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• Seven Things Brain Scientists Have Figured Out About Creativity And The Brain

  16-09-2016 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As it turns out, there’s a major neuroscientific basis for the link between openness to new experience and creative thinking. Exploration is tied to the neurotransmitter dopamine, which also plays a role in motivation and learning (among other things) and “facilitates psychological plasticity, a tendency to explore and engage flexibly with new things,” the authors write.
  
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• ‘No One’s Seen the Paintings’: Larry Clark on His Show at UTA in Los Angeles

  16-09-2016 23:03 via artnews.com
  Tomorrow night, a show of work by the artist and filmmaker Larry Clark will open in Los Angeles at the new art center run by the Hollywood powerhouse UTA. But last week Clark was in New York, having stopped by … Read More
  
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• ‘I’m One of the Lucky Guys’: Larry Clark on Showing Paintings for the First Time, and Taking the Place of Pete Doherty in His Latest Film

  16-09-2016 23:03 via artnews.com
  Tomorrow night, a show of work by the artist and filmmaker Larry Clark will open in Los Angeles at the new art center run by the Hollywood powerhouse UTA. But last week Clark was in New York, having stopped by … Read More
  
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• Estuary Biennial looks at the history of migration

  16-09-2016 23:00
  The history and geography of the Thames Estuary is the inspiration for a new biennial arts festival. Estuary 2016 (17 September-2 October) presents a programme of contemporary visual art, literature, film and music in historic venues along the Essex and Kent shorelines, with each artist responding to the area as a place of migration and transition. The visual art exhibition, Points of Departure, will take place in Tilbury Cruise Terminal, the departure and entry point for many people migrating
  
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• Neolithic female statuette from 8000-5500 BC found in Turkey

  16-09-2016 22:32
  
  This week, the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced an exciting new discovery at atalhyk in southern Anatolia, central Turkey, the site of a well-preserved Neolithic settlement: a statuette of a zaftig female dating to about 8000-5500 BC.
  The marmoreal stone object, with such details as hip creases and an indented navel in a protruding stomach, weighs 1kg and is 17cm in length. Its uniqueness is due to its material (while this is stone, most figurines are clay), its skillful carvin
  
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• Caitlin Keogh at Bortolami, New York

  16-09-2016 22:05 via artnews.com
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• Arts Council England Will Start Requiring Quantitative Measurement Of Programs It Funds

  16-09-2016 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ACE is pressing ahead with a roll-out of the scheme despite the feedback. Organisations across all artforms will be “required to use a specified system to complete an agreed number of evaluations each year and support each other by providing peer reviews”. This will be mandatory for NPOs receiving more than £250k a year in regular funding, while those funded below this level will be encouraged and supported to use it.
  
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• The Book Publisher That Has Borrowed The Serial TV Model

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  “The company is essentially a book publisher, but instead of releasing whole novels by lone authors, it rolls out stories like a TV network: one “episode” a week, each penned by a different writer. Every installment, much like every episode of The Night Of, will take a little under an hour of your time, and for those who keep up with their shows on iTunes, the options to buy will be familiar.”
  
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• Publishers Think They’ve Figured Out The Algorithm That Will Make Us Buy. So What Does That Mean For What Gets Published?

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  “A handful of startups in the US and abroad claim to have created their own algorithms or other data-driven approaches that can help them pick novels and nonfiction topics that readers will love, as well as understand which books work for which audiences. Meanwhile, traditional publishers are doing their own experiments: Simon & Schuster hired its first data scientist last year; in May, Macmillan Publishers acquired the digital book publishing platform Pronoun, in part for its data and
  
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• Princes and princesses can paint too

  16-09-2016 20:15
  
  Royals can be creativethats the message behind Convergence, a new show at the Ritz Carlton DIFC in Dubai (29-30 November) which will feature works by 15 of the worlds sovereign artists including HE Sheikh Dr Hassan bin Mohammed bin Ali Al Thani of Qatar, HRH Princess Sibylle of Prussia, and HRH The Princess Sophie from Romania (the latter takes photographs of the natural world). The organisation behind the show, Royal Bridges, was founded by Sheikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, a member o
  
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• The Ballerina Who Blazed Onstage – Literally

  16-09-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was at the Paris Opera in 1862, still the age of gas lighting, which is not a good combination with tutu skirts.
  
