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• Much Angst About Destruction Of Syrian Historical Sites But Little Success

  15-09-2016 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For all the pageantry, the retaking of Palmyra has served as a powerful reminder of how detached from reality the international campaign to save Syria’s endangered cultural heritage has been.”
  
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• Socrates Sculpture Park releases design for first permanent building

  15-09-2016 23:14
  
  NYC Parks and the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New Yorka former illegal dumping ground that the Minimalist sculptor Mark di Suvero restored in 1986has released the first renderings for The Cubes, its first permanent 2,640 sq. ft building to be installed on site that will serve as a space for year-round public programmes. The two-storey structure was design by LOT-EK, a New York- and Naples-based architecture firm founded by the designers Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. It includes 960 sq.
  
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• Instagram Now Lets Users Ban Words. This Says Something Important About Our Evolution Of Language

  15-09-2016 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is a cultural moment that is newly respectful of the individual experience, of the individual voice, of the individual truth. It is a moment that is grappling, belatedly, with the many flaws of mass media and monoculture; it is a moment that is respecting, finally, how varied people’s sense of the world can be. All of that involves, intimately, the words people choose to share that world with each other. In that landscape of fast-moving language, one person’s slur is anot
  
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• New Cabinet gallery rises from Vauxhall’s pleasure gardens

  15-09-2016 23:00
  
  Among the proliferation of shiny new atrocities that are turning the Vauxhall district on Londons south bank into Dubai by the Thames (dont get me started on the American Embassy building), the new Cabinet gallery building now nearing completion on the edge of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens is a more congenial presence.
  The distinctive 12-sided, five-storey building has been designed by architect Trevor Horne (also responsible for Victoria Miro Gallery and Peer Gallery in Hackney, north London). The
  
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• Marilyn at Mana, as seen by Whoopi

  15-09-2016 23:00
  
  Whoopi Goldberg is the latest celebrity actor to add curator to her CV with an exhibition due to open next week on another star of the silver screen: Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn: Character Not Image (25 September-22 October) at the exhibition space Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey, will feature works of art and poetry by the late legend, the dress she wore when singing her sultry Happy Birthday to John F. Kennedy and photographs of Monroesome never before exhibitedby Milton Greene and We
  
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• Hard II Love—and to cast

  15-09-2016 23:00
  
  The senuous R&B legend Usher was the other man of the hour at the evening dinner for Daniel Arshams new show at Galerie Perrotin on 15 September. Before servers dressed all in white tossed down the plates at a nearby hall, attendees viewed Arshams Long Island City studio, which featured not only a stunning view of Manhattan but also several busts of Mr Raymond IV. The friendship is longstanding, with Arsham doing the cover of Ushers first album in four years, which drops today.
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• New African American Museum Is DC’s Best Architecture In A Generation

  15-09-2016 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The most impressive and ambitious public building to go up in Washington in a generation — if also the owner of a truly awkward acronym — the NMAAHC draws its considerable power from a willingness to embrace the nearly bottomless complexity of both its mission and its site.”
  
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• Objects And Even Chores Can Give Meaning To Life, If You Find The Play In Them

  15-09-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ian Bogost: “Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there’s play, the thing you choose to do. But if you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.”
  
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• Kandinsky painting bought directly from the artist by Solomon Guggenheim returns to auction

  15-09-2016 22:00
  
  A painting by Wassily Kandinsky returns to the market after more than 50 years at Christies Impressionist and Modern evening auction in New York on 16 November. Rigide et courb (rigid and bent) (1935), which the artist painted in Paris two years after he was forced into exile from Germany, is the auctions top lot and is estimated at $18-25m with a guarantee.The painting was first bought in 1936 by Solomon Guggenheim directly from the artist and was included in eight exhibitions through 1949 in
  
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• Here’s a New Behind-the-Scenes Film About Vito Acconci’s Survey at MoMA PS1

