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• Fluxus is alive and well at New York university galleries

  29-09-2016 23:41
  
  The House of Dust, the 1967 mechanised poem by the Fluxus artists Alison Knowles and James Tenney, has been recreated for an exhibition at the James Gallery at the City University of New York (until 29 October).
  For the work, a Siemens 4004 machine generates a computerised poem using Fortran language on tractor-feed paper, beginning with the line a house of followed by a random sequence of words selected from a pre-programmed list that describe a material, a site or situation, a light source an
  
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• Suzanne Blank Redstone at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco

  29-09-2016 23:18 via artnews.com
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• Photographer Miles Ladin shows the tedious side of celebrity

  29-09-2016 23:00
  
  Supermodels at the End of Time at the Station Independent Projects in New York (7-30 October 2016) is a show of 29 images by the photographer Miles Ladin that aim to convey the ennui that celebrities must at times endure as they try to keep their fame afloat, Ladin told The Art Newspaper. One of the photographs, shot in 1994, shows Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista at the Museum of Modern of Art in New York for the premiere of the film In the Name of the Father, directed by Jim Sh
  
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• Personal and quirky: an account of J. M. W. Turner

  29-09-2016 23:00
  
  The publishers blurb for this weighty tome, Young Mr Turner: the First Forty Years, 1775-1815, announces that it supersedes much of the existing literature and will be the standard reference for many years to come. This throws down the gauntlet to a number of books published since Turners death in 1851, notably the voluminous writings of Ruskin, the thoroughgoing Life by A.J. Finberg, two recent biographies by James Hamilton and Anthony Bailey, and a number of studies of the paintings, prints a
  
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• Four gallery shows to see during London’s Italian art week

  29-09-2016 23:00
  
  As the international art world converges on London for Frieze and auction week, the citys major galleries are putting their best foot forward and organising exhibitions of Italian art to run concurrently with the Italian sales at Sothebys and Christies, which outperformed the post-war and contemporary evening auctions last year. Here is a run-down of the shows not to be missed:Alighiero Boetti
  4 October-27 January 2017Tornabuoni Art, 46 Albemarle StreetOne of the main names in Italian post-war
  
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• David Hockney’s Woldgate Woods could break auction record for artist

  29-09-2016 23:00
  
  David Hockney is man of the moment in the museum world, and now the art market is catching up. In New York in November, Sothebys is to sell the first painting in Hockneys Woldgate Woods series to appear at auction. Woldgate Woods, 24, 25 and 26 (2006) carries an estimate of $9m to $12mthe artists record at auction currently stands at $7.9m, although works have been selling privately for more than $10m, according to Oliver Barker, the co-chairman of Sothebys Europe.From an artistic perspective Ho
  
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• Catherine Pégard to continue as the president of Versailles for another three years

  29-09-2016 23:00
  
  The French ministry of culture has announced that Catherine Pgard will remain in post as the director of the Palace of Versailles, extending her contract for another three years.
  The French culture minister Audrey Azoulay says in a statement that Pgard has cemented Versailless reputation both in France and across the world. Priorities for Pgard during her next term include diversifying audiences and allowing schools more access to the 17th-century site, Azoulay adds.
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• Art dealers emerge from the shadows

  29-09-2016 23:00
  The art dealer Virginia Dwan was not always widely known, even in art circles. In 2006, the dealer John Weber sat for an oral history interview for the Archives of American Art and discussed working for Dwan in Los Angeles. I really loved Virginia, still do, he said. She had such good taste, and she was really so sympathetic to the artist and very generous with her money. The interviewer, however, was unfamiliar with her. Is she alive still? he asked. (She was and is.)Dwan is now among a crop o
  
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• Norman Rockwell Museum Receives $1.5 M. Grant From George Lucas Family Foundation

  29-09-2016 22:39 via artnews.com
  Today,the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, announced it has received a $1.5 million grant from the George Lucas Family Foundation. The grant will be used to develop a set of interactive educational resources that the museum plans to use … Read More
  
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• Centre Pompidou to open museum in Brussels in former Citroën building

