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• Katy Siegel Named Senior Programming and Research Curator at Baltimore Museum of Art

  29-08-2016 23:39 via artnews.com
  The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today that Katy Siegel will be its senior programming and research curator, starting on September 1.Siegel was formerly curator-at-large at the Rose Art Museum, where the BMA’s director, Christopher Bedford, used to be director. (The two … Read More
  
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• ‘The Resemblance Is All in the Eye of the Beholder’ at Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico

  29-08-2016 23:09 via artnews.com
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• Paint Pence’s portrait

  29-08-2016 23:00
  
  The Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis is seeking a professional portrait artist to immortalise Mike Pence, the states current governor and Donald Trumps running mate. The portrayal of Pencewhose term is up in January, whether or not he goes on to Washington, DC as the vice president of the United Stateswill join the  Governors Portraits collection, housed at the museum. Though the museum is organising the tender, the commission and framing of the work will be privately funded. To keep i
  
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• High-profile patron Tiqui Atencio turns the spotlight on her fellow collectors with new book

  29-08-2016 23:00
  
  The Venezuela-born patron and collector Tiqui Atencio, who sits on several major museum boards worldwide, is behind a new book which promises to lift the lid on collecting art.
  Could Have, Would Have, Should Have: Inside the World of the Art Collector, which is due to be published in October by the London-based company Art/Books, includes almost 100 interviews with collectors worldwide.
  These include the philanthropist and Swiss pharmaceutical heiress Maja Hoffmann; the London-based jeweller La
  
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• More than 700 women gather for artists’ photo in LA

  29-08-2016 22:51
  
  Over 700 women artists from Los Angeles' contemporary art world gathered in the courtyard of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel on Sunday, 29 August, for a historic group photo. It also signaled the final week for the gallery's inaugural exhibition Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016 (until 4 September).  The project, Now Be Here, was the brainchild of conceptual artist Kim Schoenstadt, who worked closely with the gallery's head of education Aandrea Stang.  Schoe
  
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• He’s With Her: Larry Gagosian to Host Fundraising Auction for Hillary Clinton at 21st Street Gallery

  29-08-2016 21:10 via artnews.com
  ARTnews has learned that on September 12, Larry Gagosian will host “Art for Hillary Auction 2016” at the Gagosian Gallery space on West 21st Street in Chelsea, presiding over a benefit sale that will raise money for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.Artists who have … Read More
  
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• Rooting for the Home Team: The Atlanta Biennial Returns

  29-08-2016 20:00 via artnews.com
  The Atlanta Contemporary gallery is nestled between two visions of the South. To the west lie railroad tracks for which the city was founded, under the name Terminus, in 1837, before its current name, a portmanteau of Atlantica-Pacifica, rebranded it … Read More
  
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• ‘It Was Like Someone Turned the Faucet Off’: Lisa Cooley on Closing Her Gallery

  29-08-2016 19:07 via artnews.com
  Yesterday, ARTnews reported that Lisa Cooley would be closing her eight-year-old Lower East Side gallery. This morning, Cooley spoke with us about some of the reasons for her closure, saying that, due to recent changes in the art world and art … Read More
  
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• 6 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week

  29-08-2016 17:43 via artnews.com
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• Charred tapestries to go on display 90 years after devastating fire

  29-08-2016 17:01
  
  Exhibition at Derbyshire’s Haddon Hall to focus on the impact of fire on country home – from its use as lighting to the damage it can causeCharred tatters that were part of one of Britain’s greatest tapestry collections are to be publicly displayed for the first time, close to the Derbyshire stable where the collection was stored for safe-keeping but was instead destroyed by fire in 1926.More than 60 tapestries, including some from the 15th century, were completely destroyed. T
  
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• Yinka Shonibare has his moment in the sun with shows on three continents

  29-08-2016 16:55
  
  With six exhibitions and several new commissions on the way, it is fair to say that Yinka Shonibare is busier than ever. This autumn, the London- and Lagos-based artist has shows at Stephen Friedman Gallery in London, the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, the Gemeentemuseum Helmond and the British Council in LagosShonibares first solo exhibition in Nigeria.
  The original scale model of Nelsons Ship in a Bottle, which was unveiled in 2010 for the Fourth Plinth project in Traf
  
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• Are Non-Profits Limiting Themselves By Overworking Their Employees?

