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• This Week In Understanding Audience Stories: America’s Creative Divide Isn’t Where You Think

  11-09-2016 23:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: There’s a creative divide in America but it’s not where you think… Rethinking the modern concert hall in favor of the audience… Is glamour an ineffective sell for pop music?… A link between audience attendance and donations (not what you think)… Why has reading of literature declined?
  
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• Smoke gets in her eyes

  11-09-2016 23:00
  
  The UK artist Tacita Deans experience in Los Angeles is the subject of an exhibition that opens at Londons Frith Street Gallery this week (LA Exuberance, 16 September-4 November). The show includes colour lithographs depicting the clouds and vapour trails she found striking in Los Angeles, the organisers saybut no visit to the City of Angels is complete without a tte--tte with the greatest UK expatriate of them all. Dean asked David Hockney if she could film him smoking; unsurprisingl
  
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• Shanghai’s MadeIn Gallery makes the move to West Bund

  11-09-2016 23:00
  
  Shanghais MadeIn Gallery has announced it will move next month from the long dominant art compound at 50 Moganshan Lu (M50), to new premises at West Bund, where the Xuhui district government is gradually establishing a new art district. With spaces like ShanghArt and Aike-Dellarco already having made a similar move to West Bund, MadeIns arrival is a potential sign of a larger geographic shift in Shanghais art scene.Created in 2014 out of the artist Xu Zhens company of the same name, MadeIn Gall
  
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• As artists play the field, galleries are having to adapt

  11-09-2016 23:00
  
  Mega-dealers have wielded increasing cultural clout since the term was coined in 2010, but now the balance of power is tipping in favour of artists who are playing the field by exhibiting with galleries that do not represent them, or calling the shots in their long-term relationships.This month, the Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo has his first show with White Cube in Hong Kong (until 12 November). The London-based gallery does not currently represent Vo. Mathieu Paris, the director at White C
  
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• Art world stumps up for Hillary

  11-09-2016 23:00
  
  One Tesla sports car stood out among the black SUVs lining the block on 21st Street between 10th and 11th avenues on 12 September as muckety-mucks gathered at the Gagosian Gallery for a Hillary Clinton fundraiser. Titled Art For Hillary, the event featured an auction arranged by Simon de Pury with some 50 works by the likes of Chuck Close, Barbara Kruger, Todd Eberle, Joyce Pensato and Cindy Sherman, all in the five-figure range. A tiger print by Robert Longo sold for $80,000 and a Roy Lichtens
  
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• Art Basel’s owner takes majority stake in India Art Fair

  11-09-2016 23:00
  
  The Swiss-based MCH Group, which owns the Art Basel franchise, announced today (12 September) that it has taken a majority stake in the India Art Fair. The group now owns 60.3%, the previous owner Angus Montgomery has 29.7% and Neha Kirpal, the fairs founding director retains 10%.Kirpal, who established the fair in 2008, will still play a key role in its development, according to a statement. MCHs commitment to [the] region will help us develop the fair in coming years, Kirpal says. The new own
  
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• Lacma celebrates 50 years of Gemini GEL

  11-09-2016 22:21
  
  The second stop of a major exhibition has opened in Los Angeles as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of Gemini GEL (Graphic Editions Limited), the fine art print workshop and distributor in the city.
  The Serial Impulse at Gemini GEL (11 September-2 January 2017) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, features a few changes from its first appearance at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, last autumn.
  In California, 15 series are on view created at Gemini by 15 artists (two f
  
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• This Week’s AJ Arts Highlights: Has Entertainment Made Art Irrelevant?

  11-09-2016 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Major shakeup in London’s museum world… Nobel laureate says entertainment has killed art… Latest study of Hollywood reaffirms cultural inequality… Why did Wells Fargo disparage artists?… Did the Glenn Gould Foundation get ahead of itself in announcing arts Nobel prizes?
  