  29-09-2016 22:22
  
  The Centre Pompidou and the Brussels-Capital Region have signed a memorandum of understanding to open a Modern and contemporary art museum in a former Citron building in the Belgian capital, northwest of the citys centre, due to open in 2020. The news was announced at a press conference in Brussels on Thursday, 29 September by the museums director, Serge Lasvignes, and the Minister-President of the Brussels region, Rudi Vertvoort. The region acquired the 16,000 sq. m Art Deco-style building in
  
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• Team Gallery to Open Second L.A. Space in Historic Venice Beach Post Office

  29-09-2016 21:38 via artnews.com
  Two years after opening Team Bungalow steps off the main drag in Venice Beach, California, Team Gallery is opening another Los Angeles space just a few blocks away, a gallery representative told ARTnews in an email. The new space, dubbed Team … Read More
  
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• London Dealer Stuart Shave Now Reps Peter Halley and Josh Kline

  29-09-2016 20:00 via artnews.com
  Stuart Shave, the proprietor of the London gallery Modern Art, announced today that he now represents Peter Halley and Josh Kline. Both artists are currently based in New York.Kline has made the news quite a bit lately late, with a critically acclaimed show earlier … Read More
  
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• What does an emotion look like? London’s National Portrait Gallery gets abstract with Howard Hodgkin show

  29-09-2016 19:49
  
  The National Portrait Gallery in London is to stage its first exhibition of abstract works in 2017, dedicated to the unorthodox portraiture of the British painter Howard Hodgkin.
  The show, Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends (23 March-18 June 2017), focuses on an enduring yet relatively overlooked aspect of Hodgkins work. More than 55 works from 1949 to the present will explore his important contribution to our understanding of what constitutes a portrait, according to a statement from the gallery.
  
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• Apparently Ivanka Trump Is Taking Some Time Off From Her Dad’s Presidential Campaign to Buy Some Mediocre Art at Frieze

  29-09-2016 19:49 via artnews.com
  Six apartments that are for sale in London come with art on the walls. This is a cause for celebration! Here’s some info on the party, per the Evening Standard: About 500 have been invited to a lavish launch party in … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Obsessions—Barbara Bloom’s Collection of Braille Objects

  29-09-2016 17:59 via artnews.com
  Habitat: Obsessions is a ten-part series of visits to the surprising non-art collections of art-world professionals.Artist Barbara Bloom became interested in Braille because, in her words, “The letters are hard to see.” As Bloom told me, “This creates a kind of … Read More
  
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• Habitat: Obsessions—A Look at Barbara Bloom’s Collection of Braille Objects

  29-09-2016 17:59 via artnews.com
  Habitat: Obsessions is a ten-part series of visits to the surprising non-art collections of art-world professionals.Artist Barbara Bloom became interested in Braille because, in her words, “The letters are hard to see.” As Bloom told me, “This creates a kind of … Read More
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for the Kabinett Sector at Art Basel Miami Beach

  29-09-2016 16:20 via artnews.com
  Among the many offerings at the 2016 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach will be the Kabinett sector, in which galleries offer curated shows within their booths. There are 30 of these exhibitions, which will run within the fair when it is … Read More
  
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• David Shrigley gives thumbs-up to Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth – video

  29-09-2016 15:49
  
  Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, reveals the newest addition to the sculptures in Trafalgar Square in central London on Thursday. The bronze sculpture, a seven-metre-high thumbs-up gesture titled Really Good, was made by Manchester-based artist David Shrigley. It weighs 45,000kg and is the 11th original work to be placed in the square on the fourth plinthThumbs up to David Shrigley’s fabulously feel-bad fourth plinthContinue reading...
  
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• How ‘Weird’ Became The Term Of Civic Pride In Hipster Cities

  29-09-2016 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “About 15 years ago, an independent bookseller in Texas went to battle against the specter of mega-bookstore invasion. His weapon of choice was something a purveyor of books knew best: a word. And the word was weird.”
  
