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• What we learned from the Knoedler fakes scandal

  28-08-2016 23:00
  
  Are collectors stupid to spend millions of dollars on a work of art without personally investigating its authenticity? This is what Robert Storr, the former dean of Yale University School of Art argues.
  Storr was speaking at a panel hosted by Ifar (International Foundation for Art Research) in New York in July about the issues raised by the Knoedler fakes scandal, which resulted in the illustrious New York gallerys closure. Knoedler and its former director claim they were duped by the forgeries
  
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• Parviz Tanavoli unveils his largest ever work at Toronto’s Aga Khan museum

  28-08-2016 23:00
  
  The leading Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli, who faced a travel ban last month, has unveiled his largest ever sculpture at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. The bronze piece, Horizontal Lovers, is one of three works that will go on show in the grounds of the museum. Volume-wise, the work is the biggest I have ever made. It is around 13ft high, Tanavoli says.
  Another vast sculpture in the show, Big Heech, made from stainless steel, is part of Tanavolis famous Heech series, the Farsi word and s
  
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• This Week In Audience: Are Middle Class Values Stifling The Arts?

  28-08-2016 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Have orchestra pops concerts lost the pops thread?… A decade of experimenting with pay-as-you-will theatre in Charleston… NBC confirms a shift in how audiences want to watch the Olympics… Are middle class norms stifling the arts?… What do regular museum goers think about the art?
  
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• This Week’s AJ Highlights: That Time Nureyev And Fonteyn Got Arrested In A “Hippie Raid”

  28-08-2016 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Earthquake Devastates Historic Italian Towns… Has the audience deserted blockbuster movies?… The best new beautiful library of 2016… Is it a good idea to pay young people to try culture?… When superstar dancers were arrested in a 1960s police raid.
  
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• Reinventing Ballet’s Long Form

  28-08-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Binet gave a killer speech on what he wants the ballet of his generation to look like: non-hierarchical, non-heteronormative and non-subscribing to gender stereotypes.”
  
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• When Works Of Art Come Apart (Or Get Knocked Down, In Banksy’s Case)

  28-08-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Often, the issues can be traced back to the artists themselves. While painting’“The Last Supper’ in Milan in the 1490s, Leonardo da Vinci tried a number of oil-paint experiments, hoping to achieve better effects by painting on dry wall rather than on wet plaster. Within 20 years, the masterpiece was flaking off the wall, creating an ongoing headache as experts argued over which parts were authentic and which had been added by overzealous restorers.”
  
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• The Venice Film Fest Provides A Superb Showcase For Awards Bait

  28-08-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s back on top after a scorecard that saw successful Oscar wins for Venice premieres three years in a row: Gravity, Birdman and, last year, Spotlight. Hollywood has taken notice.”
  
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• How Many Decades Can A Woman Play The Ingenue On Broadway?

  28-08-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I worked with my acting teacher Harold Guskin to help me create the edgiest possible performance. We found autoerotic, neurotic, nightmarish and subliminal obsessive layers everywhere in the plot. The morning after opening night, the word ‘lovely’ appeared twice in a review describing my character. I was ‘ever-lovely’ and in ‘lovely’ voice. Nothing else.”
  
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• What It’s Like To Try To Play – But Not Caricature – The First Lady Of The United States

  28-08-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The film is not campy and it’s not winking at the audience going, ‘Look! It’s the future president and first lady.’ It is rooted in authenticity.”
  
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• Max Ritvo Took The Poetry World By Storm, All While He Dealt With Terminal Cancer

  28-08-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over time, he said, his work had shifted ‘away from sort of ebullient death poetry and fighting poetry and poetry of, sort of, the bloods and the squirmies and the guts, and more toward trying to figure out what death is, and what my place in the world is.'”
  
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• Why Are Adults Confused When Kids Totally Get It, Asks An Author

  28-08-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We are at a crossroads, trying to figure out what’s next, and in order to get to the other side, we have to wade in the water. Perhaps, this is us reckoning with our muddy past, crossing over the River Jordan. Even some of the antiquated questions being asked, some of the objectionable books that are being published, might, oddly, be necessary blunders that bring us closer to becoming more human. Like our students.”
  
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• When Teens Without Arts Opportunities Get To Do Shakespeare

  28-08-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s not about being a great actor. … It’s about studying craft, deriving a sense of strength from that craft, and feeling that you’ve grown in some way. If students get anything from this program that they can apply to any other aspect of their lives, that’s a huge success for us.”
  
