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• Babak Ghazi at Arcadia Missa, London

  26-07-2016 23:35 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Babak Ghazi: Babak Ghazi” is on view at Arcadia Missa in London through Saturday, August 29.
  
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• Talking about our generation: photo show celebrates Chinese artists of the 1980s

  26-07-2016 23:25
  
  The late 1980s and early 1990s were a heady time of transition in China, particularly for its then nascent avant-garde art scene. The Mao-era restrictions placed upon culture had only been lifted a few years earlierand then not entirelyand the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown in the summer of 1989 cast a pall on newfound freedoms.The photographer Xiao Quan captured that era through black and white portraits of many of Chinas artistic pioneers, now on display in the exhibition Our Generat
  
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• End Of An Era: The Last VCR-Maker Quits Production

  26-07-2016 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The VCR itself was outmoded by the DVD player in 2001. That’s the year that people started watching more DVDs than VHS cassettes. So, while it was refreshing to see that VCRs had made it this far into the 21st century, it was interesting that it was eight years after the very inventor of the term had given up on the technology.”
  
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• San Francisco museums board president Dede Wilsey steps down

  26-07-2016 23:00
  
  Early this week, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the organisation that runs the de Young Museum and Legion of Honor, announced that Dede Wilsey, the 20-year president and four-year CEO of its board, would step down.
  Wilsey was at the center of a controversy involving a former employee, chief financial officer Michele Gutierrez, who was recently awarded $2m in a lawsuit that claimed Wilsey fired her for exposing the boards decision to spend almost a half million dollars on a former emplo
  
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• MTA opens platform for artists

  26-07-2016 23:00
  
  Would seeing some sculpture ease your morning commute? New Yorkers may soon find out as the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) it due to adorn 31 subway stations in all five boroughs with new works of art as part of a five-year, $27bn improvement project. Although no artists or projects have yet been announced, MTA Arts and Design, which is overseeing the art projects, put out an open call for submissions for five stations on the N and Q lines in Queens. The artists awarded with a commission
  
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• Meet Udnie, Picabia’s muse and America’s first supermodel

  26-07-2016 23:00
  
  Who was Udnie? The question plagued scholars of Francis Picabia for years as they searched for the mysterious subject of his 1913 painting Udnie (Jeune fille amricaine; Danse), the centrepiece of a survey of the artists work at the Kunsthaus Zrich (until 25 September; the show heads to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in November but the catalogue is already published). Thanks to James Bones new book, The Curse of Beauty, the riddle may at last have been solved.The book is a biography of the
  
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• ‘Mad ambience’ of 1960s Mali depicted in Malick Sidibé’s first major UK solo show

  26-07-2016 23:00
  
  The celebrated Malian photographer Malick Sidib, who died in April aged 80, is to have his first major solo show in the UK this autumn. Sidib rose to fame with his black-and-white images chronicling Malis pop culture in the decades after the country gained independence in 1960. He went on to become the first photographer and the first African artist to receive a Gold Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2007.A selection of 45 photographssome of them depicting nightlife in the Malian capital of Bamako
  
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• Artist Rashid Johnson joins Guggenheim’s board of trustees

  26-07-2016 23:00
  
  This month, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation appointed the multidisciplinary American artist Rashid Johnson to its board of trustees. The announcement marks the first time in nearly five decades that an artist has been on the board, following the late baroness and abstract artist Hilla von Rebay, who was the founding director and curator of the museum in the 1930s.In a joint statement released to the press, William L. Mack, the chairman of the foundation, and Jennifer Blei Stockman, the pre
  
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• Orlan loses plagiarism case against Lady Gaga

  26-07-2016 22:39
  
  Pariss High Court has rejected the ensemble of claims of plagiarism and infringement of image rights that the French carnal artist Orlan brought against the American pop star Lady Gaga in June 2013 over the cover art for the musicians 2011 album Born This Way and the music video for its eponymous single, our sister paper Le Journal des Arts reports. Orlan was seeking $31.7m, 7.5% of the royalties from the album, which sold eight million copies worldwide.The suit mainly centred around two sculptu
  
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• Marina Abramović says having children would have been ‘a disaster for my work’

  26-07-2016 22:16
  
  ‘I had three abortions,’ the performance artist told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. ‘One only has limited energy in the body, and I would have had to divide it’The performance artist Marina Abramović said she has had three abortions during her life because having children would have been “a disaster for her work”. In an interview with the German newspaper Tagesspiegel translated by ArtNet, she said that children hold women back in the art world. Related: Mar
  
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• What Sceince Knows About The Accuracy Of Trusting Your Gut For Decisions

  26-07-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We humans are oddly fond of trusting our guts. Well, that might not be such a great idea: The same people more likely to go with intuition over rational thought are worse judges of others’ emotions, according to new research.”
  
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• Can A Brain Scan Tell What You’re Thinking? (Here’s What We Know So Far)

  26-07-2016 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To see if they could actually identify such patterns, the team had 80 people solve a series of math problems while lying in an fMRI scanner. Using a mix of otherwise standard methods from computer science and neuroscience, they identified a sequence of brain-activation patterns corresponding to encoding a problem, planning a solution, making the necessary computations, and providing a response.”
  
