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• Turmoil at Honolulu’s Bishop Museum

  24-07-2016 23:00
  
  The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Hawaii, which holds the worlds largest and most important collection of cultural artefacts and natural history specimens from the Pacific Basin and Oceania, has seen some challenging times. Following a scandal over the alleged misuse of funds by its former director, the institutions finances remain perilous and researchers claim that much of the collection is inaccessible, leading to fears that some pieces might have disappeared.  Founded in 1889 by a lo
  
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• Shanghai Project to launch in September as community event, not art exhibition

  24-07-2016 23:00
  
  Amid reports of poor planning, Shanghai Project, a multi-disciplinary biennial organised by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Yongwoo Lee that was scheduled to open at the Himalayas Museum in September, has shifted its focus from an art exhibition to a community-based event. Its first phase, to launch that month instead, includes interactive pavilions, pop-up libraries, and public forums, while the exhibition itself has been moved to April 2017.Shanghai Project has restructured its priority from exhibitio
  
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• Louvre-Lens to restore Le Brun lost after the French Revolution

  24-07-2016 23:00
  
  An important picture by the 17th-century French court painter Charles Le Brun that was missing for more than two centuries is being restored at the Louvre-Lens museum before going on show at the Louvre in Paris later this year.The circular painting Christ in the Garden of Olives was commissioned by the Marquise du Plessis-Bellire, a leading patroness of the arts under Louis XIV, in around 1660. It was later bought by the king.
  This was a hugely successful painting, says Nicolas Milovanovic, the
  
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• Like Ike? Toledo Museum of Art decodes the fine art of political persuasion

  24-07-2016 23:00
  
  As an already contentious presidential election heats up, the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Ohio has staged an exhibition that deciphers political advertising. I Approve This Message: Decoding Political Ads (until 8 November) includes over 50 ads, from the first ever television spot aired in 1952 to those from the 2012 presidential electionall projected onto the 7000-sq. foot gallery space. The show is aimed at timeliness: it opened days before the Republican and Democratic national conventions
  
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• Joint London exhibition for Norwegian royal and A-ha star

  24-07-2016 23:00
  
  Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway, a keen artist, will show her latest artistic efforts at the Paul Stolper gallery in London this autumn (28 September-15 October). The arty royal has made a portfolio of ten prints in collaboration with the artist Magne Furuholmenformerly of the pop group A-haentitled Texture. Her Majesty has already been making editions of prints for the past five years, [which are] etchings of her own photography from walks in nature. Furuholmen took these close-ups of rock s
  
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• This Week In Audience, Virtual Versus Real Edition

  24-07-2016 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Is it possible that the virtual museum experience could beat the in-person visit?… After ten years, mixed verdict on whether HD streaming builds arts audiences… We need a new definition of selling music to reflect new audience realities… Will Pokemon Go change the ways we use public spaces?… We may have just seen Facebook streaming video’s breakthrough moment.
  
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• Editor’s Picks: Five Stories You Shouldn’t Miss, Factually Challenged Edition

  24-07-2016 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This week: How did our culture get to the point we don’t trust facts?… Are artists actually detrimental to neighborhoods?… Our notions of “greatness” need an overhaul… Europe’s new cultural paradigm desperately needs artists… Are donors to museum building projects do their museums a disservice?
  
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• Making Reality TV A Lot More Real

  24-07-2016 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I actually cried from happiness… because I always wanted to be on TV. Because I wanted to be like the regular people on TV.”
  
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• The 78-Year-Old Former Gardener To Marlon Brando Who’s Suddenly An Art Star

  24-07-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What’s always kept me going is people coming to my studio and enjoying the work. … But now I know my work will have a legacy. My work will live.”
  
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• Locavores Love Farms In Theory, But Practice Is Quite Different

  24-07-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Farmers will continue to rely on off-farm income to pay their bills. They will choose loan payments over savings accounts, chicken feed over dental care. They will face the heartbreaking decision to leave their farms.”
  
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• The Cleveland Orchestra And Museum Announce A Forever Residency

  24-07-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’ve been having all these community meetings, and it’s been great. There won’t be one net result. We’re going to be partners forever.”
  
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• Practicing Ballet In The DMZ

  24-07-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Soldier Kim Joo-hyeok, 23, describes the activity as a way to ‘stay calm and find balance, as well as build friendships with my fellow soldiers.'”
  
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• William Eggleston Portraits review – up close and quite personal

  24-07-2016 09:00
  
  National Portrait Gallery, London
  There’s more to Eggleston’s everyday, extraordinary, infinitely various photographs of American life in the 60s and 70s than he would have us believe, as this captivating show revealsThere is a magnificent photograph by William Eggleston of a teenage boy framed in a shaft of evening sunlight. He appears in profile, leaning forward about an arm’s length from the camera. The sun gilds his strong forearm, which pushes forward like a runner, and ca
  
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• How I drew a pop art masterpiece for the Beatles – a snip at just £50

  24-07-2016 01:02
  
  Fifty years on, Klaus Voormann tells the story behind Revolver’s psychedelic coverOpening with a sharp swipe at Harold Wilson’s supertax rate for big earners, it ends half an hour later in a revolutionary mystical soundscape sculpted from LSD and dope, and drenched in technical wizardry the like of which had never been heard before. In between, a dozen of the finest pop songs ever written – including Eleanor Rigby, Good Day Sunshine and Here, There and Everywhere – all wr
  
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