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• Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Bring Their Approach To Art Collecting

  01-09-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Venture capitalists’ characteristic business models suggest approaches to collecting and philanthropy that many gallerists find appealing. Andy Rappaport, a VC who now runs his own family office, described the differences between venture capitalists and other types of investors.”
  
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• Vasari: the artist who overshadowed himself

  01-09-2016 23:00
  
  There can be few more flagrant instances of the law of unintended consequences than the way in which Vasaris Lives of the Artists have all but fatally overshadowed his own artistic career. For while even his greatest admirers would concede that he was not a creative genius on the Olympian level of his hero, Michelangelo, he was an extremely accomplished painter and indeed architect. At the same time, it seems clear thatwhether he would have agreed or notthe very best of him was reserved for his
  
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• Tragic photograph of Syrian toddler spurs Alfredo Jaar to action

  01-09-2016 23:00
  
  A year ago, a photograph of the body of a drowned Syrian toddler on a Turkish beach made front pages around the world. The New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar believes it was the moment that made Europe see the migrant crisis. Jaar was speaking at Londons Royal Institution in July in a talk organised by the South London Gallery and Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative.The image of the dead boy, Alan Kurdi, inspired Jaar to create The Gift (2016), an interactive work made to raise fun
  
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• Researchers burst Moholy-Nagy’s bubbles at the Guggenheim

  01-09-2016 23:00
  
  The second wife of the Hungarian-born Bauhaus artist Lszl Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), Sibyl, wrote that her husband used their kitchen oven to heat sheets of plastic so they would bend and distort light better. So was he also responsible for the bubbles in some of his Plexiglas worksor were they just flaws in the manufacturing process that he used in his explorations of light, reflection and transparency?
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• New show in Reading Prison celebrates its most famous inmate Oscar Wilde, but there are many more voices haunting its empty cells

  01-09-2016 23:00
  
  Looking out of the barred window of the tiny cell that Oscar Wilde occupied between 1895-97 as prisoner number C33 while serving his sentence for committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons, it was incredibly moving to experience first-hand on a glorious sunny day that little tent of blue/Which prisoners call the sky, described so vividly in Wildes The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898).
  This unprecedented opening of Reading Prison, which was only decommissioned in 2013, has come abou
  
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• John Waters turns Baltimore black box pink

  01-09-2016 23:00
  
  John Waterss campy classic film Pink Flamingos (1972), a transgressive tale of a competition for the title Filthiest People Alive, is anything but G-rated. But the artist and filmmaker showed a new version of the flick in his 2015 solo exhibition at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York that he says might be even more perverse. Kiddie Flamingos (2014) features children, clad in messy wigs and costumes, reading all of the roles in an adapted script as Waters audibly gives directions off-camera
  
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• Gwangju Biennale artists preserve the past while designers in London look to the future

  01-09-2016 23:00
  Koreas Gwangju Biennale (2 September-6 November) is going back to basics for its 11th edition. The show, subtitled The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), tackles broad questions about the role of art in todays world. Organised by Maria Lind, the director of Stockholms Tensta Konsthall, it includes 97 artists and collectives from 37 countries, including nine Korean artists. Inseon Park, born in Gwangju, will show her Root series (2014-15), which memorialises crumbling buildings in the city and
  
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• Cécile Bernard appointed general manager of Sotheby’s France

  01-09-2016 23:00
  
  The Old Master specialist Ccile Bernard has been named general manager of Sothebys France, the auction house announced on Wednesday 1 September. The country is the auction houses fourth-largest sales centre measured by annual turnover, and the appointment is intended to strengthen the development of Paris in liaison with Sotheby's global strategy, said Mario Tavella, the head of European operations.Bernard has a long track record in the international art market in London and Paris, working 
  
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• Alfredo Jaar on Europe's failure to welcome refugees

