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• What to see in DC this autumn, from rare Korans to durational performance

  25-09-2016 23:00
  
  Ragnar KjartanssonHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (14 October-8 January 2017)
  Ragnar Kjartanssons first major US retrospective opens at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden this month. A rotating cast of local musicians will perform Woman in E (2016), a new work in which a sequin-clad woman strums an E-minor chord over and over on a rotating pedestal during opening hours. Artworks by African Americans from the CollectionSmithsonian American Art Museum (until 28 February 2017)
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• Washington, DC

  25-09-2016 23:00
  All roads lead to the US capital this autumn
  
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• The vicissitudes of Caravaggio: how the National Gallery capitalised on—and missed—opportunities to acquire works by the master

  25-09-2016 23:00
  
  Next month, the National Gallery in London opens Beyond Caravaggio, an exhibition that looks at the many talented painters who followed the Italian baroque master (12 October-15 January 2017). The show includes 49 works, borrowed mostly from UK institutions, by artists like Orazio Gentileschi, Jusepe de Ribera and Valentin de Boulogne. In this excerpt from the exhibition's catalogue, the curator Letizia Treves discusses how British collectors developed a taste for Carvaggio's work, even as othe
  
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• The hallowed and violent history of Jerusalem

  25-09-2016 23:00
  The broken dream of harmony between the three great Abrahamic religions has cast a shadow over the modern world. We can conquer disease, reduce starvation and transgress the physical limitations of our terrestrial boundaries, but we seem unable to accept the common morality that binds together Christian, Jew and Muslim.
  The title of the exhibition Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven, which opens on 26 September at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may lead you to expect a medieval worl
  
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• Something for the weekend at Sunday’s launch of The Gallery of Everything

  25-09-2016 23:00
  
  The notion of something for the weekend? assumed a less risqu dimension at the former Marios Barber Shop on Chiltern Street in Londons Marylebone. Tea and biscuits were the only things dispensed at the Sunday afternoon opening of the shops new incarnation as James Bretts The Gallery of Everything. This emporium of outsider art describes itself as Londons first commercial gallery dedicated to non-academic artists and private art makers.
  Also presiding over the yesterdays (25 September) unveiling
  
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• See how Washington's National Gallery of Art has grown

  25-09-2016 23:00
  From the outside, not much has changed. After a three-year, $69m renovation, the East Building of the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, looks about the same as it did when it first opened in June 1978. The I.M. Pei-designed building, dedicated to the museums collection of Modern art, still comprises two triangular blocks of stone, with the architects signature glass pyramids at its front entrance.
  Step inside and the differences become clear. The gallery, which reopened to the pu
  
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• Pierre Bonnard: easily misrepresented

  25-09-2016 23:00
  
  Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia is the catalogue that accompanied the major exhibition of the same name organised in 2015 by the Muse dOrsay, Paris, with the Fundaion Mapfre, Madrid, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It is laid out in much the same way as the exhibition that is to say, thematically.
  It begins with Bonnards Nabis years in the 1890s before tracing his career through subjects such as interiors, nudes and portraits. In his opening essay, Guy Cogeval, the president of the
  
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• New York museum and galleries celebrate Richard Pousette-Dart centenary

  25-09-2016 23:00
  
  The Whitney Museum is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the American painter Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) with an evening symposium on his legacy. Among the speakers are the painter Christopher Wool, who studied under Pousette-Dart as an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College, Adam Weinberg, the Whitneys director, Jennifer Powell, a senior curator at the museum and Patti Trimble, a former studio assistant of the artists. The talk takes places on 29 September.The event will
  
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• How the Corcoran’s art gained a second lease of life

  25-09-2016 23:00
  
  Institutions, like Hemingway characters, fail two ways: gradually, then suddenly. In early 2014, the beleaguered Corcoran Gallery and School of Art in Washington, DC, having exhausted every option for saving itself, agreed to a takeover by George Washington University and the National Gallery of Art (NGA). The university absorbed the school and $48m in cash and endowment as well as the Corcorans Beaux-Arts building across the street from the White House. The NGA agreed to run the Corcorans form
  
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• Creative Time goes to Washington

  25-09-2016 23:00
  
  The Black Lives Matter activist Alicia Garza and the artist Carrie Mae Weems are among dozens of speakers who will descend on the capital of the US for the ninth annual Creative Time Summit (14-16 October). The New York-based non-profit organisation is holding the event in Washington for the first time, weeks before the countrys presidential election. The summit focuses largely on the grassroots movement and how theyve infiltrated our political systems and this particular political climate, say
  
