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• Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony As Contemporary Art Piece

  08-08-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The opening ceremony succeeded in restoring a human face to a country that has been translated into a laundry list of unfixable problems. As populist as it was necessarily prettified, the event was in tune with the global mood that has grown weary of technocrats, elites and all the other self-serving saviors who talk a good game but never seem to improve the status quo.”
  
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• The mystery underneath a Degas down under

  08-08-2016 23:00
  
  The existence of an earlier portrait beneath Edgar Degass Portrait de femme (Portrait of a Woman, around 1876-80), in the collection of Australias National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, has been known for decades. But a group of scientists at the Australian Synchrotron now have a good guess at who is underneath: Emma Dobigny, one of Degass favourite models, who worked with him from 1869-70.
  The team scanned the painting using a rapid, non-invasive, high-resolution X-ray fluorescence (XRF) s
  
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• Middle East goes West: show brings Saudi artists to San Francisco

  08-08-2016 23:00
  
  Who knew contemporary art from Saudi Arabia could have such a strong feminist edge? That is one of the surprises awaiting visitors to Genera#ion: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia in San Francisco, a show running 11 August to 6 September at Minnesota Street Projects, the new gallery complex in the scruffy Dogpatch neighbourhood of San Francisco.There isnt much presence of Middle Eastern contemporary art in America generally and in particular on the West Coasttheres more happening in New York,
  
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• How The Guitar Fell Out Of Favor In Popular Music

  08-08-2016 22:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the end of the ’80s, rock accounted for more than 40 percent of U.S. music sales, and guitarists still strutted the stage like kings. Yet by the year 2000, rock had fallen below 25 percent of the market, and rap artists were proving, week after week, that hit songs didn’t need any guitar.”
  
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• Raymond Pettibon at Sadie Coles HQ, London

  08-08-2016 22:18 via artnews.com
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• Jens Hoffmann clarifies: ‘I am not leaving the Jewish Museum’

  08-08-2016 22:00
  
  Jens Hoffmann, who is stepping down as deputy director of New Yorks Jewish Museum as Artnews reported last week, has clarified what his new role as director of special exhibitions and public programmes means for him and for the museum. I am not leaving the Jewish Museum, Hoffmann said in an email to The Art Newspaper. I am relinquishing some of my administrative responsibilities so that I can have a more flexible schedule and focus more on exhibition making and writing. Among the first of these
  
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• And Now: Just a Bunch of Pictures of Ivanka Trump With Mediocre Art

  08-08-2016 21:54 via artnews.com
  What else can I tell you? It’s August and no one’s really paying attention anyway. Saturday Night Fever! 💃🏻 A photo posted by Ivanka Trump (@ivankatrump) on Jan 9, 2016 at 10:29pm PST I’m aware that my acknowledging the idiocy … Read More
  
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• Miami’s Gallery Diet Renames Itself Nina Johnson, Announces Upcoming Show of Paintings by Seth Cameron

  08-08-2016 21:50 via artnews.com
  Late last year, Miami-based Gallery Diet moved from Wynwood to larger premises in Little Haiti. Since then, the gallery has held a Nicolas Lobo solo exhibition, and gave the 93-year-old artist and filmmaker Jonas Mekas his Miami gallery debut. Needless to say it’s been … Read More
  
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• Rachel Uffner Gallery Now Reps Shara Hughes

  08-08-2016 20:14 via artnews.com
  Rachel Uffner Gallery, which is located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, announced today that it now represents artist Shara Hughes.Hughes, who recently had highly acclaimed solo exhibition at Marlborough Chelsea is known for her vibrant and distorted landscapes and interior … Read More
  
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• Aby Rosen Erects Anti-Trump ‘Vote Your Conscience!’ Sign in SoHo

  08-08-2016 19:46 via artnews.com
  Aby Rosen—the art collector and developer who booted the Four Seasons from the Seagram Building, and recently gave us a hotel on “the most interesting street in SoHo”—has erected a gigantic sign on his property at 337 Lafayette Street in Manhattan declaring “Vote … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s Announces $89 M. Gain for Second Quarter of 2016

  08-08-2016 18:04 via artnews.com
  In a quarterly earnings call this morning, Sotheby’s CEO Tad Smith announced that the auction house would report $89 million in net income for the second quarter of 2016, an increase over the same period of 2015 even amid a … Read More
  
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• The street artist 'translating' graffiti tags into digital typeface

