Arts news

• Will Thomas Mann’s House In LA Be Torn Down?

  18-08-2016 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Perhaps the juggernaut of the real-estate market is destined to roll over the Mann house as it has over many other notable places. Worse things will have happened in the world. But for anyone who loves Mann’s work, or who cherishes the story of émigré culture in Los Angeles, it would be a crushing outcome.”
  
  Read more

• Three to see: Edinburgh Art Festival

  18-08-2016 23:00
  
  Damin Ortega likes making things, and relishes crafting objects out of clay. A show dedicated to the Mexican artist at the Fruitmarket Gallery (until 23 October) presents his experimental efforts with this earthy, organic material, from misshapen lumps that hang on vertical columns (Atmospheric Pressure, 2016) to glazed, painted mounds that rise from the ground (Icebergs, 2016). Abrasive Objects (2016), a collection of hand tools fabricated by Ortega, includes ancient Colombian corn-pounding im
  
  Read more

• All-female fire blazes at the Broad MSU

  18-08-2016 23:00
  
  The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (Broad MSU) will welcome the work of 27 female emerging artists from Chinasome of whom have never before shown in the United Statesin the exhibition Fire Within: a New Generation of Chinese Women Artists, due to open on 27 August (until 12 February 2017). Shifting power structures in the workplace and home, gender identity and changing perceptions of cultural dynamics within Chinas traditionally patriarchal society and in the wider
  
  Read more

• A feast for the senses: a new crop of museum restaurants go beyond the gallery walls

  18-08-2016 23:00
  
  The newly expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the new-ish Broad Museum in Los Angeles have more than a few things in common. They have sleek horizontal white buildings that pop against the blue California sky. They have holdings of big blue-chip artists in great depth, from Warhol to Koons. And now, they both have adventurous restaurants helmed by former head chefs of the Michelin-starred The French Laundry.Otium at the Broad opened last November under Timothy Hollingsworth, with cr
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Juan Dávila at Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile

  18-08-2016 22:41 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
  Read more

• Looking up from the couch: on Mark Wallinger's show at the Freud Museum in London

  18-08-2016 22:14
  
  In Self Reflection, Mark Wallingers installation at the Freud Museum in London, a one-liner multiplies into numerous readings. It is easy to describe: the artist has placed a mirror on the ceiling of Freuds study, doubling the room. Its almost impossible to add anything to the room, which is chockfull of collectibles, works of art, wood sculptures, books and furniture, including that famous couch. Instead of adding, Wallingers installation draws the eyes upward. From the mirrored ceiling, you s
  
  Read more

• Can Artifical Intelligence Learn From Romance Novels How To “Act” Human”

  18-08-2016 22:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Given that the final frontier in artificial intelligence calls for some form of consciousness, when it comes, it will almost certainly issue not from the source code of a programmer, but from the lab of a neuroscientist. Then, if romance novels play a role, it will be to ensure, as a true test of intelligence, that they are read not with indifference, but with delight or disdain.”
  
  Read more

• Are Culture And Cool Just Pretentious Constructs?

  18-08-2016 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s difficult not to feel as though we, as a culture, have reached a dead end, that our quest for authenticity has bred nothing more than a series of postures and attitudes that, if they hadn’t sprung up by themselves, would have been invented by market demographers anyway. Perhaps we are stuck in the age of “cool,” when all roads to larger causes inevitably circle back to the adolescent project of exalting the self.”
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Brazilian Artists Launch Huge Demonstrations Over Cuts To Culture

  18-08-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ocupa MinC began in May when Michel Temer became interim president and promptly announced that the government was going to deal with one of the worst budget deficits in years by absorbing the Ministry of Culture into the Ministry of Education. In response, thousands of artists and musicians occupied MinC buildings in at least 18 cities nationwide, camping out in tents and performing songs in protest.
  
  Read more

• When LA Glitz Met Europe’s Most Rigorous Intellectual Composers

  18-08-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Here, Californian naiveté and blatant commercialism butted heads with European rigor and elitism. This was a collision of worlds which never fully resolved or came to an agreeable integration, reflecting some of the fundamental fragmentation of Los Angeles. In this way, the peculiar contours of LA culture have made an indelible mark upon new music as a whole.”
  