  29-08-2016 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s no doubt that nonprofits today face serious financial difficulties and constraints, but do they have no choice but to demand long, unpaid hours of their employees? Putting questions of fairness aside, is their treatment of their workers limiting their effectiveness?”
  
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• What Does A Bad Decision Look Like In The Brain?

  29-08-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The brain is the most metabolically expensive tissue in the body. It consumes 20 percent of our energy despite taking up only 2 to 3 percent of our mass. Because neurons are so energy-hungry, the brain is a battleground where precision and efficiency are opponents. Glimcher argues that the costs of boosting our decision-making precision outweigh the benefits. Thus we’re left to be confounded by the choices of the modern American cereal aisle.”
  
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• As The Curtain Falls On Texas Rep, Does This Portend Bad Things For Theatres In The Suburbs?

  29-08-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Funding isn’t there for the smaller groups. … The percentage that’s taken up by the bigger groups is really high and we have to share the rest.”
  
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• Ai Weiwei Removed From Major Chinese Bienniale

  29-08-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ai tweeted that he received a ‘vague letter’ from Yinchuan MoCA’s artistic director Hsieh Suchen that ‘the decision is made by higher officials’ due to the show’s status as part of China’s One Belt, One Road initiative to build a new Silk Road of overland economic and cultural exchange with countries to China’s west.”
  
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• Juan Gabriel, Superstar Mexican Singer And Songwriter (On Both Sides Of The Border)

  29-08-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sent to live at an orphanage at age four, Gabriel’s rags-to-riches story was as well-known as his glittery outfits and his unrelentingly romantic lyrics.”
  
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• The ‘Dance Detective’ Meets The Challenge Of Reconstructing Lost Choreography

  29-08-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Discovering something great choreographers created is unlocking a piece of romanticized history,’ said Ms. Jones, an associate professor of dance here at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. ‘With work considered lost, curiosity compels me to dig into the past and reveal some of that mystery.'”
  
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• Morning Links: Old Masters Edition

  29-08-2016 15:04 via artnews.com
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• Holoscenes: Lars Jan's 3,500-gallon warning to humanity

  29-08-2016 15:03
  
  The LA artist puts performers in a slowly flooding plastic box for a work that’s part of London’s Burning festival – but an omen of greater disasters to comeEyes on the prize: the must-see art and design of autumn 2016For years the Los Angeles-based artist Lars Jan was haunted by an image he just couldn’t shake: “A man is turning the pages of a newspaper and slowly the room fills with water. Rather than reacting like there’s anything out of the ordinary, he ju
  
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• How The Tate Is Using Artificial Intelligence To Create A New – And Kind Of Weird – Experience

  29-08-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The team have created and trained a ‘brain’ to a point where it is simulating certain human attributes and unleashed it online – and it is creating a gallery.”
  
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• The Woman Who Created The Modern Waterfront

  29-08-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And a lot more: “She and Deborah Allen were the founding co-editors in 1954 of Industrial Design, a groundbreaking publication whose pages look as fresh today as when they were laid out by the art director Alvin Lustig.”
  
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• The Books A New Author Reads On Book Tour Can Make Or Break Them

  29-08-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’d pick up others along the way. All would be serendipitous. I’m going to learn from them not only how to handle a book tour better, but how to *be* better, fully stop.”
  
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• Two Museum Directors From Opposite Coasts Meet At A Party …

  29-08-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There were discussions of favorite architects, favorite cities and, yes, favorite museums.”
  