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• WOCHIPODA TO SEE YET ANOTHER YEAR IN TANZANIA BY ZUHURA SENG’ENGE.

  26-07-2016 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After continuously hosting vibrant poetry events, once again poets in Dar es Salaam seize the opportunity to honour another exceptional affair, the second World Children’s Poetry Day (WoChiPoDa) at the famous readership, Soma Book Cafe, at 53 Mlingotini Circle, Regent Estate.
   
  The initiative was started in 2014 by a German Author of Children’s Poetry books, Poet Laureate Gloria D. Gonsalves, aiming at instilling the love of poetry to children. It is a world event dedicated to c
  
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• Morgan Lehman Gallery Moving to New Location, on West 24th Street

  26-07-2016 19:39 via artnews.com
  New York’s Morgan Lehman Gallery announced today that it will be moving to a new location, at 534 West 24th Street in Chelsea.The ground floor space will be designed by the interior-design firm Andrew Ong, and will open on September 8 with solo … Read More
  
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• Killing Us Softly: The Art Career of Suicide’s Alan Vega

  26-07-2016 18:39 via artnews.com
  Alan Vega–the singer for the influential punk duo Suicide who passed away last week at age 78–was also an important visual artist, albeit with a slightly quieter persona. Vega was in fact an artist first and a frontman second. He … Read More
  
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• Mobile for the Moment, Swiss Institute Will Stage Shows in Temporary Space in TriBeCa

  26-07-2016 17:36 via artnews.com
  On Sunday, New York’s Swiss Institute officially ended its nearly five-year stint at 18 Wooster Street in SoHo, making way for the return of local dealer and landlord Jeffrey Deitch, who will reopen his gallery there in September. The Swiss Institute has yet to reveal … Read More
  
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• Mobile for the Moment, Swiss Institute Will Stage Shows at Temporary Space in TriBeCa

  26-07-2016 17:36 via artnews.com
  On Sunday, New York’s Swiss Institute officially ended its nearly five-year stint at 18 Wooster Street in SoHo, making way for the return of local dealer and landlord Jeffrey Deitch, who will reopen his gallery there in September. The Swiss Institute has yet to reveal … Read More
  
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• A Long-Overdue Carol Rama Retrospective Stuns at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin

  26-07-2016 16:35 via artnews.com
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• ‘I’m Interested in the Cosmetics of the Body’: A Talk With Justin Adian

  26-07-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Justin Adian is a New York-based artist who was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He has had solo exhibitions at Skarstedt Gallery and Almine Rech Gallery, among other places. His work can currently be seen in the “Puff Pieces” group show at … Read More
  
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• A New Prize, Named for Donald Judd and David Hume, Will Award $39,400 and a Residency for Work on ‘Seriously Neglected Topics’

  26-07-2016 15:21 via artnews.com
  Gottfried Boehm is the first recipient of the honor. Read More
  
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• Morning Links: S. H. Raza Edition

  26-07-2016 14:41 via artnews.com
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• St Paul's to unveil new Bill Viola video work of Mary carrying body of Jesus

  26-07-2016 11:00
  
  A large-scale installation by the artist will be a companion piece to his Martyrs, which was unveiled in 2014A large-scale video installation by artist Bill Viola of Mary carrying the body of Jesus will be unveiled at St Paul’s Cathedral.The permanent project, entitled Mary, will be a companion piece to the American artist’s Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water), which was unveiled in the south quire aisle of the cathedral in 2014. Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.25.16

  26-07-2016 08:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Does arts policy require quantification?
  The NEA has posted a very interesting interview between their Sunil Iyengar and the critic Leon Wieseltier. It raises interesting questions about the role of measurement in arts policy, and so here is something of … read more
  AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2016-07-25non-majority rules
  We live in a democratic culture – in so many aspects of our day-to-day existence, there is at least the perception that the majority should rule.&n
  
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• Untitled(there’s a crazy man in the park killing children. he rapes them. he likes to see them die slowly. he uses a knife. they say he is the catholic church.)

  26-07-2016 02:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  walk to the presidio, to an avenue divided by the wilderness. addicts, alcoholics,  patients with brain disorders and therapists dwell there. they think about what they are going to say. i like to be there to listen. i don’t want to lead anyone. i’m not always still. i move when i see someone. i look at them if i have something inside me. they never meet my gaze. she said that we had had the same conversation. she said that she had a name like mine. it was difficult to remember
  
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• What Makes A Great Museum? (We Asked The Insiders)

  26-07-2016 00:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the public imagination, museums have been transformed from cultural destinations into leisure ones, and there has been a global rise in visitor numbers.”
  
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• Artist takes on the American prison industrial complex at Alcatraz

  26-07-2016 00:38
  
  An exhibition that takes on the US penal system opens on Tuesday, 26 July, on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, the site of the notorious former federal prison.
  Shortening: Making Irrational Rational (until 15 January 2017) features the work of the artist Nelson Saiers, who has a doctorate in mathematics and incorporates the field into his work. Saiers has chosen a unique material to addresses the countrys correctional problem: American football ephemera. The artists chosen material is base
  
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