  15-09-2016 21:55 via artnews.com
  A few days prior to the opening of Vito Acconci’s early career retrospective at MoMA PS1, Vito Acconci: Where Are We Now (Who Are We Anyway?), the video artist and his wife, Maria, sat down with PS1’s director, Klaus Biesenbach, to … Read More
  
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• Obama to present awards to abstract painter Jack Whitten and choreographer Ralph Lemon

  15-09-2016 21:32
  
  The American abstract painter Jack Whitten and the conceptual choreographer Ralph Lemon are among the 12 recipients who will be awarded the 2015 National Medal of Arts (NEA) by president Barack Obama in a ceremony to be held at the White House in Washington, DC on 22 September. The award recognises artists across a range of disciplines that have helped to define our nations cultural legacy through the artistic legacy of their creative traditions, the NEA chairman Jane Chu said in a press release
  
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• Motion Picture Association Slams USC Study About Impact Of Movie Tax Credits

  15-09-2016 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Among other criticisms, the MPAA contends the study treats all state film production incentive programs the same and ignores how different sized incentive programs may have more or less impact.
  
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• On The History Of The American Flag In Black Protest Art

  15-09-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Colin Kaepernick’s] protest was a piece of performance art, and in staging it he blurred the line between art and protest. Kaepernick isn’t just a part of the long line of black athletes who have used their platforms to speak out about political issues; he (unintentionally) inserted himself into the rich tradition of black artists who have invoked the American flag in political protest.”
  
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• Did Alex Baldwin’s Lawsuit Against Gallery Owner Reveal His Ignorance About How Art Works?

  15-09-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is not inconceivable that a clever lawyer may well manage to convince a jury of the validity of Baldwin’s case—but the action has made him a laughing stock in the art world, singling him out as a classic know-nothing celebrity art buyer.”
  
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• Convincing Berkeley Students To Engage With John Calvin, Even Though They Despise Everything The Man Stood For

  15-09-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In my history of Christianity course, we read a number of challenging writers. Each one I ask students to read with as much sympathy, charity and critical perspective as they can muster. But nothing outrages them – not the writings of Augustine or Erasmus or Luther – more than two or three pages of John Calvin”, the “Ayatollah of Geneva.”
  
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• This Year’s National Medal Of Arts Honorees

  15-09-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Among the 24 honorees: musicians Wynton Marsalis and Santiago Jimenez; composer Philip Glass; actor Audra McDonald; and authors Sandra Cisneros, Ron Chernow, Rudolfo Anaya, and James McBride.
  
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• Roni Horn to Join Julian Schnabel, Mark Bradford in Curating Shows at the Clyfford Still Museum

  15-09-2016 19:28 via artnews.com
  The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver announced today that artist Roni Horn will be curating a show of Still’s work next year, joining Julian Schnabel and Mark Bradford as part of the museum’s ongoing Artists Select series. Schnabel’s show, which … Read More
  
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• Preserving Disappearing Languages From All Over The World – In One City

  15-09-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Toronto’s] roughly 2.8 million residents come from about 200 distinct ethnic origins and speak more than 140 languages and dialects. Of these, [linguist Anastasia] Riehl says, at least a ‘few dozen’ are endangered and several probably don’t even have proper names. “Large multi-ethnic cities like Toronto become the last context for these languages.'”
  
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• Research: Impact Of Museum Admission Fees On Who Comes And What They Do

  15-09-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Introducing an admissions fee does not affect the diversity of museum visitors, but can lead overall visitor numbers to fall, according to research released this week by the Association of Independent Museums (AIM).
  