  01-09-2016 23:00
  
  This is the beach where three-year-old Syrian Kurd Alan Kurdis body was found on 2 September 2015. Day after day, more bodies washed ashore on the same beach. Yet those bodies remained invisible, as did the previous ones up to that September day. Why was this photograph published on the front pages of hundreds of newspapers around the world? The beach where Europe dies, wrote Mario Calabresi in an editorial for La Stampa. Can we publish the photograph of a dead child on the front page of a news
  
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• Alan, Yusra and the others

  01-09-2016 23:00
  
  This is the beach where three-year-old Syrian Kurd Alan Kurdis body was found on 2 September 2015. Day after day, more bodies washed ashore on the same beach. Yet those bodies remained invisible, as did the previous ones up to that September day. Why was this photograph published on the front pages of hundreds of newspapers around the world? The beach where Europe dies, wrote Mario Calabresi in an editorial for La Stampa. Can we publish the photograph of a dead child on the front page of a news
  
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• Restructuring At Yale University Press London Worries Critics

  01-09-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In their annual report for the year ending in June 2015, the trustees of YUPL reported that the Press had had its second best year ever. But they also sounded a warning note: while sales remained strong, the margin was disappointing and it singled out the results of the ‘Art list’ as being in particular decline compared to others.”
  
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• Ancient Egyptian Texts Collected And Published In English For First Time

  01-09-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Other than The Book of the Dead, few of the texts that have survived from the age of the pharaohs have been accessible to the general reader. “Tales of shipwreck and wonder, first-hand descriptions of battles and natural disasters, songs and satires make up [a new] anthology, titled Writings from Ancient Egypt.”
  
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• Movie Written By Algorithm Is Quirky, Interesting

  01-09-2016 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Benjamin’s writing sounds original, even kooky, but it’s still based on what humans actually write. [Director Oscar] Sharp likes to call the results the “average version” of everything the AI looked at. Certain phrases kept coming up again and again.
  
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• Bitter Experience: Theatre Critic Finally Gets Why Regular Middle-Class Folks Don’t Go To Plays More Often

  01-09-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Andrzej Lukowski, theatre editor at Time Out London: “I [now] realise the essential reason theatres are so full of old people is that they don’t have to support their offspring. … There are no theatre access schemes to help out nice middle-class people who happen to be temporarily skint because of childcare, and quite right too. But … anybody who says theatre is for everyone is living in a fantasy land.”
  
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• National Anthem Critics Have It Wrong

  01-09-2016 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Star-Spangled Banner” echoes the past and gives voice to our present. It is a living historic performance that resounds with the hopes and devotion of many to the nation, while also serving as witness to the country’s legacy of contradictions and a vehicle for social comment. Kaepernick’s star-spangled protest is part of this tradition, and thus is a productive call for Americans to make this “land of the free” serve all its people. However, related claim
  
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• Movie Industry Turns To The Patron Martyr Of The Black Lives Matter Movement

  01-09-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sixty-one years after the night 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched, “the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the string of controversial killings of black men by the police have given new impetus to efforts to film the story of Till, with at least three screen adaptations in the works.”
  
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• A Net Art Pioneer Evolves With the Digital Age: Rhizome Turns 20

  01-09-2016 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  From email list to web recorder, the organization is leading the fight to conserve our lives online Read More
  
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• What Exactly Would The George Lucas Museum Be? Critic Gets A First Look

  01-09-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It seems nearly everyone has an opinion about the collection of the Lucas Museum, which made Don Bacigalupi its first professional staff member last year. “It’s a ‘Star Wars’ museum,” some have said. “It’s a Hollywood memorabilia museum.” On Twitter, Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight called it “George Lucas’ planned Treacle Museum.” But who has actually seen the collection? Only a few people, says Bacigalupi —
  
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• Lucas Museum Relaunch In San Francisco Learns From Aborted Chicago Attempt

  01-09-2016 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Now that billionaire “Star Wars” creator George Lucas and his wife, Ariel Investments President Mellody Hobson, have taken their plans back to San Francisco, their team appears to have learned a lesson from their doomed approach in Chicago.”
  