  Read more

• What lies beneath

  18-08-2016 19:33
  
  The bones of those who have lived, died and been buried in the UK over the centuries feature in the fascinating exhibition Skeletons: Our Buried Bones which opens tomorrow at the Hunterian in Glasgow (19 August-8 January 2017). The showwhich is co-organised by the Wellcome Collection and the Museum of Londonthrows new light on the bodies that lie beneath, through scientific analyses (syphilis and rickets are some of the health hazards highlighted) and photographs revealing the whereabouts of th
  
  Read more

• Has Our Culture Become Trapped By Nostalgia For Something That Never Existed?

  18-08-2016 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Longing for the past is generally referred to as nostalgia – a gentle, tender feeling that might make these stories seem like nothing more than harmless sentimentality. But it is crucial to distinguish between wistful memories of grandma’s kitchen and belief in a prior state of cultural perfection.”
  
  Read more

• Bosch Was A Realist

  18-08-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There has never been a painter quite like Jheronimus van Aken, the Flemish master who signed his works as Jheronimus Bosch. His imagination ranged from a place beyond the spheres of Heaven to the uttermost depths of Hell, but for many of his earliest admirers the most striking aspect of his art was what they described as its ‘truth to nature.'”
  
  Read more

• We Revere The Intellectual Freedom Of Science. We Shouldn’t

  18-08-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The story of how Department of Defense mobilized science to help create our world exposes the lie for what it is and provides three difficult lessons that have to be learned if science is to evade the calamity it now faces.”
  
  Read more

• Riches To Rags: Secrets Of A Costume Distressor

  18-08-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The nicest thing you can say to Hochi Asiatico is that his work looks like hell. That’s because Mr. Asiatico is one of a small number of Broadway distressors, artisans who make costumes look beautifully bad. … Here, in four relatively easy steps, is Mr. Asiatico’s guide to D.I.Y. distressing.”
  
  Read more

• Aye Matey! Frank Benson on the Controversy Surrounding his New Public Sculpture in Bristol

  18-08-2016 17:59 via artnews.com
  While crafting Castaway—his life-size bronze statue of Alexander Selkirk, the 18th-century mariner who is said to be the inspiration behind Robinson Crusoe—for a public art commission in Bristol, England, Frank Benson said that he took great care to make sure … Read More
  
  Read more

• Did You Know The Rio Olympics Has An Artist In Residence?

  18-08-2016 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The program, which began this year, was intended to “open up Olympism and its values to the widest possible audience,” according to a statement by the Olympic committee.
  
  Read more

• The radical art of holding hands with strangers

  18-08-2016 17:13
  
  Think you know your neighbourhood? A city walk with a difference shows how something as simple as holding hands can be a political – even dangerous – actAs an artist who regularly invites complete strangers to hold hands in public, I could not ignore the incident at a Sainsbury’s in Hackney, east London, last week, when two gay men were asked to leave by a security guard. Much of what happened makes for depressing reading: the woman customer who complained about their same-sex
  
  Read more

• ‘The Good Old Days’ Isn’t Just A Harmless Illusion

  18-08-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nostalgia’s dark side … is badly underestimated, and wreaks havoc not only in politics but also medicine and anthropology. Far from being harmless, [it] is a virulent falsehood that infects those whose intellectual defences have been weakened by fear and insecurity. It is easily weaponised by power-hungry propagandists who seek to replace nuanced discourse with patriotic platitudes.”
  
  Read more

• The Fourth Remake Of ‘A Star Is Born’ Is Coming. Bad Idea

  18-08-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The movie has been made three times (in 1937, 1954, and 1976), each time to diminishing critical returns, with barely any variation in story, and yet with every new Hollywood generation someone looks to try again. On Tuesday, the fourth version was announced: Lady Gaga will play the ingénue and Bradley Cooper her love interest, with the latter also writing and directing, and presumably trying to find a new angle to justify the remake.” David Sims looks at why the story is unl
  
  Read more

• LACMA Art + Film Gala to Honor Robert Irwin, Kathryn Bigelow

  18-08-2016 16:17 via artnews.com
  The Los Angeles County Museum’s annual Art + Film Gala—a fundraiser for the museum that allows the art world to hobnob even closer than usual with Hollywood bigwigs, thanks in part to co-chair Leonardo DiCaprio, who manages to buy a … Read More
  