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• Tate Britain project uses AI to pair contemporary photos with paintings

  28-08-2016 16:23
  
  IK Prize-winning system matches images from the 24/7 news cycle with centuries-old artworks and presents them onlineSeated against a deep red backdrop, gazing intently at hand-held mirrors, two eunuchs in sparkling saris inspect their appearance before Raksha Bandhan celebrations in the red light district of Mumbai. The photograph from the Reuters news agency is an arresting contemporary scene, but a new Tate Britain project is aiming to inspire deeper reflections with images from its own collec
  
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• One British Politician Pledges Extra Money For The Arts (If He Gets Elected, Of Course)

  28-08-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Speaking at world’s largest arts festival in the Scottish capital, Mr Corbyn said that under his leadership Labour will draw on the country’s ‘proud cultural heritage’ and give people from all sections of society the opportunity for their ‘creativity to flourish’.”
  
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• Can A Neighborhood Nonprofit Succeed At Saving Langston Hughes’ Home As Harlem Arts Center?

  28-08-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’ve been talking a lot about what it means to embrace newness but also hold on to legacy, hold on to culture, and not erase the actual places that we believe are sacred spaces of the Harlem Renaissance.”
  
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• In England, A Famous Zaha Hadid Piece Goes Back Up (For Sale)

  28-08-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is very poignant. … But all the more marvellous that this master work should be presented to remind us what an extraordinary contribution she made.”
  
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• Zaha Hadid pavilion erected at Chatsworth House for show

  28-08-2016 13:09
  
  Late architect’s creation for Serpentine Gallery summer party will be the highlight of sculpture exhibition at stately homeAn enormous, curvy, mushroom-like pavilion designed by the late architect Dame Zaha Hadid has been installed in the grounds of one of Britain’s grandest stately homes.For the last two weeks, workers have been unpacking and erecting the 23 sq m structure, called Lilas, on the south lawn of Chatsworth House, the Derbyshire home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire
  
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• Zaha Hadid pavilion erected at Chatsworth House

  28-08-2016 13:09
  
  Late architect’s creation for Serpentine Gallery summer party will be the highlight of sculpture exhibition at stately homeAn enormous, curvy, mushroom-like pavilion designed by the late architect Dame Zaha Hadid has been installed in the grounds of one of Britain’s grandest stately homes.For the last two weeks, workers have been unpacking and erecting the 23 sq m structure, called Lilas, on the south lawn of Chatsworth House, the Derbyshire home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire
  
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• What inspires Hans Ulrich Obrist and seven other cultural tastemakers

  28-08-2016 09:30
  
  The heads of the Serpentine, Secret Cinema, Glasgow International, the Young Vic and others on how they find fresh talent and new ideasSwiss-born curator, writer and art historian and artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries. Since 2009, Obrist has held a top 10 spot in ArtReview magazine’s annual list of the art world’s 100 most powerful people. Related: Cornelia Parker: ‘I don’t want to tick anyone else’s boxes’Related: Mike Kelley: the nonconformist's
  
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• It’s Me to the World review – you may have seen it here first

  28-08-2016 09:00
  
  Modern Art Oxford
  The gallery celebrates 50 trailblazing years with new work and old favourites by Richard Long, Marina Abramović and more. Just don’t touch anything…The opening gallery is empty of objects but filled with visions. Richard Long’s drawing in pale clay spreads out across the floor before you like a furrowed field or a corn maze, twisting back on itself in rectilinear patterns. The line forms a labyrinth, and you cannot help walking the line, taking a turn th
  
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• Mr. Nobody’s Political Doctrine

  28-08-2016 01:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If your remember that strange but astoundingly OK film with Jared Leto – that’s good but it’s not what we’re talking about right now. But since this paragraph is an introduction and i don’t feel like a want to write a proper introduction – let’s make a cold opening. Oh, wait. I already did it.
  Here the opening paragraph ends and we jump into the article.
  Mr. Nobody is extremely bizarre character from Grant Morrison’s extremely bizarr
  
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• Grandmother of African art finds unlikely partner in war on Aids

  28-08-2016 01:05
  
  South Africa’s leading tribal painter Esther Mahlangu has joined Lady Gaga and a luxury vodka brand to raise money for HIV preventionOn the outskirts of a sprawling low compound stands a sun-bleached, hand-painted billboard. It welcomes visitors to the village and proclaims: “Esther is here … First lady to travel over sea.”Esther Mahlangu is indeed here. She is sitting, legs outstretched, on a reed mat lain across a mud floor, painting careful black lines on a rough piec
  
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