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• On the throne: what it's like to use the Guggenheim's solid gold toilet

  16-09-2016 19:46
  
  Putting the flash into flush, the museum installed America, a fully functioning, 18-carat gold toilet made by Maurizio Cattelan. And I can confirm that it worksNew York’s Guggenheim museum unveiled its latest installation on Friday – a solid gold toilet titled America.
  The toilet, which the Guardian can confirm is fully functioning, is the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who describes the piece as “100% art for the 99%”.Are you sitting down? Maurizio #Cattelan:
  
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• Where Diversity In Hollywood Movies Is (NYT Critics Discuss)

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  “Obviously much has changed, but too many new movies just play the tokenism game, using minorities as accessories or emblems of the white character’s presumptive good intentions — like the Prius parked in the driveway.”
  
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• ‘Being an Artist in the ’40s Was Like Suicide’: On the Long Career of Carmen Herrera

  16-09-2016 19:21 via artnews.com
  For the majority of her career, Carmen Herrera’s name wasn’t well known. Looking back at the ARTnews archives, only one of her shows was reviewed, in 1965, and then there was no mention of her again for 55 years. Yet … Read More
  
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• Wendy White Designs Pro-Hillary Shirts, Will Be Available at Massive ‘Dem Jam’ Art Event in Brooklyn

  16-09-2016 19:10 via artnews.com
  Those who follow the artist Wendy White on Twitter know that she is an impressively vocal advocate for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Now White, who is probably best known for her effervescent, neon-hued paintings, has gotten into the fundraising game, … Read More
  
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• Wendy White Designs Pro-Hillary Shirts, Available at Massive ‘Dem Jam’ Art Event in Brooklyn

  16-09-2016 19:10 via artnews.com
  Those who follow the artist Wendy White on Twitter know that she is an impressively vocal advocate for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Now White, who is probably best known for her effervescent, neon-hued paintings, has gotten into the fundraising game, … Read More
  
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• A Panel Of Doctors Argues Over What Exactly Ailed Vincent Van Gogh

  16-09-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The diagnosis came out of a meeting of experts sponsored by the Van Gogh Museum [in Amsterdam], in connection with its current exhibition, ‘On the Verge of Insanity.’ It included 35 international psychiatrists, other doctors and art historians weighing in on evidence about van Gogh’s medical case. The debate was lively and sometimes ‘fierce.'”
  
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• Could The Building You Live In Be Damaging Your Mental Health?

  16-09-2016 18:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The issue is hotly debated. For example, it’s often believed that open plan offices promote pro-social working and avoid the drab monotony of cubicle working, but other studies claim that it can instead be bad for productivity and wellbeing.”
  
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• Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor to design Fondation Beyeler's expansion

  16-09-2016 18:31
  
  The Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, outside of Basel, has selected the 2009 Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthors proposal for its extension building in the Iselin-Weber Park, the museum announced yesterday (15 September). According to a statement issued by the Beyeler, the international board unanimously chose the project by Zumthor, who has designed other museums including the Kunsthaus Bregenz, the Kolumba Kunstmuseum in Cologne and the forthcoming $600m expansion project
  
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• Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet Is on the Cover of the ‘New York Post’

  16-09-2016 18:29 via artnews.com
  Well, there you have it: New York’s Rupert Murdoch-owned daily tabloid has put Maurizio Cattelan’s “America”—the Guggenheim’s golden toilet heard ’round the world, open to the public today—on the cover. The wood is pretty much what you’d expect: “We’re No. … Read More
  
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• Josh Faught and Ruth Laskey Win 2016 San Francisco Artadia Awards

  16-09-2016 18:14 via artnews.com
  Artadia announced today that the winners of its 2016 San Francisco Artadia Awards, given annually to Bay Area–based artists, are Josh Faught and Ruth Laskey. They will receive $10,000 each, and are now eligible for the National Artadia Award, the … Read More
  
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• BC’s Provincial Museum Launches Global Program For Repatriating First Nations’ Artifacts

  16-09-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Canadian province of British Columbia has dedicated C$2m in funding to establish a First Nations department and repatriation programme at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria to help First Nations in the province recover their cultural heritage – including religious items and ancestral remains – scattered in museums across the world.”
  