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• Alex Danchev obituary

  11-09-2016 18:21
  
  Historian and biographer who explored the political and ethical force of artThe historian and biographer Alex Danchev, who has died aged 60 from a heart attack, believed that it was artists rather than politicians who had the power to change society.Danchev made his name as a military historian, with acclaimed biographies of Oliver Franks (1993) and Basil Liddell Hart (1998), and a co-edition of the unexpurgated war diaries of Lord Alanbrooke (2001). More recently, artists had become his focus,
  
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• Game Of Thrones Cleans Up At The Creative Emmys

  11-09-2016 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On night one, Game of Thrones took home nine wins, Diane Warren picked up an Emmy for the powerful anthem ‘Til It Happens to You’ and Margo Martindale earned a record breaking win for guest actress in a drama series on The Americans.”
  
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• Lady Chablis Kept Us Riveted In ‘Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil’

  11-09-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ms. Chablis was a standout character in the book, in which the author, John Berendt, introduced the world to Savannah and the sometimes eccentric people who live there.”
  
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• Texas Ballet Theater Creates A Special Deal With Striking Musicians

  11-09-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The company will still use the striking musicians to accompany the ballet performances, but the musicians will perform under the name Symphony Musicians of Fort Worth. Harth-Bedoya will conduct as planned.”
  
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• How Does A Natural History Museum Clean An Enormous – And Beloved – Blue Whale?

  11-09-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It needs to be a soft bristle attachment that brushes the dust as we vacuum it. … But there’s no special ‘whale attachment’ that you can buy in a store.”
  
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• The University Of Chicago’s Intellectually Confused ‘No Safe Spaces’ Letter

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  “The university even hired a provost who specializes in corporate crisis management and dealing with ‘activist pressure.’ While the university accuses students of silencing opposing voices, it continues to insulate itself against difficult questions.”
  
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• Accusations Against Cosby Are Part Of The Story In New African American Museum

  11-09-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The museum, opening Sept. 24, came under fire last spring for its decision to include Cosby in its entertainment exhibition without noting that more than 50 women have accused him of rape, sexual assault or sexual harassment.”
  
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• The Challenge Of Adapting One Of China’s Most Beloved – And Lengthy – Masterpieces Into An Opera

  11-09-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The novel — over 2,400 pages in its standard English translation, twice as long as ‘War and Peace’ — is told in a mere two hours and 20 minutes. Hundreds of characters have been cut, leaving just eight main figures in the final show.”
  
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• On my radar: Yinka Shonibare’s cultural highlights

  11-09-2016 11:00
  
  The artist reveals the best way to see London’s architecture, his love of Pina Bausch and some in-depth reading on African cultureYinka Shonibare was born in London in 1962 and at the age of three moved with his family to Lagos, where he grew up. He returned to London to study fine art, and aged 18 contracted transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the spinal cord, which paralysed one side of his body. Shonibare’s painting, sculpture, photography and film explores themes of cultural
  
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• Power to… the art of protest

  11-09-2016 09:30
  
  Politically engaged art is thriving again, finding new ways to challenge in a complex digital world. We look at the rich history of protest art and, on the eve of a new group show, talk to radical artists about their workIn repressive states, the role of the artist is unambiguous: to assert the individual imagination, the singular power that all dictatorships fear. I remember once talking to the Czech dissident and writer Ivan Klima, who had been subject both to the arbitrary horror of a Nazi co
  
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• Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia; Maggi Hambling: Touch – review

  11-09-2016 09:00
  
  Victoria Miro Mayfair; British Museum, London
  Pensive and radiating silence, Paul’s self-portraits are also alive with movement. Meanwhile, the gregarious, quickfire art of Hambling has its own surprisesThe painter sits erect for her self-portrait as a solitary soul. Her long, narrow figure, slender of neck, head lifted, appears motionless and secret as a heron. Soft grey light flows around her, tinged with the pale gold and lemon that find their way into her flowing smock. It is an image
  
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