen powers of a number of future NBA Hall of Famers, and their cartoon animal rivals, led … Read More
  
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• Suhanya Raffel Appointed Executive Director of M+ Museum

  20-07-2016 18:47 via artnews.com
  Today it was announced by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority that Suhanya Raffel will be taking over the position of executive director of the M+ Museum, located in Hong Kong. M+, which is set to open in 2019, is … Read More
  
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• Amy’s Web: Amy Cutler at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

  20-07-2016 17:43 via artnews.com
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• Matters of Life and Death: Brian Whiteley Retrieves His Trump Tombstone From the NYPD

  20-07-2016 16:27 via artnews.com
  With a headband around his neck, a black dolly, and the appropriate paperwork, last Friday afternoon, the artist Brian Whiteley walked into the NYPD Queens Property Office hoping to retrieve a piece of evidence: his 465-pound Legacy Stone, better known … Read More
  
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• Why Big Publishing’s Blockbuster Mentality Is Good For Indie Presses And Good For American Literature

  20-07-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When editors and publishers feel they need to fight for every moment of planned reading, and readers are experiencing a shrinking cultural attention span, it’s surprising that large books inherently make the most market sense. With this pattern of investment behavior, major presses are inadvertently helping foster an environment where American indie presses can thrive by doing the very thing they’re best at: being small and, by extension, focusing on creativity and originality
  
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• ‘Reparations’: Opera Can – No, It Must – Become A Tool Of Cultural Change, Says New York Times Classical Music Editor

  20-07-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For centuries, opera has been a tool of power, a spectacle developed and organized by influential Western nations and the elites within them. It is long past time for the art form to be more open about this heritage, and to make reparations for it. Using opera to understand the connections between cultures and to experiment with what can bridge them is no longer merely an aesthetic possibility; it’s a moral necessity.”
  
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• Stewart Pearce, 65, Former Met Opera Director Of Planning And Budgets And Chief Of Metropolitan Opera Guild

  20-07-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pearce devoted virtually his entire career to two arts organizations that were intimately connected – the Metropolitan Opera and the Metropolitan Opera Guild – and over a period of almost forty years his service to both institutions was distinguished, marked by intelligence, acumen and a rare degree of discretion.”
  
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• UCLA To Build New $31M Graduate Art Studios Complex

  20-07-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The [existing] studios are located on land owned by UCLA in Culver City – inside a central warehouse, with various additions, that has grown increasingly dilapidated over time. …[The] new, two-story structure with a translucent roof that would create a protected, light-filled, open-air courtyard … would increase usable space by 40%, as well as add an exhibition area and an artist-in-residence studio.” (Take that, USC!)
  
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• Morning Links: Gagosian Gallery Taxes Edition

  20-07-2016 14:49 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: Gagosian Gallery Back Taxes Edition

  20-07-2016 14:49 via artnews.com
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• 17 Le Corbusier Buildings Named UNESCO World Heritage Sites

  20-07-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Citing Le Corbusier’s inventive architectural language, UNESCO praised the collection of projects for ‘[reflecting] the solutions that the Modern Movement sought to apply during the 20th century to the challenges of inventing new architectural techniques to respond to the needs of society.'” (includes photos of all 17 sites)
  
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• Whoa, We Didn’t Offer That English National Opera Guy A Job, Says Bolshoi Boss (Well, Not A *Top* Job)

  20-07-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Monday, the Financial Times reported that Berry was heading to a top job at the Bolshoi, a place where senior positions usually go to Russians. But the Bolshoi’s general director Vladimir Urin said in a statement: ‘[The] Bolshoi does not intend to hire Mr Berry as one of the house’s top managers.'”
  
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• Gagosian Gallery To Pay New York State $4.3 Million In Back Sales Taxes

  20-07-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The New York attorney general’s office, continuing its crackdown on alleged tax abuses in the art world, said Tuesday that New York dealer Larry Gagosian agreed to pay $4.3 million in unpaid sales taxes, including interest and penalties, for art he sold through his gallery.”
  
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• Garry Marshall, Creator Of TV’s ‘The Odd Couple’, ‘Happy Days’, And ‘Mork And Mindy’ And Director Of ‘Pretty Woman’, Dead At 81

  20-07-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To credit the multi-talented Marshall with any single accomplishment would be to diminish his others. He was everything – a director, writer, producer and actor, yes, but also a drummer and a journalist. … His career in the arts spanned six decades – seven if you count him drumming for a class of aspiring dancers at six years old – and he became arguably one of the most influential people in the entertainment business.”
  