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• Ed Ruscha at Crown Point Press, San Francisco

  01-09-2016 19:19 via artnews.com
  
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• Aggressively Mischievous: Gabinete H-E Descends on the Mistake Room in Los Angeles

  01-09-2016 19:16 via artnews.com
  
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• What Is, And Isn’t, ‘Artificial Intelligence’? Not What The Marketers Tell Us It Is

  01-09-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Om Malik: “Much like ‘the cloud,’ ‘big data,’ and ‘machine learning’ before it, the term ‘artificial intelligence’ has been hijacked by marketers and advertising copywriters. A lot of what people are calling ‘artificial intelligence’ is really data analytics – in other words, business as usual. If the hype leaves you asking ‘What is A.I., really?,’ don’t worry, you’re not alone. I asked various expert
  
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• Cultural Equity You Say? So What Does That Mean?

  01-09-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the course of the past half-century, conversations about diversity have tended to focus first on audiences, then on programming, and finally on leadership. Diversity’s core concern is about who is ultimately benefiting from the work; if diverse audiences are taking advantage, then that is the surest sign of success.”
  
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• The Pleasures Of Filming ‘Unfilmable’ Novels, By Someone Who’s Done It

  01-09-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hossein Amini, who wrote the screenplays for The Wings of the Dove, and Drive: “The biggest advantage of adapting an impossible book is that no one expects you to be entirely slavish to the source material. They’re not expecting a filmic replica. … I flatter myself when I say they felt halfway between adaptations and original screenplays, but that’s really a testament to the greatness of the novels. They not only allow you to see something of yourself in them, they allow
  
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• ‘An Ecosystem That’s Not Quite in Control of Itself’: Dealers Randall Morris and Shari Cavin on Their Collection of Self-Taught Art

  01-09-2016 17:56 via artnews.com
  
  On a recent afternoon standing in the Williamsburg apartment of Randall Morris and Shari Cavin, the eponymous Manhattan gallery owners, I was introduced to a new term. “A friend calls it our ‘ethnosphere,’ ” Morris said, referring to the pair’s … Read More
  
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• An Indie Revolution In Crossword Puzzles Gives The NYT Some Competition

  01-09-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A vibrant ecosystem of independent crosswords — “indies” — exists on the internet, its component puzzles multiplying and evolving, finding their niche and trying to find ways to survive. And some of them can outrate the gold standard over at the Times.
  
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• Kanye's 'Famous' sculpture ft. naked 'Taylor Swift' selling for $4m

  01-09-2016 17:28
  
  Los Angeles gallery Blum & Poe has put the piece up for sale after holding a private exhibition attended by Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner
  
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• Photojournalist Marc Riboud Dead At 93

  01-09-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The portrait became iconic overnight. Photographed in Washington D.C. in 1967, it showed a Vietnam War protester, Jan Rose Kasmir, holding a flower as she confronted a row of National Guard servicemen outside the Pentagon. The image became a symbol of the flower power movement and helped change public opinion against a war that had already lasted more than a decade.”
  
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• Burger King nails performance art with new Pavlensky menu

  01-09-2016 16:56
  
  Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky might have made a pointed political statement against Vladimir Putins regime by nailing his scrotum to Red Square in 2013, but it didnt sound particularly appetising. Burger King seems to think otherwise. How about a Pavlensky Burger? The St. Petersburg branch of the fast-food chain will be marking its sixth anniversary in Russias imperial capital (and hometown to both Putin and Pavlensky) with a number of limited edition hamburgers dedicated to Pavlen
  
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• Björk Digital review – to virtual reality and beyond

  01-09-2016 16:52
  
  Somerset House, London
  The musician’s otherworldly VR album-exhibition shows that technology can’t quite keep up with her galactic-scale artistic ambitionWell, this is definitely the most fun you can have inside a gigantic pulsating mouth this month. Predictably, Björk Digital is a peculiar affair. It is essentially the first chance to watch – or perhaps “experience” or “inhabit” would be more appropriate – four of the new virtual reality vide
  
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• Yuja Wang And Her Dresses Get The Janet Malcolm Treatment

  01-09-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As she performed, the thigh, splayed by the weight of the torso and the action of the toe working the pedal, looked startlingly large, almost fat, though Yuja is a very slender woman. Her back was bare, thin straps crossing it. She looked like a dominatrix or a lion tamer’s assistant. She had come to tame the beast of a piece, this half-naked woman in sadistic high heels. Take that, and that, Beethoven!”
  
