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• Director, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College

  19-09-2016 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH seeks an experienced cultural leader to be the next Howard L. Gilman ’44 Director of the Hopkins Center for the Arts. This is an exciting opportunity to guide a respected Ivy League institution into a new era.
  The Hop’s new director will be an intelligent thinker on cultural matters, with a national perspective and a compelling vision for how the Hop can best contribute to creative life on campus in the 21st century. The successful candidate will supp
  
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• Royal Academy show expands Abstract Expressionist canon

  19-09-2016 23:00
  The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) has assembled the first major exhibition of Abstract Expressionism in the UK in almost six decades, comprising more than 150 paintings, sculptures and photographs. Simply titled Abstract Expressionism, the show includes works by the biggest namesJackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothkoas well as lesser-known contemporaries such as Sam Francis and Minor White.
  It aims to revise some common ideas about the movement and to re-evaluate labels that have divided a
  
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• Pompidou’s Magritte survey presents pictures that are never quite what they seem

  19-09-2016 23:00
  The Centre Pompidou takes a philosophical view of the Belgian surrealist Ren Magritte in a show on the betrayal of images. The phrase comes from one of Magrittes best-known paintings, La Trahison des Images (1929), depicting a large pipe with the words Ceci nest pas une pipe. This loan comes from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
  With 100 works, the show examines Magrittes main motifs, which he endlessly shuffled and rearranged. They include curtains, shadows, words and  flames. Two lo
  
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• How a sculptor makes painting come alive

  19-09-2016 23:00
  The sculptor and designer Isabelle de Borchgrave takes inspiration from paintings commissioned by the Medici, which she then realises as papier-mch dresses. In this clip, she discusses her process and what drew her to the Renaissance banking family.
  
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• A waterfront show on the global water crisis

  19-09-2016 23:00
  
  This week, the Berlin-based American documentary photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz will light up the East River and illuminate worldwide environmental issues in an outdoor solo exhibition, Water Stories: the Global Water Crisis in Pictures (21 September-12 October 2016). Sixty-eight images that capture the global water crisisfrom poisoned marigold fields in Kanpur, India to polluted rivers in So Paolo, Brazil that provide 21 million people with waterwill be presented in large-scale light boxes al
  
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• The Latest Hotel Amenity? Artists In Residence

  19-09-2016 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As hotels work harder to distinguish themselves in the age of Airbnb, many have focused on using local art to give their décor a one-of-a-kind look. But with artist-in-residence programs, some hotels in the United States and abroad are going further, aiming to make the art experience even more immersive for guests.”
  
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• Three films to watch out for from the Toronto International Film Festivals

  19-09-2016 22:57
  
  The Toronto International Film Festival ended on Sunday, after screening hundreds of independent and mainstream films, shorts and documentaries. As always, art found a way into the programme. Here is our selection of three art-related films to look out for. I Had Nowhere to Go, directed by Douglas Gordon
  In this piece by the Glaswegian multi-media artist Douglas Gordon, the film historian Jonas Mekas reads from his 1991 memoir detailing the anguished war years in Lithuania and a battered 1
  
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• Three films to watch out for from the Toronto International Film Festival

  19-09-2016 22:57
  
  The Toronto International Film Festival ended on Sunday, after screening hundreds of independent and mainstream films, shorts and documentaries. As always, art found a way into the programme. Here is our selection of three art-related films to look out for. I Had Nowhere to Go, directed by Douglas Gordon
  In this piece by the Glaswegian multi-media artist Douglas Gordon, the film historian Jonas Mekas reads from his 1991 memoir detailing the anguished war years in Lithuania and a battered 1
  
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• Andrew Ginzel’s Nearly Exhaustive List of ‘NYC Selected Shows to See’ Is Resurrected, Without the Lengthy Emails

  19-09-2016 22:48 via artnews.com
  'The notion was that if one could see everything, one could have a general knowledge of what was going on in New York' Read More
  
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• Palmyra’s Triumphal Arch rises again in New York

  19-09-2016 22:39
  
  As the UN General Assembly started in New York, during which hundreds of diplomatic and political dignitaries gather for a week-long discussion on key global issues such as terrorism, a reproduction of the Roman Triumphal Arch of Palmyra, a 2,000-year-old structure in Syria that was destroyed by Isis last year, was unveiled on Monday at City Hall Park in New York.
  The rebuilding of the arch, given the climate in the city following the explosion of homemade terrorist bombs in Manhattan and New Je
  
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• Miles Davis, Sorcerer Of Jazz

  19-09-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Davis became known as “the sorcerer” because of his alchemical flair for transforming the humblest of materials—a Tin Pan Alley song, a simple bass line, even another musician’s wrong note—into an exalted form of expression. Shy to the point of taciturnity, he rarely spoke to his sidemen, except to offer the occasional cryptic instruction—“play [guitar] like you don’t know how to play the guitar,” he told the guitarist John McLaughlin&
  
