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• What not to miss during Berlin Art Week

  12-09-2016 23:44
  
  Time is going to be of the essence during this years packed programme for the fifth Berlin Art Week (13-18 September). Time-based media such as films and performances make up most of the 120 events taking place in the German capital. Here is our selection of what not to miss: Anne Imhof at Hamburger BahnhofThe winner of the 2015 Preis der Nationalgalerie, Anne Imhof, takes over the main hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof for the second act of her three-part opera, Angst II. The first act took place
  
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• Colorado Symphony Posts Its First-Ever Surplus And Names A New Music Director

  12-09-2016 23:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the first time since it was organized in 1989, the Colorado Symphony is beginning a new concert season with a budget surplus, $1.7 million in cash in the bank and substantial financial commitments toward a goal of creating a $50 million permanent endowment.
  
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• Stuart Brisley at Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo

  12-09-2016 23:31 via artnews.com
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• Whitney Museum opens first Carmen Herrera exhibition in nearly 20 years

  12-09-2016 23:00
  
  The Cuban-born, hard-edge painter and sculptor Carmen Herrera opens her first solo museum show in nearly two decades at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York this week. Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight (16 September-2 January 2017) features more than 50 paintings, drawings and wooden sculptures made between 1948 and 1978. Some of the works on view, including the paintings Field of Combat (1952) and To: P.M. (1967), have never been shown in a museum.
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• Tea with a side of social and ecological justice

  12-09-2016 23:00
  
  The conceptual dance artist Jill Sigman moves to a socially and ecologically-conscious beat in Weed Heart, her artist-in-residency performance at the Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Centre in New York. In the 70-minute performance, set in an installation with found assemblages and weeds planted in repurposed pots, Sigman and the multidisciplinary artist Katrina De Wees serve the audience freshly-brewed mint tea mixed with herbs that Sigman herself recently foraged. Wearing a headdress
  
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• Slow start for Brussels Gallery Weekend

  12-09-2016 23:00
  Brussels has gained a reputation as the next Berlin and Europes best-kept secret, thanks to a combination of low rents and a high number of art collectors. But as Brussels Gallery Weekend kicked-started the international art season on Thursday (8 September), international collectors and curators largely stayed away and some local galleries opted out of the official programme (which charges 3,000).
  The event is having a bit of a slow start, says the Brussels-based collector Alain Servais, who is
  
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• Shanghai Project opens first phase with focus on the future

  12-09-2016 23:00
  
  The first phase of the inaugural Shanghai Project, a cross-disciplinary event directed by Lee Yongwoo and Hans Ulrich Obrist, opened last week with the debut of Sou Fujimotos Envision Pavilion. The delicate structure of white scaffolding, glass and plants evokes Londons Crystal Palace and serves as a site for public events and performances. For the opening, it housed Otobong Nkangas collaborative project Landversation, which features talks with people whose work involves land, including the Bra
  
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• Object lessons: from a $4m Chinese emperor's handscroll to Giacometti's mousy stools

  12-09-2016 23:00
  
  Wang Hui et al, The Kangxi Emperors Southern Inspection Tour, section of scroll VI (late 17th century)
  The Roy and Marilyn Papp collection of Chinese paintings, Sothebys, New York, 14 SeptemberEstimate $4m-$6mThe banker L. Roy Papp developed a taste for Asian art while working in the Philippines in the 1970s. Over 20 years, he and his wife Marilyn collected Chinese paintings from the Ming and Qing dynasties across subjects, media and artists. The star of Sothebys 122-lot sale is a portion of a
  
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• Object lessons: from a $4m Chinese emperor's handscroll to Giacometti's mouse stools

  12-09-2016 23:00
  
  Wang Hui et al, The Kangxi Emperors Southern Inspection Tour, section of scroll VI (late 17th century)
  The Roy and Marilyn Papp collection of Chinese paintings, Sothebys, New York, 14 SeptemberEstimate $4m-$6mThe banker L. Roy Papp developed a taste for Asian art while working in the Philippines in the 1970s. Over 20 years, he and his wife Marilyn collected Chinese paintings from the Ming and Qing dynasties across subjects, media and artists. The star of Sothebys 122-lot sale is a portion of a
  
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• Come for Kai, stay for the music

  12-09-2016 23:00
  
  MoMA threw its hat into the ring for New Yorks opening season on 13 September with the show Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts (und dann berlasst mich den Mauerseglern), dedicated to the German artist. The congregants munched beef jerky and gossiped about the gallons of perfume the museum had to buy for the installation, all to the tune of a heavily 1980s playlist that Althoff himself had arranged (sample track: Bring On the Night by The Police). Most would have to return to se
  
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• Can foreign collectors and museums sustain Brazil’s art market?

