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• Peter Doig Is Victorious: Judge Rules Artist Did Not Paint Disputed Painting

  23-08-2016 23:46 via artnews.com
  Bringing to a close, at least for now, one of the strangest art-related lawsuits in recent years, a federal judge ruled today that Peter Doig did not create a painting its owner claimed the artist made years ago, as an … Read More
  
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• Chicago judge rules Peter Doig ‘absolutely did not paint’ disputed work

  23-08-2016 22:06
  The Chicago federal judge Gary Feinerman ruled on Tuesday that the artist Peter Doig absolutely did not paint the disputed work at the center of a long-running lawsuit.The suit was brought by the retired Canadian prison officer Robert Fletcher, who claimed a painting he bought in the 1970s from an inmate at Thunder Bay Correctional Center for $100 was made by a young Doig. The artist denies he painted the desert landscape, and Fletcher sued him in 2013, saying his disavowal negatively affected
  
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• Joep van Lieshout at De Pont Museum, Tilburg, the Netherlands

  23-08-2016 21:23 via artnews.com
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• Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery Expands Into Former Essex Flowers Space

  23-08-2016 20:22 via artnews.com
  New York’s Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery announced today in an email that it has expanded, adding exhibition space, a new glass storefront, and larger offices.The Lower East Side gallery’s space, at 54 Ludlow Street, had previously been somewhat cramped. With Essex … Read More
  
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• Scanner used to study the colour of stars reveals hidden images in Mexican manuscript

  23-08-2016 19:04
  
  A hyperspectral scanneran image analysis tool used by astrophysicists to study the pigments of unknown substances, such as the colour of starsmay be the key to deciphering ancient documents.
  In the Journal of Archaeology this month, researchers from the University of Oxfords Bodleian Libraries and universities in the Netherlands published their analysis of seven pages from one of the 20 surviving pre- and early-colonial Mexican manuscripts. The scanning revealed pictures and glyphs hidden under
  
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• Natalia Zuluaga Named Artistic Director of ArtCenter/South Florida

  23-08-2016 18:43 via artnews.com
  ArtCenter/South Florida has announced the hiring of Natalia Zuluaga as its new artistic director. In her new position, Zuluaga will manage artist residencies, community outreach, and programming, while also further developing the Miami-based nonprofit’s offerings.Prior to this appointment, Zuluaga served as … Read More
  
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• Fall Preview: Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World

  23-08-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  A concise guide for notable exhibitions through December Read More
  
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• Expo Chicago 2016 Announces Roster for Special Projects Sectors

  23-08-2016 17:57 via artnews.com
  Expo Chicago, that city’s annual contemporary art fair, announced the list of participants for its 2016 editions of In/Situ, In/Situ Outside, and Expo Projects. These sectors of the fair feature large-scale installations, and will be placed both at the fair and around … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Tom Wesselmann Edition

  23-08-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Another Dancer Joins The Pennsylvania Ballet Exodus

  23-08-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘It was a very easy decision,’ [Andrew] Daly said, surprising even himself, as he’d expected to dance for another 10 years. ‘I knew that if I stayed another year that I would’ve been emotionally completely destroyed.'”
  
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• Put 15 Musicians In An Active Volcano Crater For 10½ Hours, And Here’s What You Get

  23-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The result was an immersive layering of experimental, otherworldly soundscapes, evocative one minute of Sun Ra, the next of Aphex Twin or Autechre. Glitch and drone melded with desert-blown free jazz. Mournful loops of electrified cello overlaid throbbing synthesizer, the music constantly spinning apart and reassembling into a whole.” (includes audio)
  
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• Writer Attacked And Harassed In His Home Village, Even As His Books Draw Acclaim In English Translation

  23-08-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After undergoing a vicious attack by caste leaders in his home state of Tamil Nadu, his novel One Part Woman last month was the subject of a landmark court decision defending the right of artists to critically depict their own communities. Recent interest in [Perumal] Murugan’s work has exploded, with five novels coming out, translated into English from the original Tamil. But Mr. Murugan seems unsure of what kind of writer he will be now.”
  