  Read more

• ‘He’s Entering the Canon’: Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Will Issue Catalogue Raisonné This Fall With Yale

  18-08-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Richard Diebenkorn, the versatile artist best known for his association with the Bay Area Figurative Movement and later for his “Ocean Park” series of paintings, will have his catalogue raisonné published this fall by Yale University Press in conjunction with … Read More
  
  Read more

• Ellipsis – The Long, Strange History Of A Strange Punctuation Mark

  18-08-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The punctuation mark of the ellipsis is perhaps the most unusual mark in the English language, for punctuation marks are designed to convey meaning by indicating relationships between ideas, but the ellipsis does the exact opposite.” What’s more, those three little dots date back centuries before Shakespeare.
  
  Read more

• Morning Links: Rihanna Standing Beside Headless Rihanna Statue Edition

  18-08-2016 15:24 via artnews.com
  Must-read stories from around the art world Read More
  
  Read more

• Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra Says Lionel Bringuier Won’t Be Staying On As Chief Conductor

  18-08-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The young French conductor, who turns 30 next month and who assisted both Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, succeeded David Zinman in Zurich in 2014. The decision not to renew Bringuier’s contract, which expires in 2018, was widely expected in the city. (in German; Google Translate version here)
  
  Read more

• Huge 1,700-Year-Old Mosaic Found In Good Condition In Cyprus

  18-08-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 36-foot-long, 13-feet-wide work cements scenes from one public stadium in colorful stone, featuring four chariots each pulled by springing horses of various hues and commandeered by assertive drivers.”
  
  Read more

• Prom 43: Argerich/WE Divan/Barenboim, Royal Albert Hall, review: 'Proms don't come more stellar than this'

  18-08-2016 14:58
  
  Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra would have comfortably filled the hall on their own, while Martha Argerich could have filled it three times over
  
  Read more

• Norton Simon Museum Can Keep Cranachs Looted By Nazis, Rules Judge

  18-08-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “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 Cranach’s 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.”
  
  Read more

• New affordable-art website Collectionair backed by curatorial big-hitters

  18-08-2016 14:31
  
  High-profile art professionals, including Jean-Hubert Martinthe former director of the Muse National dArt Moderne at the Centre Pompidouhave thrown their weight behind a new website offering works for sale priced under $10,000.The new company, Collectionair, focuses mainly on established and emerging artists from under-represented art scenes, enabling buyers to browse more than 20 virtual exhibitions featuring artists from countries such as Iran, Oman and Mozambique.Collectionair was co-founded
  
  Read more

• Barnes And Noble’s Board Fires CEO

  18-08-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a terse statement that lacked any attempt at corporate spin, the company said that ‘the board of directors determined that Mr. Boire is not a good fit for the organization and that it was in the best interest of all parties for him to leave the company.’ … [He] is the third chief executive to leave the troubled company in just three years.”
  
  Read more

• NPR Website Drops Reader Comments

  18-08-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “NPR introduced public comments to its website eight years ago, when many of today’s most popular venues for digital interaction didn’t yet exist or were in their infancy. Since then, we’ve explored and developed many options for strengthening those connections. Some of these methods have proven invaluable. Others less so.”
  
  Read more

• Oops! We Went All-Out To Become The UK City Of Culture, But We Have Nowhere To Put The Tourists

  18-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nearly a million visitors are expected to attend events in Hull as part of the landmark culture festival, which includes theatre, dance, music and other arts performances. However, the city centre’s hotels only have about 1,000 beds – so residents are being encouraged to rent out their spare rooms to tourists.”
  
  Read more

• I’m Not Scared Of The Edinburgh Fringe, Says New CEO Of Edinburgh Fringe

  18-08-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Shona McCarthy, on whether she’s daunted by the pace of the Fringe’s growth: “I’m not intimidated, and continuous growth is not our primary objective. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe should be whatever size it needs to be to accommodate the artists from all continents who want to have a voice here, and the venues who want to host them.”
  
  Read more

• Philadelphia’s Academy Of Music Gets A (Barely Visible) Facelift

  18-08-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s easy to spot the splashier renovations to the Academy of Music from the past couple of decades – the meticulously restored ballroom, or the enormous crystal chandelier in the main auditorium that now closely resembles the original. Less obvious is some of the work being done this summer on the building, which has been, since 1857, the city’s prime gathering place with a sense of occasion.”
  