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• Culture trumps politics with modern Arab art show in Iran

  15-09-2016 18:26
  
  Modern art by Arab artists will take over the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) this November. The Sea Suspended: Arab Modernism from the Barjeel Collection (8 November to 23 December) will include around 40 works made between the 1940s and the 1990s from across the Arab world. The works are drawn from the extensive collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, which is based in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. It will be the first time a show of modern Arab art has taken place in Iran,
  
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• Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet at the Guggenheim Museum Will Open to the Public Tomorrow

  15-09-2016 18:16 via artnews.com
  After a delay, Maurizio Cattelan’s “America”—an 18-karat golden toilet installed in a Guggenheim Museum bathroom—will finally open to the public tomorrow. Yes, it is functional. Call it toilet humor.Cattelan’s sculpture pays homage to greatest readymade ever: Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, a … Read More
  
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• ‘Guilty Or Not Guilty? You Decide …’: Viewers Dispense Vigilante Justice Live On Camera

  15-09-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The alleged carjacker is strapped to a chair as the video stream goes live and a distorted voice is heard describing his crimes. Footage is then shown of an attack before the words ‘Guilty or Not Guilty? You Decide …’ flash up on screen alongside a website address. The verdict is overwhelmingly guilty and the man is killed by lethal injection while the camera is running.”
  
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• ‘Tricky Territory’: In a New Book, Juliana Cerqueira Leite Looks at How Best to Represent the Vagina

  15-09-2016 17:48 via artnews.com
    Brazilian-American sculptor Juliana Cerqueira Leite has been working with the human body, specifically her body, in her art for the majority of her career. One ambitious project involved the Brooklyn–based artist casting various parts of her own body in alginate, … Read More
  
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• Swiss Institute to Move to St. Marks Place in the East Village Next Spring

  15-09-2016 17:39 via artnews.com
  Swiss Institute, which was displaced from its home on Wooster Street in SoHo after Jeffrey Deitch decided to take back the lease on his old gallery space, has found a new home in the East Village, on St. Marks Place … Read More
  
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• Latest Private Museum Suggests Growing Clout Of Collectors

  15-09-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That this low-profile Dutch businessman could pull together such a significant representation of Kelly’s work — with loans from the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, Tate London, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the artist’s own studio — for his private museum in a far-flung corner of the Netherlands indicates the kind of leverage that Mr. van Caldenborgh, 75, and other major collectors, now have in the art world.
  
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• Why Theater Artists In Taiwan Have To Avoid Politics, Even Though It’s A Democracy (Is The U.S. Headed This Way?)

  15-09-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stan Lai, the country’s leading playwright-director: “The acute confrontational stance of the two opposing parties has created a fatigue and distaste toward politics in society in general, including the artistic community. … There is no space for objective and rational discourse. That is why artists in Taiwan today naturally gravitate away from dealing with political issues.”
  
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• Swiss Institute finds new home on St Mark's Place

  15-09-2016 16:54
  
  After losing its rented space on Wooster Street when Jeffrey Deitch returned to his New York gallery, the Swiss Institute has found a long-term home on St Marks Place and Second Avenue in the East Village, where it will open next spring. It also has nine new trustees joining its board: Lisa Schiff, Alexandra Economou, Matthias Dettling, Bice Curiger, Sam Keller, Dominique Lvy, Christian Marclay, Michael Ringier and Iwan Wirth. The high-profile additions shows the testament of goodwill that surr
  
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• 'A welcome rebuke to dead white men': African American museum finally erupts on to DC skyline

  15-09-2016 16:33
  
  A century in the making, and now completed by Britain’s David Adjaye, the Smithsonian’s gleeful, gleaming upturned pagoda more than holds its own against the sombre Goliaths of America’s monument heartlandA small circular piggybank stands on display in Washington DC, featuring a drawing of a grand neoclassical edifice, much like the ones that march up and down the city’s National Mall, where America’s cultural and historical booty is housed. Except this building was
  
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• Jack Hofsiss, Tony-Winning Director Who Kept Working Even After Becoming A Paraplegic, Dead At 65

  15-09-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When he won a Tony in 1979, at age 28, for The Elephant Man, his career kicked into overdrive – until he was paralyzed in a diving accident in 1985. But, after a long recovery and a period of depression, an invitation from the Berkshire Theater Festival restarted what would become a long career.
  