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• Kansas Gallery Closes After Five Years of Business in New York

  19-09-2016 20:55 via artnews.com
  Change continues to rock Manhattan’s Lower East Side art district, as Kansas announced this afternoon that it will shut its doors, in an email that features a photo of a handsome and relaxed President Barack Obama waving as he boards … Read More
  
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• A sculptor’s space: inside the home of Helaine Blumenfeld

  19-09-2016 19:15
  
  Dotted with abstract marble forms, Helaine Blumenfeld’s grand Cambridge home is full of surprisesHelaine Blumenfeld’s house is well disguised. It lies behind a high stone wall in the centre of Grantchester, the little village outside Cambridge that has long been a favourite with students on a pre-pub stroll. Visitors enter through a little gate into a sprawling, slightly overgrown garden that surrounds the whole house. Blumenfeld’s sculptures stand in leafy corners. On a hot Au
  
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• Hassan Sharif, a Pioneer of Conceptual Art in the Middle East, Dies at 65

  19-09-2016 18:35 via artnews.com
  Hassan Sharif, perhaps the most important artist ever to come out of the United Arab Emirates, whose work revolutionized conceptual art in the Middle East, and whose assemblages tackled modernization and overproduction, died in Dubai yesterday. He was 65. Alexander … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Obsessions—A Look at Sean Kelly’s James Joyce Collection

  19-09-2016 18:16 via artnews.com
  ‘I realized, sort of too late, that I was completely obsessed with Joyce’ Read More
  
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• Habitat: Obsessions—Artists, Curators, and Dealers Share Their Unusual Collections

  19-09-2016 18:14 via artnews.com
  While this issue of ARTnews focuses on today’s prominent art collectors, the urge to amass objects—both valuable and not—is nearly as old as mankind. The ancient Greeks and Romans collected, as Erin Thompson writes in her recently published book Possession: … Read More
  
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• Here’s the Artist List for the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale

  19-09-2016 17:55 via artnews.com
  The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, which has quickly become one of the most closely watched regularly scheduled international exhibitions after its first two editions, announced plans today for its third, which will run from December 12, 2016, through March 29, 2017, in … Read More
  
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• Edward Morris obituary

  19-09-2016 17:15
  
  There was always something boyish about my friend and colleague, the art historian and curator Edward Morris, who has died aged 75 – an element of the Peter Pan, never old and never young. He was rather gawky, and there was a physical discomfort about him, as though he did not quite fit himself.He was long on dense emails and short on conversation, his profound shyness and self-effacing modesty masking a deep well of determination and commitment and a fount of kindness. These elements were
  
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• Picasso ceramics that fired up Richard Attenborough head to auction

  19-09-2016 16:39
  
  The late, great British actor and director Richard Attenborough was ahead of the curve when it came to Picasso ceramics. Sixty-seven lots from the collection that he and his wife Sheila built over 50 yearsstarting in 1954 with a 30-franc (3) ashtray of a bird catching a wormare coming to auction at Sothebys London on 22 November with an estimated combined total in the region of 1.5m. The Attenboroughs first visit to the Madoura pottery studio in Vallauris, where Picasso dabbled in the medium fr
  
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• 'We all come from the same place': Gustavo Aceves unveils migration crisis artwork in Rome

  19-09-2016 16:36
  
  Huge equine sculptures, installed among ancient Roman monuments, reference the struggle of millions of migrants. ‘I wanted this work to be an awakening,’ says the Mexican artistFew pieces of art have borne witness to the movement, progress and tragedies of history quite like the four bronze horses of St Mark. Related: What the Brandenburg Gate's pop-up horses say about the state of Berlin's public artContinue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: K-Pop Edition

  19-09-2016 15:54 via artnews.com
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• Autocorrect: The Politics of Museum Collection Re-Hangs

  19-09-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Ann Temkin, chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, recently framed the curator’s central dilemma in terms of the problem of storage: at any given moment, only a tiny fraction of a … Read More
  
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• Reality is officially more powerful than art – but only just

  19-09-2016 15:29
  
  Research finds people react more calmly to art images than real-life ones. But art isn’t about cool contemplation – it’s a red-blooded reframing of emotionThe other day I watched stuff turn into art when I saw Tracey Emin assemble My Bed, one of the most controversial readymades ever created. At the start of her installation there was a mattress on a plinth and two tables of carefully bagged objects. By the time she’d finished, My Bed was something special – it was
  
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• Stefan Kalmár to Become Director of ICA, Leaving New York’s Artists Space