  Read more

• Iraqi artists commissioned to create works about migrancy for Çanakkale Biennial

  18-08-2016 13:28
  
  Two leading Iraqi artists have been commissioned to create new works for the anakkale Biennial in Turkey, which this year focuses on the concept of homeland and the ongoing refugee crisis that has seen millions of people pour through Turkey en route to Europe. The city of anakkale is close to the main migrant routes from Syria across the Aegean Sea to Greece.
  The painter and ceramicist Salam Atta Sabri has produced a new series of drawings in response to the widespread destruction of palm tree
  
  Read more

• London mayor Sadiq Khan ditches Olympicopolis name, but presses ahead with East London cultural hub

  18-08-2016 12:36
  
  Sadiq Khan, who took over as the mayor of London in May, will be announcing plans to develop the cultural quarter on the 2012 Olympic site in east London. Speaking to The Art Newspaper, the Labour mayor said he has dropped the name Olympicopolis for the project.
  The working title is now East Londons Heritage and Cultural Quarter, although it may well later get a snappier name. Boris Johnson, Khans Conservative predecessor, had coined the term Olympicopolis to chime with Albertopolisthe museum q
  
  Read more

• Trump’s rump roasted

  18-08-2016 10:33
  
  Unsuspecting city-dwellers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Cleveland, and New York woke up to a sight they wont soon forget (although many will probably wish they could): Donald Trump naked. A series of life-size nude sculptures depicting the Republican candidate for US president in all his splotchy, spider-veined glory popped up around the country Thursday morning. The California street art group Indecline took credit for the works, titled The Emperor Has No Balls, and released a film
  
  Read more

• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.17.16

  18-08-2016 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bobby Hutcherson: 1941-2016
  Bobby Hutcherson, whose vibraphone playing developed deep and complex harmonies, died on Monday at home in Montara, California. He was 75. When Hutcherson came to prominence in the early 1960s, he was in the forefront … read more
  AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-08-17From England Via Florida With Love
  The Sarasota Ballet presents an all-Ashton program at the Joyce Theater. … read more
  AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-08-17Groundhog Day, The (Buddhis
  
  Read more

• Pablo Bicasso? The global masters of ballpoint art – in pictures

  18-08-2016 08:00
  
  In Ballpoint Art, writer Trent Morse gathers artists from around the world who show that ballpoint pens are for more than shopping lists and doodling Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Jeff Koons’s Gazing Ball sculpture at centre of legal tussle between art dealers

  18-08-2016 05:36
  
  Lawyers for Blue Art Limited, the London-based company owned by the Italian Renaissance dealer Fabrizio Moretti, filed an amended complaint Wednesday night (17 August) against the New York art dealer David Zwirner and his gallery, which Moretti says failed to deliver a work of art he bought for $2m. The new complaint comes after Zwirners motion to dismiss named the previously anonymous purchaser and called the lawsuit a case of buyers remorse. In response, Morettis recent court filings reveal t
  
  Read more

• Untitled (the fey white non profit visionary. he started his non profit:earthtrust.)

  18-08-2016 00:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  in portland oregon, as elsewhere, non profits compete to fund big idea projects. it isn’t dissimilar to artists competing for commissions from corporations. the egos involved are prickly.two men want to fund a 60 million dollar shelter in the pearl district.ecotrust has a 15 million warehouse in the pearl district that has a large freezer in it to store farmer’s meat so that it can be transported to other businesses.many in portland oregon, are not able to afford the rent and have le
  
  Read more

• Former French culture minister calls for halt to restoration of Galerie Vivienne

  18-08-2016 00:08
  
  The ongoing renovation of the Galerie Viviennea covered shopping passageway built in 1823 in Pariss second arrondissement near the Palais-Royalhas been publicly criticised by Jack Lang, who served as Frances minister of culture in the 1980s.
  Lang, now the head of the Institut du monde arabe in Paris, sent a letter to the current minister of culture Audrey Azoulay on 21 July calling on her to halt the 864,000 renovation, launched in January. He said the work will result in the definitive disappe
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUKnews on Twitter!