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• Gawker Media’s New Owners Delete Six Existing Posts, Staff Rebels

  15-09-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Editorial staffers and the new owners at Univision] fought over the decision to delete six posts from the embattled digital media company’s stable of sites … Also expected to be discussed at the meeting was staffers’ request that Univision indemnify them personally for stories published – a request that the media giant denied, sources said.”
  
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• Don’t Call It a Comeback: Detroit’s Post-Bankruptcy Crisis

  15-09-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  This past April, I spent a week in Detroit. I grew up about 20 minutes outside the city, though I’ve been in New York for the last decade. My parents lived in the Detroit area for more than 60 years … Read More
  
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• Thomas Heatherwick’s $150 Million ‘Stairway To Nowhere’

  15-09-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By the look of the renderings officially unveiled on Wednesday morning, New York’s next significant landmark may be the city’s biggest Rorschach test, too.”
  
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• U.S. House Passes Bill To Outlaw Ticket Bots

  15-09-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Better Online Ticket Sales Act, or BOTS Act, would make it illegal to circumvent the security rules of an online ticketing Web site in order to buy tickets. The bill passed the House of Representatives in a voice vote Monday, and it’s now being considered by the Senate.”
  
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• Philistines can keep London – we'll always have Paris

  15-09-2016 15:00
  
  Are there a few fag butts on the streets of the Marais? Perhaps, but anyone who thinks London is more culturally vital than the City of Light is deludedIt’s midnight in Paris – at least according to the British newspapers. A plan to police the French capital with an “incivility brigade” has opened a sewer of schadenfreude as the British media portray the city as a “post-apocalyptic hellhole”. The brigade is a public relations disaster. Its very existence draws
  
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• Constable's Salisbury Cathedral masterpiece to be shown in city that inspired him

  15-09-2016 15:00
  
  Painter’s 1831 work completed after his wife’s death is centrepiece of new exhibition at Salisbury MuseumAfter 185 years, the trees around Salisbury Cathedral have grown taller and thicker, shrouding all but the magnificent tower and spire. But, remarkably, the water meadows are still as lush and unspoilt as they were in John Constable’s day.This is the view, including the shallow stream that draws the eye toward the magnificent cathedral, painted by the acclaimed British artis
  
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• Morning Links: Hudson Yards Bedbug Exoskeleton Edition

  15-09-2016 14:57 via artnews.com
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• Johan Kobborg Replaced For Good At Head Of Romania’s National Ballet

  15-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An ugly, months-long saga that saw renowned dancer-choreographer Johan Kobborg – engaged as artistic director in 2014 to bring the ballet company at the Bucharest National Opera up to top international standards – demoted without warning to corps de ballet member, a theatened exodus of foreign dancers (whose Romanian colleagues yelled “Foreigners out! at them), Kobborg first brought back and then barred from the building, and the resignations of two opera house general managers
  
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• Fort Worth Symphony Cancels More Concerts As Strike Continues

  15-09-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Although performances with the Texas Ballet Theater this weekend in Dallas will go on as scheduled, thanks to an arrangement made with the striking musicians, symphony management said it is canceling” concerts on Sept. 24 and 25.
  
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• Fondation Beyeler Taps Peter Zumthor for Expansion

  15-09-2016 14:16 via artnews.com
  The Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland announced the glorious news today that it has hired Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner to undertake an expansion in the nearby Iselin-Weber Park. The project is slated to cost about 80 million Swiss francs, … Read More
  
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• Buffalo Philharmonic Considers Branding Overhaul

  15-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On the eve of a new season, which starts on Sept. 17, the orchestra is polling its subscribers, supporters and community leaders, among others, as it considers rebranding itself and creating a new logo. … Survey questions include the frequency that people attend BPO concerts and whether it is for the traditional classics series or its Pops or Rock shows.”
  