  12-09-2016 23:00
  
  Rios Olympics gave Brazil a temporary lift last month, but attention is now turning back to the countrys grim reality. In the seven years since winning the Olympic bid, Brazil has gone from commodities-fuelled boom to corruption-ridden burn-out.
  Predictably, Brazils art market has stalled, and some galleries have reported their business down by a third. But the international reception of Brazils artists, most recently their prominence in the Tate Modern extension, is a cause for celebration, sa
  
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• Art Berlin Contemporary slashes exhibitor numbers

  12-09-2016 23:00
  
  The identity of Art Berlin Contemporary (abc) has been a touchy subject since the anti-fair launched in 2008. Billed as an invite-only, selling exhibition of solo artist projects, abc has effectively become Berlins main fair since the demise of its rival, Art Forum, in 2011. At last years edition, which drew 30,000 visitors, its resistance to the F-word seemed to have waned. Exhibitors could participate by open call for the first time and organisers introduced walls and corners to the open-plan
  
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• Art at the São Paulo biennial – in pictures

  12-09-2016 22:33
  
  The subtitle of the second oldest art biennial after Venice is Incerteza Viva (Live Uncertainty), and the artists on show expressed the anxiety and instability of modern-day Brazil and beyondReview: São Paulo Biennial – artists react to Brazil’s political turmoil Continue reading...
  
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• ICI Announces 2016 Nominees for Independent Vision Curatorial Award

  12-09-2016 22:32 via artnews.com
  Today, Independent Curators International named the twelve curators who have been shortlisted for its Independent Vision Curatorial Award. Franklin Sirmans, director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, will choose the winner, who will receive a $3,000 stipend that goes toward funding … Read More
  
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• Monica Nassif Named President of Walker Art Center’s Board of Trustees

  12-09-2016 22:16 via artnews.com
  Today the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis announced that Monica Nassif will be the new president of its board of trustees. Nassif, a founder and former CEO of Caldrea/Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day Company, will serve as the board’s president for two … Read More
  
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• Picabia Alert #12: ‘Bird’s Eye’ at Michael Werner

  12-09-2016 22:07 via artnews.com
  “Picabia Alert” takes note of shows and publications that include the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953), aiming to sate Picabia appetites until a retrospective of the artist arrives at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in November.Sound the alarms. There are … Read More
  
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• Berlin Club Berghain Deemed ‘High Art’ Institution by German Court

  12-09-2016 19:59 via artnews.com
  Berghain–the legendary epicenter of Berlin nightlife known for its strict door policy, unimpeachable music program and multi-day marathon clubbing sessions that could be described as being competitively hedonistic–has now been deemed to be, for tax purposes, a “high art” institution … Read More
  
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• The Man Who Wants To Fix Barnes & Noble

  12-09-2016 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some of that decline was attributed to a lack of new big hits to compete with a string of blockbusters last year, and to a cooling off of the sale of adult coloring books. A poor retail environment that cut into store traffic was another factor hurting sales, but B&N founder Len Riggio, who has returned as CEO following the dismissal of Ron Boire in August, acknowledged that B&N “[shot] ourselves in the foot somewhat by making unprecedented inventory reductions,” as well as &
  
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• Here’s the Gallery List for Paris Internationale 2016

  12-09-2016 18:06 via artnews.com
  Ah, yes. It is September, and that means that art fairs will soon be opening up all around the world at a fast and furious pace. (Not that there was really much of a break over the summer, as there … Read More
  
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• Jerry Saltz: The Lost Generations Of Critics

  12-09-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I think we lost three generations of critics to academicism, writers made skittish about their own opinions, afraid, only following a party-line of preapproved taste, deluded into believing that there is such a thing as objectivity, and only writing for a tiny audience of employed institutionalists who might dole out a job. Or maybe I’m just trying to rationalize never being offered tenure or even a full time teaching job.”
  
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• The Detroit Symphony’s New “Cube”

  12-09-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Arts institutions are fragile. There are always lots of competing needs. But the Cube needs to be a regular place for provocative, out-of-the-box and grassroots entertainment that reflects the personality of the city.”
  
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• Is The Balance Of Power Between Popular Artists And Galleries Shifting?

  12-09-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “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.
  