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• London Can Only Control Its Height-Obsessed Developers One Way

  29-08-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The clusters that will dominate the Thames at Vauxhall and Blackfriars are not by any reasonable definition in the right place. The meretricious junk appearing in outer suburbs is not well-designed. Nor have towers so far done much to address the most pressing housing needs.”
  
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• Rap And Rock Don’t Make Chicago’s ‘Fine Art’ Cut

  29-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The wide-sweeping aesthetic declaration comes as part of Cook County’s ongoing arguments about its tax code, and specifically the amusement tax levied against concerts, sporting events, ‘flower, poultry or animal shows,’ and any number of other ways the people of the Windy City get their kicks.”
  
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• What Is The Public Art In City Hall Park Saying?

  29-08-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Language of Things is a bit cerebral for a public art exhibition (the description does begin with a Walter Benjamin quote, which inspired the title); like the four speakers pointing inward in Watson’s sound installation, it can feel somewhat insular, even for art about codes.”
  
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• This Ballet Studio That’s Been Above A Hardware Store Since WWII Must Close

  29-08-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Nobody threw us out the door,’ Gleason said. But Gleason said the 25-by-30 foot rehearsal room above the hardware store, which an athletic dancer could bound across in about three leaps, is too small to train dancers for professional careers.”
  
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• How A Writer Of Gay (And Wildly Silly) Erotica Became The Standard Bearer For What’s Good In Science Fiction

  29-08-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you could pick a single writer to make an effective, compassionate statement about identity politics to a divided literary community, who would you pick? Would it be a schizophrenic, autistic person who’d authored an e-book called Space Raptor Butt Invasion?”
  
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• On Sunday, Italian Museums Donated All Of Their Profits To Earthquake Victims

  29-08-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As rescue efforts continue in the town of Amatrice and the surrounding area, where the death toll has risen to 247, the culture minister Dario Franceschini urged Italians to ‘go to museums in a sign of solidarity with the populations involved in [the] earthquake.'”
  
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• Robert Rauschenberg: the leader of American art's great ménage à trois

  29-08-2016 12:35
  
  The dazzling, haunting ‘combines’ at the heart of Tate Modern’s forthcoming retrospective were part of a private game between Rauschenberg and his peers and sometime lovers, Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns Robert Rauschenberg’s 1954 work Untitled is an upright wooden box supported by a white, colonial-era table leg over an open stage-like enclosure in which a stuffed Dominique hen struts next to a nostalgic photograph of a tall man in a white suit. Walk around this oddly comp
  
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• Eyes on the prize: the must-see art and design of autumn 2016

  29-08-2016 11:00
  
  Elton John shares his photography collection, Tracey Emin gets into bed with William Blake and David Shrigley gives everyone a big thumb’s-upNeon might once have been considered a quintessentially American medium but the British artists who have worked with it are numerous. Martin Creed, Tracey Emin, Cerith Wyn Evans and Eddie Peake are just some of the homebred talents to feature alongside international names in this major survey of neon art in, where else, Blackpool. Home to the world-fa
  
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• Top AJBlogs For 08.28.16

  29-08-2016 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  What Happens When Critical Opinion Separates From An Audience?A poll of movie critics worldwide asking about the best movies of the 21st Century so far shows a big gap between the critics and the box office. Is it inevitable as an art form matures that critical taste leaves the audience behind?… read moreAJBlog: diacritical | Douglas McLennan’s blog
  This Week in Audience: Are Middle Class Values Stifling The Arts?
  This Week: Have orchestra pops concerts lost the pops thread?…
  
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• Lisa Cooley to Close Gallery After Eight Years on Lower East Side

  29-08-2016 01:08 via artnews.com
  Lisa Cooley Gallery, an influential Lower East Side space that opened on Orchard Street in 2008, has closed, sources tell ARTnews. The last show, “Jeff Witscher: August,” was up until Friday. No future shows are listed on the gallery’s website.After opening … Read More
  
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