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• Berlin’s Most Famous Nightclub Is Now Officially A Cultural Venue

  15-09-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A vast dance club housed in a former East Berlin power station, Berghain has somehow managed the impressive feat of becoming world famous while still retaining a reputation as having an underground edge. Now, a regional court has to an extent enshrined its status in law, by ruling that it may join the city’s museums and concert halls in being taxed not as an entertainment business, but as a venue for culture.”
  
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• Why WebTV (Remember WebTV?) Was Doomed

  15-09-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Terrible product ideas are a dime a dozen, but what about ideas that are fascinating, and perhaps executionally sound, but conceptually flawed? How often do they come about? And how often is it that they stick around the market for 17 years, despite fairly limited public interest? … On September 18, 1996 – 20 years ago this week – a startup firm released a device that meant to bring the internet to the living room.”
  
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• Royal Ballet’s New Principals Say YouTube Is Making It Harder To Wow Audiences

  15-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The rise of YouTube and the internet have made it more difficult than ever to impress the viewing public, the dancers have said, as they are expected to perform ever-more gymnastic feats to keep up with what people can see online.” Says one, Alexander Campbell, “I think there’s a video of a Chinese acrobat standing en pointe on someone’s head, and that’s incredible. So if you come and see someone en pointe on a massive floor, it doesn’t have that same e
  
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• Mike Kelley Foundation could follow Rauschenberg’s lead over image copyright

  15-09-2016 12:10
  
  The Mike Kelley Foundation could follow the example of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, which has allowed artists, scholars and educators to use copyrighted images free of charge and without having to obtain written approval since February. John Welchman, the chair of the foundations board, said that wearing my academic hat, he is a professor at the Universit of California, San Diego, he supported the Rauschenberg Foundations move. He told The Art Newspaper, we are discussing it," at the Mik
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.14.16

  15-09-2016 11:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Why Music And The Concert Experience Are On The Front Lines Of Virtual Reality
  Following on my post from yesterday about anticipating the kinds of experiences people will want from concerts comes this article from Wired about virtual reality and music. Evidently creating content for virtual reality is proving to be a challenge and music is so far the best showcase for VR. … read more
  AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-09-14Chi jazz fest 2016, details in photos and wo
  
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• Gavin Turk is latest artist to get show at Damien Hirst's gallery

  15-09-2016 10:42
  
  Newport Street Gallery is planning an exhibition devoted to Gavin Turk. The show, titled Who What When Where How and Why (23 November-19 March 2017), will include around 30 years worth of works, all of which are drawn from the collection of the artist Damien Hirst, the gallery's founder. One highlight is Cave (1991), which was the sole work in Turk's 1991 graduating exhibition at the Royal College of Art. The work is a blue plaque simply declaring that the artist had "worked here" from 1989 to
  
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• Edward Burtynsky's corrupted landscapes – in pictures

  15-09-2016 08:00
  
  Beautiful yet terrifying, Edward Burtynsky’s aerial photography is a reminder of just how much human activity has affected the planet – as industry and agriculture leave indelible scars everywhereContinue reading...
  
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• Gender and the NGV: 'More white male artists than you can shake a stick at'

  15-09-2016 03:00
  
  Critics are taking Australia’s most visited art gallery to task for its lack of non-male representation in its major exhibitions. But gender inequality at state galleries isn’t limited to the National Gallery of Victoria The largest and oldest site in Melbourne’s “arts precinct”, the National Gallery of Victoria’s main site NGV International is, plainly, a monolith: a hulking slab of grey stone with entrances and exits seemingly carved out as an afterthought.
  
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• Jack Whitten, Ralph Lemon Win 2015 National Medal of Arts

  15-09-2016 01:20 via artnews.com
  The National Endowment for the Arts announced the 12 winners of the 2015 National Medal of Arts today. Among them are Jack Whitten and Ralph Lemon, both of whom have recently received a great deal of praise in the art … Read More
  
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