  08-08-2016 18:03
  
  City links: Making graffiti legible, celebrating Mumbai’s art deco heritage, investigating the Olympic legacy in host cities and making Copenhagen look like Tokyo all feature in this week’s roundup of the best city stories from the webUrban graffiti has long been a divisive issue – with many classing it as illegal defacement of private property or an eyesore, while others champion its artistic and self-expressive value. Though one arm of the practice has become classified as &l
  
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• Elizabeth Dee Will Open Harlem Space on September 24

  08-08-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  Ah, summer! Everyone is at the beach and in the mountains, running along the sands, scuba diving, and windsurfing, an ice-cold frozen margarita, piña colada, or daiquiris in hand. But the new art season awaits. It is sneaking up on us. … Read More
  
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• A City of Contradictions: Around Rio de Janeiro’s Art Scene During the Run-Up to the 2016 Olympics

  08-08-2016 15:57 via artnews.com
  Most people, when they think of Rio de Janeiro, think of its sweeping beaches, inland lagoons, and tree-fringed mountains. But while the idea of Rio as fabulous tropical city can be apprehended, appropriated, amplified, and even fetishized, it’s just an … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Volcano Edition

  08-08-2016 15:25 via artnews.com
  “Whoops!” The New York Times notes that there has been “a recent series of disastrous encounters between humans and historical, natural and artistic exhibits that resulted in the art or displays being defaced, punctured or broken because of curiosity, clumsiness … Read More
  
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• Mark Wallinger at the Freud Museum review – mirror mirror on the ceiling

  08-08-2016 13:47
  
  Freud Museum, London
  The British artist transforms Sigmund Freud’s study into a Dalí-inspired hall of mirrors for a meta-surrealist look at art, psychoanalysis and self-obsession Related: Full Marks: Mark Wallinger's ID runs rampant in his new show When Salvador Dalí visited Sigmund Freud in London in 1938, he showed the father of psychoanalysis his Metamorphosis of Narcissus. It is a painting about reflection. In the Greek myth of Narcissus, as told in Ovid’s Latin poe
  
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• Russian archaeologists uncover ancient Persian stele inscribed with a message from King Darius I

  08-08-2016 12:51
  
  An archeological expedition sponsored by the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska has announced the discovery of a stele with a signature in the name of Persian King Darius I in the center of Phanagoria, the remains of an ancient Greek city near Crimea and the Black Sea.
  Vladimir Kuznetsov, the director of the Phanagoria Historical and Archeological Museum-Preserve and of the Phanagoria expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences described it as a landmark find th
  
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• London’s V&A buys rare Hans Coper bird bowl

  08-08-2016 12:47
  
  A ceramic bowl made by the German artist Hans Coper has been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, after a successful fundraising campaign secured the rare piece. The 1950s ceramic, which was subject to a temporary export ban last year, was purchased in memory of the journalist Annabel Freyberg.
  Freyberg died of cancer in December 2013, aged 52; she was the arts editor of the Evening Standard newspaper from 1999 to 2002, and also held senior editorial positions at Worl
  
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• Prom 30 and 31 review: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and National Youth Orchestra of Scotland

  08-08-2016 12:05
  
  'One seldom sees an audience erupt with such spontaneous delight'
  
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• Syria before the war: nomads and foundry workers in Berlin photo exhibition

  08-08-2016 11:32
  
  Whether he is portraying a group of old men playing cards at the Thieves Market in Damascus or a girl drawing water from the tranquil blue Euphrates, Mohamad Al Roumi shows us a side of Syria that is far from the images we have got used to seeing in the news.
  His exhibition at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Contrast Syria, combines photographs of the nomadic tribes of the northeastern steppes from the 1970s to 1990s with images of workers in the deprived fringes of Damascus and Aleppo in the ye
  
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• Back to art school: Grayson Perry and Gillian Wearing meet tomorrow's stars

  08-08-2016 08:00
  
  They are the art stars of tomorrow. So what are they making? Slime fountains and love machines, find Grayson Perry and Gillian Wearing as they visit two degree shows – and recall their own student daysGrayson Perry visits Chelsea, the art school that turned him downI took a bit of acid at the time of my degree show but it didn't helpEveryone I meet is doing what we were doing: trying to understand artI had my first solo show in an old betting shop. My heart was beating so fast I couldn't t
  
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• Untitled(The Black Kid With A Man’s Face)

  08-08-2016 00:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  he saw that he was the one they were looking for. they said he was the black man they were looking for. he was not black. he was brown. they said he was brown. he was scared for the first time in his life. he knew youtube and entertainers on television were assimilating the hardcore violence done to blacks so that nothing was done about it. it was being processed and accepted. it would only make it easier for them to kill him.      have i seen that black kid with a man’
  
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