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• American Gothic, depression-era tour de force, to come to London

  01-09-2016 16:21
  
  Grant Wood’s much parodied painting of austere Iowa farmers in rare trip abroad for Royal Academy show America After the FallAmerican Gothic, one of the most instantly recognisable of all 20th-century paintings, is to leave North American soil for the first time when it travels to Britain for an exhibition on Great Depression art.The Royal Academy of Arts announced that the Grant Wood painting, showing a solemn Iowa farmer with his wife and pitchfork in front of a wooden house, will be par
  
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• Woody Allen, At 80, Says That What Didn’t Kill Him Did Not Make Him Stronger

  01-09-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I don’t believe in the Nietzschean notion that what doesn’t destroy you makes you stronger. You see these soldiers come back with PTSD; they’ve been to war and seen death and experienced these existential crises one after the other. There are traumas in life that weaken us for the future. And that’s what’s happened to me. The various slings and arrows of life have not strengthened me. I think I’m weaker. I think there are things I couldn’t take no
  
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• Thieves Steal 12 Tons Of Marble And 10-Ton Sculpture From Anselm Kiefer’s Studio

  01-09-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Early in the morning on Sunday, 28 August, the German artist Anselm Kiefer’s 35,000sq. m studio and warehouse space in Croissy-Beaubourg, about 25km west of Paris, was burgled and robbed … The thieves are suspected of cutting through wire cages and making off with a ten-tonne lead sculpture of stacks of books – valued at €1.3m – and 12 tonnes of raw marble, worth around €1m.”
  
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• A Boeing 747 is being turned into a club on wheels at Burning Man

  01-09-2016 15:26
  
  The annual Burning Man festival got underway in Nevada's Black Rock City on Sunday, and every year the standard of sculpture and art installation gets higher.
  
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• That Smudge On Munch’s ‘The Scream’ Is Not Bird Poop, Say Scientists

  01-09-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Munch painted four versions of the artwork during the 1890s, but an 1893 iteration which resides in the Norwegian National Museum has long had a white smudge of unknown origin near the screaming subject’s shoulder. … After years of speculation, scientists from the University of Antwerp in Belgium have finally solved [the] mystery.”
  
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• Morning Links: Banned Holbein Hand Edition

  01-09-2016 15:03 via artnews.com
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• Google Restores Dennis Cooper’s Blog, And Explains Why It Was Deleted Without Warning

  01-09-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Artist and author Dennis Cooper re-launched his popular blog on Monday after months of legal disputes with Google, whom many accused of censorship. The artist posted a message on the blog’s Facebook account on Friday to explain Google’s reasoning for erasing his 14-year-old blog.” (It was a 10-year-old post.)
  
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• New York Times Axes Arts And Culture Coverage In Suburbs: Report

  01-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The New York Times this week quietly ended its coverage of restaurants, art galleries, theaters and other commercial and nonprofit businesses in the tri-state region, laying off dozens of longtime contributors and prompting protests from many of the institutions that will be affected. They foresee an impact not only on patronage but, in the case of the nonprofits, on their ability to raise funds to survive.”
  
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• Bass Museum In Miami Postpones Reopening To Next Year

  01-09-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Because of construction delays, the Bass contemporary art museum in Miami will reopen in the spring of 2017 rather than on Dec. 1 … In the meantime, the Bass will continue its programming in offsite locations.”
  
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• The Dancer Who Came Back From A Shattered Leg To Become A Company Principal

  01-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Dragged under the wheel of a London bus, ballet dancer Joseph Skelton was told he might never walk again without a limp.”
  