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• How To Apply The Great British Bake Off To Judging Books For Awards

  12-09-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Judging the quality of anything is murky and complicated, especially when everything under consideration meets a certain baseline standard. All of the bakers in the Bake Off are talented, and all of the books in the Booker contest have achieved a basic level of excellence.”
  
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• The Royal Opera Names A New ‘Head Of Opera’

  12-09-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The decision to appoint Mr. Mears to succeed the Danish-born Kasper Holten came as a surprise, because Mr. Mears has little experience with the politics of big opera houses and has a relatively modest international profile.”
  
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• Getting A Solo Show At The Whitney At Age 101

  12-09-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Frankly, she didn’t bloom late, she was noticed late,’ said Dana Miller, the exhibition’s curator and until recently director of collections at the Whitney. ‘She bloomed a long time ago.'”
  
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• Are You Ready For Micro-Theatre?

  12-09-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You see everyone’s faces, right there. If they’re enjoying it, you can feel that. And if they’re not, you can feel that too!”
  
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• Rauschenberg’s not-so-subtle endorsement of Hillary

  12-09-2016 15:40
  
  The Hillary Rodham Clinton Campaign coffers were given a boost by none other than Robert Rauschenberg back in 2000. The US artist designed a limited edition print to support her historic, and successful, attempt to be the first First Lady to win a seat in the Senate. Rauschenberg drew on his vast archive of photographs to create a signature design featuring a running donkey clearly going places, a line of elephants backsides and a broom, handy to clear up any dung, presumably. The collage is co
  
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• Art Basel Parent Company MCH Group to Take Majority Stake in India Art Fair

  12-09-2016 15:38 via artnews.com
  In March, MCH Group, the Swiss fair conglomerate that owns Art Basel, announced that it would establish a “new portfolio of leading regional art fairs,” by either taking a stake in existing art fairs around the globe, or creating new … Read More
  
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• The Case For ‘Feelgood Seriousness’

  12-09-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s a joyful, noncynical story of women and their progression in this world.”
  
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• Specific Objectives: The Complex Task of Preserving Donald Judd’s Legacy

  12-09-2016 15:15 via artnews.com
  One recent afternoon in Donald Judd’s old house in downtown Manhattan, the late artist’s children—Flavin and Rainer—were discussing their father’s career. Flavin has a boyish, unlined face framed by reddish-blond hair. Rainer inherited her slender build from their mother, dancer … Read More
  
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• Even Nicholas Serota Was Shocked By Tate Modern’s Wild Success And Popularity

  12-09-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “No one expected such numbers. Serota thought he had an art museum; what he got was a major tourist attraction.”
  
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• The Quiet, And Persistent, Power Of Maya Lin’s Art And Architecture

  12-09-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Thanks to her culturally supportive upbringing, youthful acclaim, and preternatural self-confidence in following multidisciplinary pursuits without a careerist agenda, Lin has freed herself from the entrapments of the infernal fame machine.”
  
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• Morning Links: Claire Danes Edition

  12-09-2016 14:54 via artnews.com
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• Shortlist announced for Taylor Wessing portrait prize

  12-09-2016 14:50
  
  Images of surfers, boy in school uniform and orthodox Jews will compete for prestigious photography awardA disorientating image of modern-day Californian surfers that looks as if it could be from the 19th century has been shortlisted for one of the world’s most prestigious photography awards.The National Portrait Gallery in London announced that three photographers will compete for this year’s Taylor Wessing portrait prize across a strikingly diverse range of subjects: surfers, ortho
  
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• Losing Our Religion, But Together, In A Semi-Religious Structure Kind Of Way

  12-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even as growing numbers of U.S. adults are disaffiliating from faith-based institutions, some have found that secular life lacks the community structures and sense of belonging often offered by religious organizations.”
  
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• New, Cheaper Music Streaming Services (From Old Streaming Companies)

  12-09-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Amazon and Pandora “are set to introduce new versions of their streaming services in coming weeks, charging as little as $5 a month.”
  
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• What Happens When Matilda Grows Up?

  12-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I got to have the most amazing birthday party ever courtesy of Danny DeVito and his family. I got to travel. And, on a pragmatic level, it helped me pay for college.”
  
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• At City Ballet, Young Women Make The Leap From Ballerina To Choreographer

  12-09-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I like the stuff that happens when I’m at that mental-empty place. That’s so cool, because in already a short amount of time, I’m learning to trust myself. It’s empowering. It’s because when you do something scary, you get stronger. Always.”
  
