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• Right Before a Leap: ‘Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967’ at Hauser & Wirth in New York Is a Stunner

  28-07-2016 23:48 via artnews.com
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• Can Audiences Hooked On Binge-Watching TV Be Wooed To Binge-Reading Books?

  28-07-2016 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As TV dramas get better and better, book publishers are hoping to convert binge TV watchers into binge readers. Serialized books have a long history in publishing — Charles Dickens famously released many his novels in serial form.”
  
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• Our Digital Expanses Have Made Us Confidently Arrogant. Where’s The Value In Humility?

  28-07-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The internet and digital media have created the impression of limitless knowledge at our fingertips. But, by making us lazy, they have opened up a space that ignorance can fill.”
  
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• Turkey’s Çannakale Biennale to go ahead despite attempted coup

  28-07-2016 23:00
  
  Organisers of the fifth edition of the annakale Biennale in Turkey are to press ahead with the September event despite the failed coup of 15 July and its contentious aftermath, including continued security concerns after attacks at Istanbul Airport and elsewhere.Considering the 20th-century history of Turkey, the generations born in the 1940s and 50s have now seen four military coups, said the shows general art director, Beral Madra. Over past 50 years, the country has built up a significant he
  
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• Turkey’s Çannakale Biennale to forge ahead despite attempted coup

  28-07-2016 23:00
  
  Organisers of the fifth edition of the annakale Biennale in Turkey are to press ahead with the September event despite the failed coup of 15 July and its contentious aftermath, including continued security concerns after attacks at Istanbul Airport and elsewhere.We are determined to realise this biennial even under the current difficult conditions, said the shows general director, Beral Madra. Maybe some artists will be reluctant to comewhich we fully understandbut their works will represent th
  
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• Turkey’s Çanakkale Biennale to forge ahead despite attempted coup

  28-07-2016 23:00
  
  Organisers of the fifth edition of the anakkale Biennale in Turkey are to press ahead with the September event despite the failed coup of 15 July and its contentious aftermath, including continued security concerns after attacks at Istanbul Airport and elsewhere.We are determined to realise this biennial even under the current difficult conditions, said the shows general director, Beral Madra. Maybe some artists will be reluctant to comewhich we fully understandbut their works will represent th
  
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• Cincinnati Ballet Hires An Executive Director

  28-07-2016 22:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He’s Scott Altman, currently ED of Ballet West. “The executive director position has been vacant since Paul Kaine left the company in April 2008. Soon after, Victoria Morgan added the CEO role to her artistic responsibilities. In the course of one year, Morgan, working with staff and board, eliminated an $800,000 deficit. Since then, the company’s annual ticket revenue has grown more than 70 percent, while attendance has climbed nearly 30 percent. The company’s endowment,
  
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• Tom Hanks to be Honored at MoMA Film Benefit

  28-07-2016 21:14 via artnews.com
  Tom Hanks, the Oscar-winning actor and star of “Saving Private Ryan,” “Big,” “Cast Away,” and many other modern classics, will be honored at this year’s MoMA Film Benefit, which will be held in New York this November. Past honorees include … Read More
  
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• Hidden Treasures in Greenwich Village: A Visit to the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation

  28-07-2016 20:14 via artnews.com
  Is there a better time than summer in the city to hunt for new, treasure-filled places to visit? This year, the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation’s House and Studio flew to the top of my list. If you have never … Read More
  
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• The Frick Collection Elects Two New Members to Board of Trustees

  28-07-2016 18:55 via artnews.com
  The Frick Collection has announced the election of two new trustees to its board: Bradford Evans and Bernard Selz. Both Evans and Selz will bring “strong leadership backgrounds and financial acumen,” according to a press statement from trustee chairman Margot Bogert, Evans, a … Read More
  
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• BP extends culture sponsorship at four UK institutions

  28-07-2016 18:39
  
  The UK oil giant BP announced today that it will invest 7.5m in new sponsorship deals with four major British cultural institutions, continuing its long-standing relationships with the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Opera House and the Royal Shakespeare Company for another five years.BP has supported the British Museum for the past 20 years which has enabled the Museum to host magnificent exhibitions and events with a great public benefit, the British Museums director
  
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• Inti Guerrero Appointed Curator of Ireland’s EVA International Biennial

  28-07-2016 18:25 via artnews.com
  Ireland’s EVA International Biennial has appointed Inti Guerrero the curator of its 38th edition taking place in Limerick, Ireland from April 14 through July 8, 2018. As curator, Guerrero will help oversee the international open call for artist proposals that … Read More
  
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• Cate Blanchett to deliver artists’ manifestos at Park Avenue Armory

  28-07-2016 18:10
  
  The Park Avenue Armorys Drill Hall, which has seen many a regiment of National Guard soldiers practice military manoeuvres, will serve as a fitting platform for the premier of Manifesto (2015), the multi-screen film installation by the German filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt. The project, on view from 7 December to 8 January 2017, stars the Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett, who channels more than 50 artistic calls to action through 13 monologues that draw on the writings of artist groups
  
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• Eye of the Sixties by Judith Stein review – the bad salesman with excellent taste

