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• New Tech Has Unlocked A View Of The Elaborate Ancient Cities Of Cambodia

  20-09-2016 23:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Aerial laser scans of the region have given archaeologists “an unprecedented new understanding of what the Khmer empire looked like at the apex of its power, with lidar-generated maps revealing an intricate urban landscape stretching across several provinces of modern-day Cambodia, along with a sophisticated network of canals, earthworks and dams that the Angkorians used to control the flow of water.”
  
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• Nathalie Du Pasquier at Exile, Berlin

  20-09-2016 23:50 via artnews.com
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• Embarrassed Egyptian Government Bans Unauthorized Public Sculptures

  20-09-2016 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A cabinet official who asked to remain anonymous said Wednesday’s decision came after “the repeated setting up in the country’s squares of bad statues that do not conform with Egypt’s deep-rooted history”. The controversial statue of a soldier hugging a woman from behind in Sohag’s town of Balyana was the latest in a series of statues that have become a laughingstock on social media.
  
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• ‘New Now’ Sale at Phillips Takes in $2.8 M. Amidst a Slumping Market for Past Auction Darlings

  20-09-2016 23:29 via artnews.com
  “New Now,” Phillips’ sale geared toward emerging artists, pulled in $2.8 million on afternoon after offering 202 lots, putting it squarely between its low estimate of $2.4 million and its high estimate of $3.5 million. The sell-through rate was a respectable 74 … Read More
  
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• Why Sergei Polunin Made A Movie – And Why He Thinks Dancers Need More Movies

  20-09-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I thought of building a better system, like the movie industry. I talked to David, and he asked, “Do you have an agent?” When I told him no, he said, “How do you guys get work if you don’t have an agent?” Then I talked to Ralph Fiennes and found out he has huge support; he has managers and agents and a company. Dancers don’t have that, and I realized that’s the key. That’s what we need to create, because that creates the industry.”
  
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• Whatever happened to baby’s Brillo Box?

  20-09-2016 23:00
  
  Imagine if you had baby pictures of yourself posing on top of an Andy Warhol Brillo Box, knowing that the work was traded away and eventually sold for millions by a subsequent owner decades later. This unusual situation prompted the filmmaker Lisanne Skyler to write, produce and direct the HBO documentary Brillo Box (3 Off), named for the Andy Warhol piece that her father snapped up for $1,000 as a young collector in 1969 and which was auctioned at Christies in New York in November 2010 for ove
  
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• Wellbeing at the heart of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts extension

  20-09-2016 23:00
  
  It is already the largest museum complex in Quebec, but the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is about to not only get bigger but also holistic, with the launch of its fifth pavilion in November. The museums director, Nathalie Bondil, recently took us on a tour of the light-filled but still largely empty Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace.
  This work fits in perfectly, Bondil said, standing under Jean-Michel Othoniels mirrored glass sculpture Peony, The Knot of Shame (2013). In Chi
  
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• Viennacontemporary triumphs in round two

  20-09-2016 23:00
  
  Last autumn saw the battle of the art fairs in Vienna, as the city hosted the inaugural Viennacontemporary and the decade-old Viennafair within weeks of each other. This year only Viennacontemporary will go ahead after Viennafair was cancelled in the wake of disappointing sales.Despite Viennafairs demise, its old management team is still in business. After failing to secure their venue and scheduling of choice for Viennafair, they were in fact behind the launch of Viennacontemporary in 2015. Re
  
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• James Richards and the Lexington Mafia at the ICA

  20-09-2016 23:00
  
  The first-floor Academy Club, situated up a rickety staircase on Sohos Lexington Street, and its mother ship Andrew Edmunds restaurant, are both best known as haunts for Londons loucher literati. But at Londons Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) yesterday it was revealed that these intertwined establishments have also been a valuable seedbed for contemporary art. At the lunch to celebrate James Richardss mesmerising new ICA show was longstanding Lexington Streeter Sir Norman Rosenthalwhose ar
  