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• Movie Star David Oyelowo Has Had It With Sexism In The Industry

  12-09-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I just feel like if God, in his divine plan, made it that pretty much the population is 50/50 of men and women, why it should be below 10% of women behind the screen, when we have this cultural medium that is so influential, so impacting, so educational, so inspiring.”
  
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• Selling Books Can Make You Better At Writing Books

  12-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What does working in a bookstore do to a writer, that isn’t done in an MFA workshop or in some other, self-cultivated environment devoted to books? For me, it’s radically expanded my reading list, my relationship to books, and how I treat the work of other writers in relation to my own.”
  
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• How Does Christopher Guest Come Up With His Sweetly Pointed Satirical Movies?

  12-09-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It struck me a long time ago that it didn’t really matter on what level people were working on anything, it was just as important to them as the people working on what’s perceived as a higher level. The major leagues as opposed to the minor leagues or off-off-off Broadway as opposed to Broadway. It really is all the same.”
  
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• A Classically Trained Painter’s Inspirations From The Contemporary World

  12-09-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The dual mission Mr. Marshall has been pursuing with a kind of holy fervor for almost 40 years now: building a sturdy bridge for figurative painting from the 15th century to ours, over treacherous spans of recent history that declared both figuration and painting to be finished — and at the same time trying to rewrite history itself.”
  
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• In pictures: Sir John Soane’s Museum unveils £7m restoration

  12-09-2016 12:05
  
  A seven-year, 7m project to restore the Sir John Soanes Museum has been completed and will open tomorrow (13 September). Once the London home of the architect Soane (1753-1837), its eccentric interior is packed with his eclectic collection of sculptures, paintings and curios.The main areas in the final phase of the Opening up the Soane project include the Catacombs (with Roman cinerary urns), the lobby to the Breakfast Room (with a hundred works of art and a glass-bottomed floor), the Apollo Re
  
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• Günther Uecker gets first solo show in London in more than 50 years

  12-09-2016 11:40
  
  For the first time in more than 50 years, the Zero Group artist Gnther Uecker is to have a solo show in London. The exhibition, which opens at Dominique Lvy gallery on 23 September (until 29 October), will include six new large-scale paintings studded with swirling fields of nailsa technique the German artist has employed since the 1950s.
  In an act of violence that the artist says reflects current world events, Uecker attacked the front and back of the canvas-covered wooden panels with an axe.
  
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• 'She seemed shy. Then suddenly this wild beast came out' – my 10 years shooting Kate Bush

  12-09-2016 08:00
  
  The decaying spacesuit, the Kabuki makeup, the Joan Collins shoulderpads … photographer Guido Harari recalls chronicling the pop star’s many guises“Any other star,” says Guido Harari, “would have gone crazy. They’d have probably thrown me out.” It was 1am one night in 1989 and the Italian had been photographing Kate Bush non-stop for 15 hours. “We hadn’t eaten. We weren’t really talking. Just shoot, costume change, more makeup, shoot,
  
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• From This Weekend’s AJBlogs 09.11.16

  12-09-2016 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This Week In Understanding Audience Stories: America’s Creative Divide Isn’t Where You Think
  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 …read more
  AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2016-09-11
  Weekend Extra: Alex Riel Meets Bill Evans
  Listeners rarely have the opportunity to witness world-class mus
  
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• Melbourne Banksy exhibition a 'major coup' for city, says mayor

  12-09-2016 05:04
  
  Robert Doyle welcomes announcement that city to host Art of Banksy, the largest-ever exhibition in Australia of the elusive British street artist’s workMelbourne’s mayor has welcomed the announcement of the biggest-ever exhibition of Banksy’s work to be held in Australia – just months after original pieces by the artist were removed by construction workers.The Art of Banksy exhibition, which was curated by the notoriously elusive artist’s one-time agent, will open a
  
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• What happens when a colourblind artist can finally see the full spectrum?

  12-09-2016 05:00
  
  Visitors to Frieze New York this year might recall the saturated blue of a calcified American flag displayed on the stand of Emmanuel Perrotinthe first colourful work ever shown by the artist Daniel Arsham, who has a form of colourblindness which leaves him with what he describes as a drastically reduced range of colour vision. For audiences who know my work, it was a bit jarring they never really considered that the work was lacking colour, explains the artist, whose characteristic palette of
  
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• This Weekend’s Top AJBlog Posts 09.11.16

  12-09-2016 00:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week In Understanding Audience Stories: America’s Creative Divide Isn’t Where You Think 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 … read more
  AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2016-09-11
  Weekend Extra: Alex Riel Meets Bill Evans Listeners rarely have the opportunity to witness worl
  
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