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• Prom 57: Elizabeth Kulman/BBC Symphony Orchestra/Semyon Bychkov, review: 'a new symphony commemorates those drowned in the refugee crisis'

  01-09-2016 14:11
  
  Thomas Larcher's 'Cenotaph' makes old symphonic forms newly relevant
  
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• Robert Battle’s Been Taking Some Heat At The Ailey Company – And He’s Glad For It

  01-09-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He’s only the third artistic director that Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has ever had, and not everyone has been happy to see him add works like Hofesh Schechter’s bleak and aggressive Uprising to the repertoire of a company whose brand is so tied up with inspiration and uplift. Says Battle, “I can’t imagine living anywhere other than on the edge – that place where you’re understood and misunderstood with the same amount of passion.”
  
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• London’s Finally Got Night Tube Service, And Now It Will Have A ‘Night Tsar’

  01-09-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “London mayor Sadiq Khan has begun the process of appointing a ‘night tsar’ for the capital, who will develop a vision for night-time culture and entertainment in a ’24-hour city’. … [He or she] will be an ambassador for London’s night-time economy, working with sectors including culture and the arts as well as with pubs and clubs.”
  
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• ‘Project Prospero’ – Shakespeare’s Globe Plans Major Expansion

  01-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Shakespeare’s Globe is planning a major redevelopment project that will create a new library and archive facility, rehearsal studios underneath the theatre and an upgrading of its production departments.”
  
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• Bass museum’s Miami Beach expansion delayed

  01-09-2016 13:10
  
  Those who were planning to visit the newly expanded Bass museum during this years Art Basel Miami Beach fair will be out of luck. The institutions grand reopening, which was originally scheduled for 1 December, has been postponed until spring 2017. The museum says construction delays are to blame for the new schedule. The $12m renovation of the Basss landmarked Art Deco building has been in the works since 2013 and aims to increase programmable space by nearly 50%.The process of renovating hist
  
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• What we left behind: North Korean refugee drawings lit up on the Thames

  01-09-2016 12:42
  
  South Korean artist Ik-Joong Kang has collated hundreds of sketches as part of an installation imagining reunificationManbok Kim remembers the house she fled 66 years ago as if it were yesterday. “We had a large orchard,” she recalled. “There were so many apples on the trees.”I went to North Korea twice and the entire population is taught to hate us. Who’s going to break this chain of hatred? Related: Russian film exposes the workings of North Korea's propaganda mac
  
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• Björk makes reality virtual at London’s Somerset House

  01-09-2016 12:31
  
  Heartbreak is the oldest story of all, Bjrk said at the press opening of her digital exhibition at Somerset House yesterday (31 August). The show centres on a series of 360-degree virtual reality videos the eccentric Icelandic singer has created for her 2015 album, Vulnicuraa response to her split from the American artist Matthew Barney.
   
  For each video, Bjrk has worked with a different director. Im a bit of a tyrant when I make my music, but with the visuals its more of a collaboration,
  
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• Galaxy of art heads to observatory in Russia’s north Caucasus

  01-09-2016 10:27
  
  An observatory in a remote mountain village in Russias northern Caucasus is the unlikely location for a new series of installations by Russian and foreign artists. The show is organised by Austrias cultural attach in Russia, Simon Mraz, and Madina Gogova, the co-founder of Artwin Gallery in Moscow and the minister of culture for the Karachay-Cherkess Republic in the northern Caucasus, Titled The Observatory, the exhibition opens to the public on 16 October and runs until 5 November.
  Mraz, the d
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.31.16

  01-09-2016 09:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Guillermo Del Toro at LACMA
  I must admit to being the kind of museum-goer instinctively suspicious of exhibits about popular culture. I say this as someone who loves pop culture and spends most of his life there. But these … read more
  AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2016-08-31From Private Delectation to Public Display: The Prado’s Once Hidden Nudes Flaunted at the Clark
  The seemingly robust attendance (figures not yet available) at the Clark Art Institute’s current summer extra
  
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