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• Interview: David Adjaye and Theaster Gates on working in Washington, DC

  20-09-2016 23:00
  
  The London-based architect David Adjaye and the Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates sit at the forefront of a cultural resurgence in the capital of the US. On 24 September, Adjaye unveils his latest and most keenly anticipated project: the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The buildings three-tiered shape is inspired by crowns found in the Yoruban art of West Africa; the lattice exterior references metalwork created by enslaved African-Americans in the southern US.
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• Atlanta’s High Museum streamlines admission to $14.50 for everyone

  20-09-2016 23:00
  
  The High Museum of Art in Atlanta announced on Wednesday that it will drop its admission price to $14.50 for all visitors over the age of 6. The change goes into effect on 1 October and offers access to the entire museum and temporary exhibitions.
  The move seeks to streamline the current ticketing scheme at the High Museum, which charges $19.50 for adult visitors, $16.50 for seniors and students, and $12 for children aged 6-17. Curiously, the new pricing means children who are not students will
  
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• Celebrity Art Explained: How The Mona Lisa Got To Be A Superstar

  20-09-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Eighty percent of visitors to the Louvre go just to see the Mona Lisa. But is it really THAT much better than all the other art? Herein a cynic’s explanation for why Lisa gets all the attention.
  
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• If Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Their Babies Born So Dumb And Helpless?

  20-09-2016 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A baby giraffe can stand within an hour of birth, and can even potentially flee predators on its first day of life. A monkey can grasp its mother and hang on for protection and nourishment. A human infant can’t even hold up its own head. … Humans are born quite helpless, far more so than any other primate, but, fairly early on, we start becoming quite smart, again far more so than any other primate. What if this weren’t a contradiction so much as a causal pathway?&rdquo
  
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• Businesses Stress Culture In Hiring (And Here’s Where It Can Get Tricky)

  20-09-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Agencies’ only asset is their people, so it makes sense to put a premium on the the multitude of intangibles that make up “culture.” After all, it’s hard to get through an issue of Harvard Business Review without coming across an article related to corporate culture. But for some, the focus on culture is often a way to keep out people not like those hiring.”
  
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• Procrastination: A Philosophical Meditation

  20-09-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Idleness is difficult to find in a pure state. Indeed, in a certain sense, it eludes us because, at its most radical, idleness tends to devour its devotees (again, Oblomov and Bartleby). But procrastination is a different business altogether: It is not only more available, but also more dynamic, just as the procrastinator is a more dramatic figure than the idler, who is as ascetic and immobile as a pillar saint.”
  
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• Can Someone Please Stop the Construction of Thomas Heatherwick’s $150 M. Monstrosity in Manhattan?

  20-09-2016 20:58 via artnews.com
  When plans for Thomas Heatherwick’s $150 million public sculpture for the Hudson Yards real-estate development in Manhattan were unveiled to the public last week, my jaw dropped. The project, titled Vessel, is so ridiculously over-the-top and so breathtakingly ill-conceived that … Read More
  
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• Long-Awaited Louvre Abu Dhabi Finally Has A Director

  20-09-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Since 2013, Rabaté has been the director of Agence France-Muséums, the French government agency charged with the Louvre Abu Dhabi project. He graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, and has worked at the Musée du Louvre and Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.
  
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• How TV And The Movies Wore Out Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’

  20-09-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s a fine song, but “it has soundtracked dozens of deaths and breakups, and been belted in too many singing competitions to count. Because it telegraphs emotion – both mournful and hopeful – and involves some vocal acrobatics, it has become shorthand for Big Emotional Moment and employed by performers looking to stamp themselves with authenticity. Here’s a brief history of how pop culture has tortured Mr. Cohen’s creation over the years.”
  
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• Fierce Grief: Pulse Nightclub, Activism, And The Ways That Gay Folks Mourn

  20-09-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If there is a distinctive power to queer grief, it lies in the styles of mourning that have emerged from queer cultures over time. These styles set the shape and tone of the activism that comes out of grief – and activism, of course, is itself a type of mourning. To address Polgreen’s question, we must examine how queerness behaves when it is at a loss. How a community grieves can tell us a lot about who they are.”
  