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• What About The Money We Lose While You’re Fixing Our Home? Sydney Opera House’s Resident Companies Ask Government

  23-08-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Opera Australia and the Australian Ballet have lashed out at the [New South Wales state] government for failing to provide any compensation for the arts companies being shut out of the Sydney Opera House while it undergoes renovations in 2017.”
  
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• Serpentine Sackler Gallery to mount major Zaha Hadid show

  23-08-2016 13:07
  
  An exhibition of rarely seen paintings, drawings and digital works by Zaha Hadid is due to open at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London this winter (8 December-12 February 2017), throwing new light on the late British-Iraqi architects accomplishments as an artist and calligrapher.
  Hadid is closely associated with the Serpentine, joining the gallery as a trustee in 1996. She designed the inaugural annual summer pavilion in 2000, and completed the extension for the Serpentine Sackler Gallery
  
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• Olympic boxer Joe Joyce puts paint—as well as people—on canvas

  23-08-2016 13:00
  
  Joe Joyce, a Team GB boxer who won a silver medal at the Olympic Games in Rio, is also a trained artist. Joyce, who fights at the super-heavyweight class, graduated from Middlesex University in 2009 with a BA degree in fine art. He arrived in London this morning (23 August) along with the other UK Olympians on the special gold-nosed jumbo jet.
  Joyces tutor at Middlesex, Steve Mumberson, an associate professor in painting and printmaking, tells us that Joyce began college as a painter mainly int
  
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• Edinburgh Fridge 2016 gets awards for bland, safe comedy

  23-08-2016 12:31
  
  It will have an 'austere, liturgical ceremony suitable to the drabness of the occasion'
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.22.16

  23-08-2016 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  How Dance Will Help Teach Us About The Next Transformative Technology
  Dance is the most physical art. Bodies moving, yes, but also because of how bodies relate to the space they’re in. Much of the energy in tech innovation right now is exploring the edges between physical and virtual worlds, … read more
  AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-08-22The Fisher Folly: SFMoMA’s Bad Deal
  We’ve never known exactly the details of the deal that the San Fran
  
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• Beyond the Beatles: Peter Blake's pop art on paper – in pictures

  23-08-2016 08:00
  
  Peter Blake didn’t stop at designing the Sgt Pepper cover, as this exhibition of rare and limited-edition works by the godfather of British pop art shows Continue reading...
  
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• US artist builds wall near Mexican border to confront ‘everything that Donald Trump represents’

  23-08-2016 04:06
  
  Louis Hock, a multi-media artist who grew up in American border towns and now lives near San Diego, California, has spent much of his career tearing walls down in one way or another.
  From the late 1970s and on, he has made videos documenting the daily struggles of the Mexican immigrants who were his neighbours. In 1993, he teamed up with Elizabeth Sisco and David Avalos to offer a tax rebate, handing out $10 bills to Mexican day labourers in California for their unrecognised contributions to th
  
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• American artist builds wall near Mexican border to confront ‘everything that Donald Trump represents’

  23-08-2016 04:06
  
  Louis Hock, a multi-media artist who grew up in American border towns and now lives near San Diego, California, has spent much of his career tearing walls down in one way or another.
  From the late 1970s and on, he has made videos documenting the daily struggles of the Mexican immigrants who were his neighbours. In 1993, he teamed up with Elizabeth Sisco and David Avalos to offer a tax rebate, handing out $10 bills to Mexican day labourers in California for their unrecognised contributions to th
  
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• Culture goes west: could Parramatta really become 'Australia's next great city'?

  23-08-2016 01:39
  
  First the Powerhouse, now Tropfest; as two of Sydney’s cultural drawcards get set to move 25km west of the CBD, inner-city hipsters are fuming, but booming Parramatta and its multicultural talent pool has its sights focused on the world stage Last week the long-running Australian short film festival Tropfest announced that, after a tumultuous 12 months, it would be moving from Centennial Park to Parramatta Park in February. Film director and Tropfest board member George Miller welcomed the
  
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