  28-07-2016 17:54
  
  The art dealer Richard Bellamy isn’t exactly a household name. But he discovered the most celebrated names of the New York scene, a new biography revealsTwo complementary archetypes dominate the story of New York’s ascent to art world supremacy in the decades after the second world war: the inscrutable artist, from Andy Warhol to Jeff Koons, and the savvy dealer. It was Leo Castelli who perfected the latter role in the 1950s and 60s, though Larry Gagosian has since stretched it to an
  
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• Tate Modern welcomes 'extraordinary' Robert Rauschenberg goat

  28-07-2016 17:25
  
  Monogram, 1955-59, will be highlight of first major retrospective of American artist’s work since his death in 2008The stuffed Angora goat bound to a tyre and carefully positioned on a canvas along with a tennis ball and shoe heel is usually housed in a Swedish museum.It is considered something of a landmark work of art, an important painting-sculpture hybrid by the influential American artist Robert Rauschenberg, which is why Tate Modern is so delighted to be borrowing it for a major retr
  
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• How the Victorians brought famous artists back from the dead in seances

  28-07-2016 16:51
  
  The work of spiritualist Georgiana Houghton is leading the art world's re-evaluation of 19th-century art and the dawn of the abstract
  
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• Morning Links: Tag Clouds Edition

  28-07-2016 15:15 via artnews.com
  Banned ArtOver the past decade the Department of Veteran Affairs has spent $20 million on artwork in lieu of hiring more doctors according to research from two government spending watchdogs, prompting a U.S. senator to place “an immediate moratorium on … Read More
  
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• Editor

  28-07-2016 14:56
  The Burlington Magazine is the world's leading English language monthly publication devoted to the fine and decorative arts. Founded in 1903 by a group of art historians and connoisseurs that included Roger Fry, Bernard Berenson and Herbert Horne, The Burlington Magazine has appeared monthly without interruption ever since. It publishes concise, well-written articles based on original research, presenting art-historical discoveries and fresh interpretations.
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• Tehching Hsieh Will Rep Taiwan in Venice in 2017

  28-07-2016 14:44 via artnews.com
  Here is some heartening news to start the morning: Taiwan has tapped the great Tehching Hsieh to represent it at the 2017 Venice Biennale, according to ArtAsiaPacific.Hsieh, who is 65, is best known for a series of heroic yearlong performances … Read More
  
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• The 'human sensor' making Manchester's air pollution visible

  28-07-2016 14:38
  
  The hi-tech illuminated costumes worn by media artist Kasia Molga reveal changes in urban air pollution and bring together art and scienceHeads turn when media artist Kasia Molga and her performers walk the streets of Manchester. When they near buses belching diesel fumes, their futuristic capes and masks turn a bright red. Near a park they go green. Depending on the traffic pollution levels in the northern industrial city, their clothing pulses, flashes and changes colour from purple through to
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.27.16

  28-07-2016 10:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Recent Listening In Brief: Zeitlin On Shorter
  Denny Zeitlin, Solo Piano: Early Wayne (Sunnyside) Over the years, Zeitlin has made clear his affinity for Wayne Shorter’s compositions. In previous Sunnyside albums he explored … read more
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-07-27Community within
  As a community artist, I operate with the philosophy that creativity is a pledge to embrace and value one’s own existence and self-reflection is a process for changing awareness and behavior
  
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• Antoine Agoudjian's best photograph: an Armenian man dances for his lost son

  28-07-2016 09:00
  
  ‘Tears streamed down his face. He told me his son had died – his pride and joy – and that I looked just like him. I asked if he would dance for me’I was a dancer before I was a photographer. Born in France, the grandchild of Armenian genocide survivors, dance was one of the few ways I could connect with a homeland I had never known. When I danced as an Armenian peasant, I became an Armenian peasant. It was a way to animate the stories my grandparents told.Around 1985, I w
  
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• Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts review – a rainbow of agony and ecstasy

  28-07-2016 08:30
  
  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  They may look like props from a Harry Potter film, but the manuscripts in this sumptuous show are expressionist art, as full of emotion as a Van Gogh paintingImagine how it felt to be one of the last illuminators, a trained miniaturist still painting exquisite images in blue and gold, with your pots of ground cinnabar and antimony, in precious handwritten books as the printing press revolutionised Europe 500 years ago. Your craft was redundant now that German printe
  
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• Everything is illuminated: the wonder of medieval manuscripts – in pictures

  28-07-2016 08:00
  
  The Fitzwilliam Museum has brought together some dazzling, intricate manuscripts, whose colours foreshadow modern art … in the middle ages Continue reading...
  
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• 2017 Honolulu Biennial Names Ngahiraka Mason Curator and Announces Dates

  28-07-2016 00:05 via artnews.com
  More details on the first Honolulu Biennial have been released today, including the date and title for the inaugural edition of the arts festival, which will be the first of its kind in Hawaii when it launches in the spring … Read More
  
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• US Tourist Mistakenly Locked On Roof Of Milan Cathedral Overnight

  28-07-2016 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Police said the 23-year-old man told them that he was in the bathroom when security made a final pass, and found himself locked inside the landmark cathedral when he went to leave on Monday night. He decided not to create alarm and spent the night on the spired rooftop, reporting himself to authorities when they reopened on Tuesday.”
  
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