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• Jared Leto Will Play Andy Warhol in an Upcoming Biopic

  20-09-2016 19:47 via artnews.com
  “It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented,” Andy Warhol once said. “They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and … Read More
  
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• The Incomparable, Insufferable Lou Reed

  20-09-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Few personalities – particularly as one as protean and occasionally as brilliant as Reed’s – can be summed up in two syllables. But if you were to do a word cloud of memories of Reed in the various volumes that have been published on his life, the word asshole would turn up in surprisingly large type.”
  
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• The Compleat MoMA Online – An “Exhibition Of Ghosts Created By Ghosts”

  20-09-2016 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Museum of Modern Art puts records of every exhibition it has ever presented online. These photos of paintings hanging in galleries are erie, writes Robinson Meyer, and they say  a lot about what curators of the day were thinking about how to look at art. How “modern” of them..
  
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• The Architect Who Brought Grand Central Station And Eliis Island Back To Life: John Belle, 84

  20-09-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Grand Central Terminal, the main building on Ellis Island and the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden – all among the greatest New York City landmarks – look better today than they have since their earliest years. Many hands were responsible. John Belle was the common denominator. Mr. Belle, the retired founding partner of Beyer Blinder Belle, … died last week at 84.”
  
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• Dropping The Naked Ladies Was A Good Move For ‘Playboy’

  20-09-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Americans are liking what they are not seeing in Playboy. The 63-year-old men’s magazine has seen newsstand sales jump 28.4 percent in the first six months after its decision to drop nude photos from its pages, industry statistics show.”
  
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• Could This Really Be True? In The Gig Economy Jazz Instructors Can Make More Than Lawyers

  20-09-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “FlexJobs came up with a list of 10 of the best-paying part-time jobs based on real job listings from over 40,000 companies… For instance, you stand to make more money as a part-time jazz instructor than you can as a government contracts attorney. Part time clinical pharmacists make almost as much as part-time dentists.”
  
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• Frieze London 2016 to feature Julie Verhoeven lavatory intervention

  20-09-2016 17:15
  
  Political work on toilet attendants will be at Frieze alongside seminal 90s art from Wolfgang Tillmans and Richard BillinghamVisitors to one of the world’s most important art fairs are used to seeing artists and curators plying their trade everywhere they look. This year artists will be working the toilets, too.Organisers of London’s Frieze art fair have commissioned the artist Julie Verhoeven to make an intervention in one of its lavatories. Related: How the world caught up with Wol
  
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• Abstract Expressionism review – crammed in a room with the big men of US art

  20-09-2016 16:56
  
  Royal Academy of Arts, LondonIt is packed with thrilling works by Pollock, Rothko and the rest, but this major exhibition is also overloaded and erratic – with little space for female artistsThere are beautiful, marvellous and terrifying things in the Royal Academy’s much-trumpeted survey of Abstract Expressionism. What more could one ask in a show including the explosive and tender Jackson Pollock; De Kooning swerving and jumbling and dismembering his frightening figures of women; R
  
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• The Coming V&A Branch Museum In Scotland

  20-09-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On the north bank of the River Tay, Scotland’s new museum of design is taking shape. Designed by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, it resembles a beached ship. The first major project by a London museum in Scotland, the V&A Museum of Design Dundee represents an opportunity to show the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) to a new audience in the UK. The process has not been without bumps.”
  
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• The Broad Reports Attendance of 820,000 in First Year

  20-09-2016 16:24 via artnews.com
  The Broad museum in Los Angeles sent out an email blast this morning trumpeting news that it welcomed more than 820,000 people in its first year in operation, a formidable figure for a one-year-old private museum.That number is no doubt … Read More
  
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• She’s Almost As Curvy As The Venus Of Willendorf, And She’s At Least 7,500 Years Old

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  “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 carving and its intact condition.”
  