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• El Sistema Is Widely Touted As Salvation Through Music. But Where’s The Evidence?

  16-09-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is tempting to conclude that Sistema’s greatest success has been in global branding, from Afghanistan to New Zealand, as a one-size-fits-all method of teaching music.”
  
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• Burtynsky, brass bands and a divine bull-ride – the week in art

  16-09-2016 17:20
  
  William Kentridge comes to the Whitechapel, Zaha Hadid’s successor speaks and we rule on a cultural showdown between London and Paris – all in your weekly dispatchWilliam Kentridge: Thick Time
  Time and memory, history and politics are the stuff of the acclaimed South African animator’s recent works.
  • Whitechapel Gallery, London, 21 September-15 January. Continue reading...
  
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• Is Turning Old TV Shows Into Stage Plays Really A Workable Idea?

  16-09-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In theatre, there’s typically somewhere between 90 minutes to two and a half hours to establish characters, take them through a plot and wrap up their story. … A successful television series operates under a different model: most episodes are only between 30 and 60 minutes, but the lives and stories of the characters can go on for years, sometimes adding up to hundreds of hours.” Howard Sherman looks at some upcoming attempts to bridge this gap.
  
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• Say Hello to My Little Zine! The NY Art Book Fair Takes Over MoMA PS1

  16-09-2016 16:42 via artnews.com
  The NY Art Book Fair draws a huge crowd every year, and so it wasn’t a surprise that there were lines everywhere at this year’s edition—lines to get into the bathroom, lines to see certain booths, lines for the KAWS … Read More
  
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• Say Hello to My Little Zine! The New York Art Book Fair Takes Over MoMA PS1

  16-09-2016 16:42 via artnews.com
  The NY Art Book Fair draws a huge crowd every year, and so it wasn’t a surprise that there were lines everywhere at this year’s edition—lines to get into the bathroom, lines to see certain booths, lines for the KAWS … Read More
  
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• This Season’s New Sitcoms Explore ‘Manxiety’

  16-09-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This fall, broadcast television will turn its attention to the battle of the straight white man to assert his masculinity in an increasingly alien world. And you won’t need to wait until the first presidential debate to see it. The male protagonists of several new sitcoms are not as belligerent as the male protagonist of the election. (A possible exception: the one who wields a broadsword.) But they are besieged. At home and in the office, they find themselves struggling to prove th
  
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• Iranian artist Iran Darroudi funds major new museum in Tehran—to show her works

  16-09-2016 16:11
  
  The leading Iranian artist Iran Darroudi is funding a new museum due to open in the Yousef Abad neighbourhood of Tehran. The ground-breaking ceremony took place earlier this month on Darroudis 80th birthday. According to the Financial Tribune website, the new museum is scheduled to open in 18 months.City officials donated a plot of land for the new building, which will double up as a cultural and education centre. Darroudi has donated 195 of her pieces from the 1960s to today, to be permanently
  
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• Opera Needs A Radical Overhaul, Says Director Of Britain’s Most Radically Overhauled Opera Company

  16-09-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Graham Vick of Birmingham Opera Company: “So much is encouraging about opera just now, most of it found in the sense of adventure of performances in pub theatres, supermarkets and car parks. … Making this expensive art form accessible does sometimes mean finding less costly ways of presenting it. … But trapped between tyrannical, unyielding musical values and a theatrical inferiority complex, artists and programmers, artistic directors and marketing departments cling on to ou
  
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• ‘Opera Companies Should Just Bite The Bullet And Start To Use Amplification,’ Argues One Maestro

  16-09-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Conductor and radio presenter Guy Noble: “The houses are too big for many of the voices to cut through and as a consequence audiences are leaving with a less than exciting experience. Amplification is seen as such a dirty word. … I sincerely hope that opera doesn’t disappear in a puff of purist smoke. And if it does, might we not even be able to hear it?”
  