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• Carolyn See, 82, Novelist, Memoirist, And Washington Post Book Critic

  20-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Dr. See was the author of 10 books, encompassing fiction and nonfiction, and was co-author of several more. For 27 years until her retirement in 2014, she was a regular book reviewer for The Washington Post. … ‘When I started to write I was relatively old, and lived in California. So I was the wrong sex, wrong age, wrong coast,’ she wrote in an essay. ‘Luckily I was too ignorant to know it.'”
  
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• Snapping Hip Syndrome: An Explainer For Dancers

  20-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Does this statement sound familiar to you? ‘My hip snaps or pops when I do grand battement or developpé devant or à la seconde. The snap sometimes presents with pain but sometimes not, and happens either on the up phase or down phase of the movement.’ Dancers might also notice decreased range of motion through the sagittal or frontal planes.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.19.16

  20-07-2016 10:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Is This A Portrait If I Say So? A Gutsy Exhibition
  But enough about the Met, for the time being at least. Let’s let a little dust settle there. Can we talk about art for a day? Specifically, … read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-07-19Community Engagement Training? – Request for Assistance
  I have also observed that significant numbers of young professionals and pre-professionals in the arts are individually passionate about making the arts meaningful to their
  
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• Melbourne street artist gives Taylor Swift an 'in memoriam' mural amid Kimye feud

  20-07-2016 10:40
  
  'Touch wood it lasts a little bit so people can come have their fun with it and pay respects to our fallen sweet princess Tay'
  
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• Brothers gonna work it out

  20-07-2016 10:14
  
  The high-profile architect David Adjaye spilled the beans at Art Basel in June about a limited-edition vinyl album that he has made in collaboration with his brother Peter, A.K.A. the musician A.J. Kwame. The siblings have been collaborating for more than a decade, with Peter creating ten soundscapes in response to Davids architectural works (side B includes PeaceSphere, linked to Davids Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo). The album, Dialogues, was released in partnership with Londons Vinyl Facto
  
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• The water's lovely: eerie Slovakian swimming pools – in pictures

  20-07-2016 08:00
  
  Slovakian photographer Mária Švarbová stages atmospheric shots of pastel-hued swimming pools, full of pristine waters and blood-red bathing caps Continue reading...
  
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• Frida Kahlo: why we can't look away from the world's first selfie superstar

  20-07-2016 05:06
  
  The Mexican artist’s works depicted her dreams, pain and feminism – but she also understood the power of performance
  It’s before 10am on a Tuesday but dozens are already lining up outside the Art Gallery of New South Wales, waiting for the gallery to let them into its latest blockbuster exhibition, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Most of them are here for Kahlo, the iconoclastic Mexican artist who died aged 47 after a life marred by disability and whose work – inspired by i
  
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• Chief Financial Officer at the Seattle Art Museum

  20-07-2016 03:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Invitation to Apply to join the leadership team of the Seattle Art Museum, the premier art museum in the Pacific Northwest.
  Seattle Art MuseumChief Financial OfficerCompensation: $150,000 – $180,000 DOQ
  Invitation to Apply
  Through art, the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) enriches lives and engages diverse communities. As the leading visual art institution in the Pacific Northwest, SAM draws on its global collections, powerful exhibitions, and dynamic programs to provide unique educational resourc
  
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• Are You A Good Listener? Here’s What Listening Means

  20-07-2016 01:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Good listening is much more than being silent while the other person talks. To the contrary, people perceive the best listeners to be those who periodically ask questions that promote discovery and insight. These questions gently challenge old assumptions, but do so in a constructive way.”
  
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• William Eggleston: Portraits review – momentous, trivial, marvellous

  20-07-2016 01:01
  
  National Portrait Gallery, London
  Whether photographing celebrities or busboys, Eggleston’s work is both exact and indifferent, getting under your skin and changing how you see the world
  Even if it is just a tract of Tennessee land, or a ceiling, or some trash on the ground, everything is a portrait in William Eggleston’s work. A portrait less of a moment than of a place and an age. Egglestone never diminishes what he sees but somehow enlarges both the momentous and the trivial. Some
  
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