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• Habitat: Obsessions—A Look at Michael Kohn’s Model Trains

  20-09-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Habitat: Obsessions is a ten-part series of visits to the surprising non-art collections of art-world professionals.Los Angeles dealer Michael Kohn has had an interest in toy trains since he was a kid. His brother, ten years his senior, collected them. About 15 years … Read More
  
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• L.A.’s The Wallis Finally Gets Its Artistic Director

  20-09-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Paul] Crewes, formerly the head of the innovative, Tony-nominated U.K.-based company Kneehigh Theatre, is something of a ‘get’ for the Wallis [Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills] … When it opened in 2013 after more than a decade of fundraising and planning, the more than $70-million startup got off to a bumpy start . While its campus was tricked out with two theaters, costume, wig and prop shops, an educational wing, a spacious promenade terrace
  
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• With Contract Expired, Pittsburgh Symphony Musicians And Management Agree To Talk-And-Play

  20-09-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s musicians and management have agreed to continue the private negotiations about the musicians’ expiring contract. The pact was already extended by two weeks on Sept. 4 and was set to expire at midnight tonight.”
  
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• Newly-Discovered Beethoven Manuscript Goes Up For Auction

  20-09-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A newly-discovered sketch leaf by Beethoven for one of his greatest works, the ‘Emperor’ concerto, is heading for auction at Sotheby’s. The manuscript is one of the earliest for this piece, possibly containing Beethoven’s first draft of its famous themes. It is undocumented, unpublished, and new to auction.”
  
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• Morning Links: Bursting Emerging-Art Bubble Edition

  20-09-2016 14:41 via artnews.com
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• $104,000 For Taxis: Auditors Blast Benjamin Millepied’s Paris Opera Ballet For Spending

  20-09-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On Thursday, France’s state auditors, the Cour des Comptes, lambasted 10 directors for running up nearly €93,350 [$104,281] in taxi bills between them in 2013 and 2014 … [as well as meals worth] about €52,000 [$58,000] in 2014by just four members of staff.”
  
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• Raga Dawn: the poetry fighting against Brexit-era xenophobia

  20-09-2016 14:27
  
  Staged on the Thames estuary, Caroline Bergvall’s Raga Dawn is a blend of poetry, music and performance art that mashes up English, Punjabi and Romansh. She explains why she’s opposing ‘isolationist pride’It’s 6.38am on Sunday morning and a crowd is gathered at the water’s edge. “Seek sunrise in all that we are,” incants a gentle voice. “Seek dawn in all that we do. Wake up. Wake up.”What sounds like a yoga lesson on the beaches of Ibiz
  
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• A polyphonic dawn chorus in the Essex edgelands

  20-09-2016 14:27
  
  Caroline Bergvall’s Raga Dawn is a mash-up of English, Punjabi and Romansh, poetry, music and performance art. She explains why she’s opposing ‘isolationist pride’ on the spot where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948 It’s 6.38am on Sunday morning and a crowd is gathered at the water’s edge. “Seek sunrise in all that we are,” incants a gentle voice. “Seek dawn in all that we do. Wake up. Wake up.”What sounds like a yoga lesson on the bea
  
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• On The Competitive Pro-Am Ballroom Dance Circuit

  20-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Couples are everywhere, moving fast and vying for the judges’ attention. You have no control over the music – please, you think, just let it have a discernible beat. You’re counting – ‘1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8’ in your head, and your teacher is hissing in your ear to get your head back out of her space and keep your frame up.”
  
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• Eight Diversity Takeaways From The 2016 Emmys

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  “Last night, as Rami Malek, Courtney B. Vance, Regina King, and Sterling K. Brown all won major acting awards, Alan Yang and Aziz Ansari picked up recognition for their writing, and Key & Peele won for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series, the inclusiveness of the ceremony really did seem worth celebrating. But how diverse were this year’s winners, really? And how did they compare to years before?”
  