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• Bigger than the Broad: Glenstone is about to become one of America's biggest museums

  25-09-2016 23:00
  
  Glenstone, the private museum in rural Potomac, Maryland, is undergoing a quiet but radical transformation. When its Thomas Phifer-designed expansion opens in early 2018, Glenstone will be one of the largest institutions of its kind in the US. It will offer nearly 60,000 sq. ft of exhibition spacemore than the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, the Broad in Los Angeles and even the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.There will be new things to see well before construction is complete. T
  
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• Bigger than the Broad: Glenstone in about to become one of America's biggest museums

  25-09-2016 23:00
  
  Glenstone, the private museum in rural Potomac, Maryland, is undergoing a quiet but radical transformation. When its Thomas Phifer-designed expansion opens in early 2018, Glenstone will be one of the largest institutions of its kind in the US. It will offer nearly 60,000 sq. ft of exhibition spacemore than the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, the Broad in Los Angeles and even the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.There will be new things to see well before construction is complete. T
  
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• On my radar: Jane Goldman’s cultural highlights

  25-09-2016 11:00
  
  The screenwriter on a great festival, shock horror Train to Busan, hacking TV drama Mr Robot and immersive theatre to die forBorn in London in 1970, screenwriter, producer and author Goldman began her writing career aged 16 when she left school and became a journalist, initially working as a showbiz reporter for the Daily Star. That same year she met Jonathan Ross in a nightclub, married him in Las Vegas aged 18 and went on to have three children with him. While the children were young, Goldman
  
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• To Be Modern

  25-09-2016 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To Be Modern
  New age illusionTo be modern;What we get?A run in a circle;What remains?A tortured soul,ANDNo bridge to take ahead or back The post To Be Modern appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Auctioneer Simon de Pury: ‘Owning art puts you on a different level’

  25-09-2016 10:00
  
  The Swiss art aficionado on how he got hooked, working for Leonardo DiCaprio and why he always eats an apple before a saleSimon de Pury, 65, is a Swiss baron, art auctioneer and collector who has been dubbed “the Mick Jagger of art auctions” because of his dynamic selling style (he is a DJ too). His new memoir, The Auctioneer: A Memoir of Great Art, Legendary Collectors and Record-Breaking Auctions, ghost-written by William Stadiem, gives us the view from the podium.To what exte
  
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• Abstract Expressionism review – a colossal event

  25-09-2016 09:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  It’s a thrill to see the wildly beautiful art of Pollock, Rothko, De Kooning et al up close. Though you can have too much of a good thing…There is an unnerving surprise at the start of this show. It is Mark Rothko’s self-portrait. The artist of those numinous veils of colour, his aims (and his rhetoric) so transcendent, turns out to be a big lug in a brown jacket who can’t draw his painting hand and botches his mouth. He is wearing tinted spectacles
  
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• The week in TV: Paranoid; National Treasure; Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art?; Airbnb: Dream or Nightmare?

  25-09-2016 08:00
  
  Two new dramas offered twists and fine casting in Indira Varma and Robbie Coltrane, while BBC4 rediscovered the fun of conceptual artParanoid (ITV) | ITV Hub
  National Treasure (C4) | All4
  Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art? (BBC4) | iPlayer
  Airbnb: Dream or Nightmare? (C4) | All4Two chewingly toothsome dramas, and for once not going up against each other. What happened to the traditional ITV/BBC Sunday and Monday night standoffs (one answer: Victoria is simply roistering it against Poldark). B
  
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• On the waterfront: Lisbon's riverside regeneration

  25-09-2016 08:00
  
  Boyd Tonkin finds great buildings, a bold new art gallery and custard pies to die for in Portugal’s capitalEveryone in Lisbon says that, since Portugal’s great age of exploration, the city has looked far out to sea. It took a hand-written list of pratos de dia outside a little restaurant on the Rua das Janelas Verdes – Street of Green Shutters – to add spice to that truism for me. Today’s specials? “Tandoori chicken €6.50, pork saag €6.50, chicken da
  
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• Art show too male? At times, this cry makes no sense | Tiffany Jenkins

  25-09-2016 01:05
  
  Where are the women, ask the critics of London’s new blockbuster exhibition. Well, you can’t change history…‘Abstract expressionism,” wrote poet and curator Frank O’Hara, “is the art of serious men.” The bad boys of this great American art movement, including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, shifted the centre of western art from Paris to the US in the 1940s and 1950s and, more precisely, to New York, where they were well known
  
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