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• ‘I Think We Should Approach The Operas With More Humility Than That’ – David McVicar On Regieoper

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  “The debate about production style – a lot of time audiences are unhappy about production style – and I am too when I see some work, particularly in Germany, because what I’m detecting is a director saying, ‘I have to make my mark with this piece. I have to do something that will never be forgotten.’ And I think that’s such a dull way of proceeding because I think we should approach the operas with more humility than that. All of us.”
  
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• MoMA To Make Thousands Of Archival Images Of Exhibitions Available Online

  16-09-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Beginning Thursday, after years of planning and digitizing, much of that archive will now be available on the museum’s website, moma.org, searchable so that visitors can time-travel to see what the museum looked like during its first big show (‘Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh,’ in the fall of 1929); during seminal exhibitions (Kynaston McShine’s ‘Information’ show in 1970, one of the earliest surveys of Conceptual art); and during its moments
  
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• Tacita Dean review – cloudy confessions and Hockney on camera

  16-09-2016 14:53
  
  Frith Street Gallery, London
  The former Turner prize nominee’s portrait of the painter toys with truth and artifice as cleverly as her first foray into theatre with actor Stephen DillaneSitting in his Los Angeles studio, David Hockney looks at the wall and smokes. For the last couple of years, Tacita Dean has also been living in LA, where she got to know the painter, whose portrait of Dean’s son Rufus hangs in the blurry distance of Dean’s filmed portrait of Hockney. Rufus, in
  
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• Cleveland Orchestra Launches Flexible Not-Exactly-A-Subscription Plan

  16-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The ‘Members Club,’ a new style of subscription plan …, now active and deployed through a new smartphone app, is open to all but targets young and middle-aged people who would like to attend more frequently but choose not to commit to traditional subscriptions.”
  
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• Tracey Emin makes her own crumpled bed and lies in it, on Merseyside

  16-09-2016 14:37
  
  The artist’s renowned 1998 installation My Bed – which she always builds herself – is about to go on show at Tate LiverpoolTracey Emin throws her knickers on to the bed. She’s not quite satisfied, so she retrieves them and has another go. It takes five increasingly athletic throws and a lot of laughing until the pale blue underwear is in just the right state of casual abandon. For this is no ordinary bed. It is THE bed.The bed that Count Christian Duerckheim bought for &p
  
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• Morning Links: David Breslin Edition

  16-09-2016 14:35 via artnews.com
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• Paul Wolfe, 90, Director Of Sarasota Music Festival And Orchestra

  16-09-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “During his 34-year tenure, Wolfe led countless concerts for the organization now known as the Sarasota Orchestra, performed in what is now the Sarasota String Quartet, co-founded the Sarasota Music Festival and expanded and enthusiastically conducted the organization’s vibrant youth orchestra.”
  
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• Diana Vishneva To Retire From ABT

  16-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Russian ballerina Diana Vishneva, a principal with American Ballet Theater since 2005, will give her farewell performances with the company [next June] … Ms. Vishneva, 40, is also a principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, and will remain with that company.”
  
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• Cyprien Gaillard’s Nightlife: a seductive fever dream of race and revolution

  16-09-2016 14:00
  
  The Parisian artist’s video work depicts beauty found in destruction, from Hollywood to Jesse OwensThis 3D film is a fever dream of race and revolution. Set to Alton Ellis’s reggae refrain “I was born a loser”, it begins with Rodin’s Thinker, projected in a void. But its feet are mangled, blown off by Black Power supporters the Weather Underground, believed to have dynamited this particular cast in Cleveland, 1970. Continue reading...
  
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• Ballet Parents, *Do Not* Push Your Daughters To Start Dancing En Pointe Too Young

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  “Performers from the Royal Ballet, the Washington Ballet and the Staatsballett Berlin – who all trained under the Royal Academy of Dance – have joined forces to call on parents not to push their children into starting pointe work just because some of their peers might have.” Says one, “Starting too early can cause enormous damage.”
  