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• London Has A Plan For ‘Artist Zones’ To Shield Creatives From Ever-Rising Rents

  20-09-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Dedicated ‘artist zones’ could be created in areas such as Hackney Wick and Peckham to offer protection against developers and soaring rents, under proposals being worked on by the deputy mayor for culture.”
  
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• Brazil’s Top Telenovela Star Drowns On Set As Bystanders Think He’s Shooting A Scene

  20-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Domingos] Montagner played the leading role in Velho Chico, a soap opera named after the São Francisco river where he died. The 54-year-old had gone for a swim with an actress after a day of shooting in the north-eastern state of Sergipe. … The actress, Camila Pitanga, cried for help but local people failed to act initially as they believed the drowning was a scene in the soap opera.”
  
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• Carl Andre's Equivalent VIII: the most boring controversial artwork ever | Jonathan Jones

  20-09-2016 13:05
  
  BBC4 is revisiting the hoo-ha over Carl Andre’s ‘pile of bricks’, which angered conservative art lovers in the 1970s. But the real scandal is that we’re still talking about this banal artworkMost works of art that cause controversy are by their nature sensational. They are sexually graphic, or violent, or politically contentious. Carl Andre’s Equivalent VIII is different. It is the most boring controversial artwork of all time. Related: Who’s Afraid of Concept
  
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• Carl Andre's Equivalent VIII: the most boring controversial artwork ever

  20-09-2016 13:05
  
  BBC4 is revisiting the hoo-ha over Carl Andre’s ‘pile of bricks’, which angered conservative art lovers in the 1970s. But the real scandal is that we’re still talking about this banal artworkMost works of art that cause controversy are by their nature sensational. They are sexually graphic, or violent, or politically contentious. Carl Andre’s Equivalent VIII is different. It is the most boring controversial artwork of all time. Related: Who’s Afraid of Concept
  
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• Manuel Rabaté appointed director of Louvre Abu Dhabi

  20-09-2016 12:38
  
  The French museum professional Manuel Rabat has been appointed the director of the Louvre Abu Dhabi in advance of its opening next year on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates. Hissa Al Dhaheri, a UAE national, has been named as the deputy director.Since 2013, Rabat has been the director of Agence France-Musums, the French government agency charged with the Louvre Abu Dhabi project. He graduated from the Institut dEtudes Politiques de Paris, and has worked at the Muse du Louvre and Muse
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.19.16

  20-09-2016 11:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  What Neuroscientists Know About The Brain And Creativity: It’s Disruptive, Not Systematic
  It appears many of us want a formula for creativity. There are 11,386 books on creativity for sale on Amazon, most of them promising to unlock the secrets of being creative. Scientists studying how the brain works are … read more
  AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennanPublished 2016-09-19Kraftwerk at the Hollywood Bowl
  Krautrock has rarely been my cup of ale … But I’ve heard
  
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• Rosa Barba examines the everyday chaos of São Paulo's 'giant earthworm' highway

  20-09-2016 11:00
  
  She’s explored cities around the world, and now the Italian artist has cast her eye on the Minhocão, a controversial emblem of a splendidly untidy megalopolisIn the center of the largest city in Latin America, amid a forest of closely packed towers, snakes an elevated highway of more than three kilometers, slicing from east to west. During the week the traffic rumbles past apartment blocks, and cars swing by the upper floors so closely that residents can almost touch them as they wh
  
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• Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art? review – a daft idea is not art

  20-09-2016 08:20
  
  Shards of sanity occasionally poked through the foaming sea of artistic madness in this exploration of 100 years of conceptualismWhen it comes to the question “What is art?”, I stand firmly in the camp of Jack Donaghy, head of TV and microwave programming in 30 Rock. It is pictures of horses. If you push us, we will accept pictures of ships with sails or men holding up swords while staring off into the distance, but further than that we will not go.Art historian Dr James Fox feels ba
  
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