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• Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed accuses retailer Topman of plagiarism

  17-08-2016 23:55
  
  Fast fashion and art clash once again: less than a month after a group of over 40 artists and designers accused the Spanish mega retailer Zara of plagiarism, the Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed has publicly denounced the British retailer Topman over a shirt he claims plagiarises his work Oiling (of which there are three versions, all in public collections).
  Ahmed, known primarily for his hand-woven works that resemblethen warp traditional carpet motifs, told The Art Newspaper over email that Topm
  
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• Lena Henke at Salts, Birsfelden, Switzerland

  17-08-2016 23:37 via artnews.com
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• Jazz Vibraphone Great Bobby Hutcherson, 75

  17-08-2016 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hutcherson’s career took flight in the early 1960s, as jazz was slipping free of the complex harmonic and rhythmic designs of bebop. He was fluent in that language, but he was also one of the first to adapt his instrument to a freer postbop language, often playing chords with a pair of mallets in each hand.”
  
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• Sure TV Is More Diverse. But Here’s What Still Needs Doing

  17-08-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Progress isn’t solely a matter of narrowing the color gap on TV but of widening the types of stories that reach us.”
  
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• Art or absurdity: Mike Parr paints Pollock in his own blood in polarising career retrospective

  17-08-2016 22:00
  
  National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
  After an uncomfortable initial impression, the conceptual artist shows he still has the power to inspireThere was a moment at the opening of Mike Parr’s career survey exhibition, Foreign Looking, when I began to have grave doubts. The opening night crowd were pressed into one of the NGA’s downstairs galleries that had been stripped of everything except for Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles. We were watching Parr, frocked up in a white gown, ha
  
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• Have We Worn Out Our Swear Words?

  17-08-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In short, if English should lose its surprisingly small profane vocabulary set through overusage, we would be forced to invent new obscenities. That would be no easy task, given the polished perfection of what biology, time and chance has already bequeathed us.”
  
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• One Of America’s Top Oboists Lost Control Of His Fingers. This Is How He Fought And Won His Job Back

  17-08-2016 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The insidious thing was that when he was away from the oboe, his fingers worked just fine. It was only when he performed that his fingers got confused and stiffened. Practicing longer and harder only made the task-specific disorder worse.”
  
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• Close Encounters: The Danny Lyon Retrospective at the Whitney Museum Is Quietly Brilliant

  17-08-2016 20:09 via artnews.com
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• Theatre Critic Takes A Month Off, Relearns Why Theatre Is Important

  17-08-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Plays ask us to come together to engage with people and relationships presented just a few feet away — farther, if you have a balcony seat — while still allowing us the privacy that darkness confers. It offers community and anonymity at once. Additionally, a script or a streaming site won’t provide theater’s ephemerality, the sensation that each performance will never recur in exactly the same way.”
  
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• Jacqueline Morreau obituary

  17-08-2016 18:58
  
  Artist who contributed to the feminist art movement in BritainJacqueline Morreau, who has died aged 86, was best known for her distinctive drawing style and her contributions to the feminist art movement in Britain. She was not only a quiet revolutionary and a visionary, but also a pragmatist keenly aware of the problems faced by those attempting to conduct what she called the “triple life of the woman artist” in the 1970s, juggling the conflicting demands of motherhood, marriage and
  
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• Top of the Class: Around Boston’s Rich Network of University Art Galleries

  17-08-2016 18:18 via artnews.com
  On shows at the Rose Art Museum, MIT's List Visual Arts Center, Harvard's Cooper Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, and Davis Museum Read More
  
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• Norton Simon Museum can keep Cranachs, California judge decides

  17-08-2016 17:25
  
  A judge in US District Court in California has dismissed a claim by an heir to the Dutch dealer and collector Jacques Goudstikker to recover Lucas Cranachs Adam and Eve (around 1530), two paintings now at the Norton Simon Museum.
  The 15 August ruling in the decade-long case holds that the paintings became the property of the Dutch government after the Second World War. Judge John Walter faulted the Goustikker family and the firm that handled its post-war affairs for failing to meet mandated dea
  
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• Zai Kuning Will Represent Singapore at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  17-08-2016 16:59 via artnews.com
  Singapore’s National Arts Council announced today that Zai Kuning will represent its country at the 2017 Venice Biennale. June Yap, the first curator for the Guggenheim Museum’s UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, will organize the pavilion.Zai, the son of a … Read More
  
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• Museum Ludwig Hires Rita Kersting as Deputy Director

  17-08-2016 16:46 via artnews.com
  No doubt about it, this time in the middle of August is always a sleepy one on the international art beat, and so it is a nice surprise to have some news coming in from Germany this morning: Rita Kersting has been … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: David Edition

  17-08-2016 14:53 via artnews.com
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• Bedtime stories: show on the supernatural in Islamic art will feature Tipu Sultan’s 'dream diary'

  17-08-2016 10:00
  
  An 18th-century "dream diary" by a sultan in what is now present-day southern India is to go on public display for the first time in October.The volume, part of the British Library's Persian manuscripts collection, will be shown at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, as part of its forthcoming exhibition, Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernaturalthe first major British show exploring the place of the supernatural in Islamic art.The exhibition will tackle subjects including divination, ho
  
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• Marina Abramović responds to allegations of racism over comments about Indigenous Australians

  17-08-2016 08:42
  
  A 1979 diary entry, in which the artist wrote that Indigenous Australians ‘look like dinosaurs’, will be removed from the final version of her memoir
  New York-based performance artist Marina Abramović has attempted to clarify an inflammatory passage from an uncorrected proof of her forthcoming memoir, in which she refers to Indigenous Australians as “really strange and different” people, who “look terrible” and “look like dinosaurs”.A photo of
  
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• The Arab spring, Robert Lepage and a mass bed-in: how Singapore is rethinking festivals

  17-08-2016 06:32
  
  The Singapore International Festival of Arts is a six-week slow burn but a brief fling with key performances proves rewardingUnlike the prevalent model in the UK, the US and Australia, where festivals occur in hyper-concentrated bursts of creative energy, Ong Keng Sun builds his festival with a slow burn.Now in his third year as director of the Singapore International Festival of Arts (Sifa), Ong languorously stretches its 20 works out over a six-week period, itself proceeded by a “pre-fes
  
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• Google’s Computers Wrote A Song. Can Human Musicians Make It Good Music?

  17-08-2016 01:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Star asked Canadian musicians to try adapting the melody to a style of their choosing. How does a robo-composed tune sound in human hands?”
  
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• Harvard museums bring back the spirit of the Bauhaus

  17-08-2016 00:26
  
  The Bauhaus lives on near Boston with the launch of the Harvard University Art Museums comprehensive public database dedicated to Germanys all-encompassing Modern art and design school. The resource includes details on the museums collection of more than 32,000 works of art and items related to the Bauhaus, a chronology of the Weimar art school and a map detailing Bauhauss lingering presence in the Boston area.Harvard has a long connection with the Bauhaus. In 1930, Harvard undergraduates organ
  
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• Re-salers Attack: Harry Potter Producers Turn Away Large Number Of Resale Ticket Buyers

  17-08-2016 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The secondary ticket market is an industry-wide plague, and one which we as producers take very seriously,” Friedman and Callender said in a statement. “Our priority is to protect all our customers and we are doing all we can to combat this issue.”
  
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