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• A Look At Hong Kong’s Enormous In-Progress Arts Center

  16-09-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A game-changer for global performing arts is certainly the powerhouse taking shape in Hong Kong: the West Kowloon Cultural District. Spread across 40 hectares of land reclaimed in the 1990s as part of the HK$200 billion (£20 billion) Airport Core Programme, the hub is run by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority and will include 17 core arts and cultural venues, as well as space for arts education.”
  
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• Burning Man’s #SoWhite Problem May Finally Be Getting (A Little) Better

  16-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steven W. Thrasher: “In the summer of 2015, … I interviewed about 30 black people and some other people of color at Burning Man (pretty much all the people of color I could find who would talk to me) … When I returned this year, there was a burning question on many people’s minds: did I think there were more black people at Burning Man a year later? In a word: yes.”
  
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• Show of Lebanon-based Syrian artists to open underneath London train station

  16-09-2016 12:17
  
  An exhibition drawing attention to the plight of Syrian refugees is due to launch next week beneath Waterloo train station in London. The London-based charity International Alert is behind the show, Create Syria (22 September-2 October), which includes works by Syrian artists based in Lebanon.Animations, photographs and audio installations will be dotted around the House of Vans exhibition space, which consists of a series of tunnels located underneath the train station.
   
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• Toronto's Aga Khan Museum to celebrate Syria's heritage

  16-09-2016 11:45
  
  The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, devoted to the heritage of Muslim civilisations, opens an exhibition on 15 October devoted to the art of Syria.
  Syria: A Living History includes around 50 pieces chosen from the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and museums and collections in Berlin, Ontario and Dubai. It includes an eye idol carved around 3,200 BC, a picture by the noted 20th-century painter Fateh Moudarres, and the celebrated Aleppo Room from the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin.Symbol
  
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• Leading Istanbul galleries join forces for new Gallery Weekend

  16-09-2016 11:40
  
  Istanbul Gallery Weekend, a new initiative launched in the beleaguered city by a group of commercial galleries, is due to take place later this month (30 September-2 October).
  Fourteen galleries, including Pi Artworks, Galeri Nev and Zilberman Gallery, have joined forces for the new project, founding a new organisation called Contemporary Art Galleries Solidarity.The majority of the galleries in the new association have been the primary galleries that have been active for the longest timethey h
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.15.16

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  Michael Hersch, 9/11, and the twin towers of light
  The way we now live is increasingly unthinkable, with the daily news over the summer carrying accounts of one mass-killing disaster after another. What do you do with that? One answer was to be had at thethe Lower East Side venue known as The Spectrum. a tiny, living-room like place … read more
  AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2016-09-15Carmen Herrera, 101-Year-Old Overnight Success, Gets Her Whitney Close-Up (with video)
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• Avant-garde Alexander Calder jewellery to go on show in UK first

  16-09-2016 09:01
  
  Calder, famous for his mobiles, also created bespoke pieces of jewellery for friends from variety of materials including cutleryThey are avant-garde and often tricky to wear but the 1,800 earrings, bracelets, necklaces and brooches hand made by Alexander Calder are seen as “the pinnacle of art meets jewellery,” according to gallerist Louisa Guinness. Continue reading...
  
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• Vincent van Gogh exhibition headlines National Gallery of Victoria 2017 program

  16-09-2016 08:27
  
  More than 60 van Gough artworks, many never shown in Australia before, are the centrepiece of an NGV autumn/winter program that also features Katsushika Hokusai and Festival of PhotographyMore than 60 artworks by Vincent van Gogh will be coming to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in 2017, many of which have never been shown in Australia. The world premiere exhibition, Van Gogh and the Seasons, will be next year’s instalment of the NGV’s Winter Masterpieces series, comprised of
  
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• 'A welcome rebuke to dead white men': The Smithsonian's African American museum finally arrives

  16-09-2016 08:14
  
  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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