  19-09-2016 15:12 via artnews.com
  London’s nabbed one of Gotham’s finest: After seven years as the executive director of Artists Space, Stefan Kalmár will take over as the head of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. He succeeds Gregor Muir, who left the ICA in … Read More
  
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• Letters reveal English artist's unsporting attacks on Picasso

  19-09-2016 14:01
  
  Correspondence of Sir Alfred Munnings, whose paintings of horses fetch millions, are up for auction in LondonDamning condemnations of Pablo Picasso and modernism have emerged from previously unpublished letters written by Sir Alfred Munnings, president of the Royal Academy of Arts in the 1940s.Munnings is regarded as the finest sporting artist of the 20th century. His 1921 painting, The Red Prince Mare, became the world’s most expensive sporting painting when it sold in 2004 for $7.84m (&p
  
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• Stefan Kalmár appointed as new director of the ICA

  19-09-2016 14:00
  
  Head of Artists Space in New York will succeed Gregor Muir in role as organisation celebrates its 70th anniversaryStefan Kalmár, an art world insider described as a “true innovator”, has been appointed director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.Kalmár comes to the ICA from Artists Space in New York, which he has run since 2009. His appointment is the latest move in a musical chairs of contemporary art curators. He succeeds Gregor Muir, who will join Tate as
  
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• Stefan Kalmár named director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London

  19-09-2016 13:24
  
  Stefan Kalmr has been appointed the next director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London it was announced today (19 September). He succeeds Gregor Muir, who heads to the Tate in January as director of the museums international collection.
   
  German-born Kalmr comes from Artists Space in New York, the much-lauded non-profit gallery that was founded in SoHo in 1972 with a focus on emerging artists. Kalmr is widely credited with transforming the venue at the height of the recess
  
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• Greek collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos funds new cultural centre in Athens

  19-09-2016 12:00
  
  In the past, Neona non-profit contemporary art organisation founded in 2013 by the Greek collector Dimitris Daskalopouloshas stuck to temporary projects such as organising exhibitions and sponsoring talks programmes, scholarships and curatorial awards. Now, it is turning its attention to a more permanent initiative having funded a new cultural centre in Athens, due to open on 24 September.Neon has collaborated with the Athens Conservatoire, one of the oldest foundations for music and drama educ
  
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• Hassan Sharif, the godfather of conceptual art in the Gulf, has died

  19-09-2016 11:32
  
  The Emirati artist Hassan Sharifwho is recognised as a trailblazer of conceptual art in the Middle Eastdied yesterday (18 September), aged 65. The Dubai-based polymath, whose work encompassed painting, performance, assemblage and installation, was a giant in terms of art in the UAE, says Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, the founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, which includes several works by the artist.Sharifs career began in the late 1970s as a satirical caricaturist, drawing cartoons for the Akhbar
  
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• Bedlam: The Asylum and Beyond review – missed opportunity to truly explore mental health

  19-09-2016 09:26
  
  Wellcome Collection, London
  This jumbled exhibition tracking changing attitudes to mental illness could have been a powerful study of Bedlam and psychiatry. Instead it fails to make sense of the real place and the myth Sir Alexander Morison stands tall and sombre with his top hat in his left hand and a white handkerchief in his right. His eyes are grey and slightly sunken, his lips thin, his face long and gaunt. He seems marked by the sadness of his profession. For Morison was an “alienist
  
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• Taking over the asylum: art made at Bedlam and beyond – in pictures

  19-09-2016 08:00
  
  A new exhibition collects together work made by inmates of mental hospitals – which is often startlingly detailed and fiercely lucid Continue reading...
  
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• John Olsen: The You Beaut Country review – celebrating 65 years of the grand old man of Australian art

  19-09-2016 07:07
  
  From young radical to arguably Australia’s greatest living artist, the NGV retrospective of the octogenarian’s work spans the intimate, the nonconformist and the majestic • Gallery: The outback, the frogs and the golden summers: the art of John Olsen – in picturesThe saying goes that the only difference between a radical and a conservative is 10 years. For John Olsen, the 65 years of his exhibiting career charts the journey from young radical to the beret-topped bohemian p
  
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• National Gallery of Australia returns Indian antiquities worth more than $2m

  19-09-2016 06:45
  
  Artefacts purchased from disgraced art dealer Subhash Kapoor, including statues of Pratyangira and Buddha, returned in a handback ceremonyThe National Gallery of Australia returned artefacts from its troubled Asian art collection to India at a handback ceremony in Canberra on Monday.Two pieces, a 900-year-old stone statue of the Goddess Pratyangira and a third-century rock carving of Worshippers of the Buddha, were purchased from disgraced art dealer Subhash Kapoor in 2005 for $328,000 and $790,
  
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• And The Winners Are …

  19-09-2016 05:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Basically, The People v. O.J. Simpson cleaned up at the Emmys. Did anyone else win? Check the list.
  
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