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• Terrific Action Films On $200 Budgets: Uganda’s One-Man Hollywood

  29-09-2016 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It starts out like any other training montage. Alan is a white doctor in Uganda, and the children of the slum resolve to teach him the ways of the commando. A child soldier, armed with a makeshift assault rifle strung together by yam sticks and slung over his shoulder, chases the hapless doctor into a small stream. Alan falls face first. ‘That, my friend, was poo poo, for real,’ the film’s omniscient narrator exclaims through giggles. ‘This is Uganda. Poo poo every
  
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• Now Out Of Prison, Garth Drabinsky Will Try For A Broadway Comeback

  29-09-2016 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A return to Broadway would be a remarkable moment for Mr. Drabinsky, who was convicted of fraud and forgery in Canada in 2009. As a theater producer he won three Tony Awards, for Kiss of the Spider Woman, Show Boat and Fosse, but he has not had a production on Broadway in 15 years, and is unable to travel to the United States because he is considered a fugitive there.” His vehicle will be a new musical adaptation of Madame Sousatzka.
  
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• Morning Links: Former Saddam Hussein Palace Turned Museum Edition

  29-09-2016 15:04 via artnews.com
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• Donald Trump Stiffed Me On $100,000 Worth Of Pianos, Says New Jersey Music Store Owner

  29-09-2016 14:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  J. Michael Diehl: “My relationship with Trump began in 1989, when he asked me to supply several grand and upright pianos to his then-new Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. I’d been running a music store for more than 30 years at that point, selling instruments to local schools and residents. My business was very much a family affair (my grandsons still run the store). And I had a great relationship with my customers – no one had ever failed to pay.”
  
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• The Hip-Hop Heroines Of Kabul

  29-09-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Taliban may no longer control the airwaves, but young women in Afghanistan still face torture and death for performing music. Meet the women who are pushing back – by rapping, singing, even playing the cello.”
  
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• $300K Gish Prize Goes To Wooster Group’s Elizabeth LeCompte

  29-09-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “LeCompte takes the award for 40 years of Wooster Group work encompassing a string of experimental, boundary-pushing, multimedia shows that include Route 1 & 9, L.S.D. (Just The High Points), Brace Up! and The Emperor Jones. She co-founded the troupe with Spaulding Gray, with Willem Dafoe among its original members; Frances McDormand has performed with the company in recent years.”
  
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• Thumbs up to David Shrigley's fabulously feel-bad fourth plinth

  29-09-2016 14:02
  
  Trafalgar Square, London
  Seven metres of jabbing black bronze, Shrigley’s gleefully ugly sculpture gives a sarcastic thumbs-up to Brexit BritainDavid Shrigley is a mordant and rueful artist. I have a postcard by him that says DEATH in letters that get smaller from left to right, pithily expressing our doom as a diminishing scribble. His take on existence veers between the grimly comic and the cynically absurdist. It is therefore hard to take him entirely at face value when he claims his co
  
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• Without Warning, Off-Broadway’s Soho Rep Closes Its Theater

  29-09-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The company said Wednesday that it had recently concluded that the scale of its current productions was not permitted by restrictions on the property, and that it would immediately vacate the premises. Three productions by other theater companies renting the Soho Rep space, including one that was scheduled to begin performances Thursday, will have to be relocated or canceled.”
  
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• Should Middle-Aged Opera Singers Really Be Playing A Babe Magnet Like Don Giovanni? Of Course, Say Middle-Aged Opera Singers

  29-09-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Christopher Purves: “I think it’s much more interesting for the audience to watch a couple of old duffers trying to negotiate their way round this opera. … [Giovanni] exudes danger, mature sex appeal, total self-confidence, even though he’s no longer young.”
  
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• The Matthew Bourne Dancer Killed In A Collision Last Year? The Driver Was Talking On His Cell Phone

  29-09-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Dancer Jonathan Ollivier was killed when his motorbike was hit by a minicab while the driver was making a hands-free call on his mobile, a court has heard. Ollivier died last August after his motorbike collided with a car as he was making his way to the final performance of Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man.”
  
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• Going digital: fourth plinth gives rainy Brexit London the thumbs up

  29-09-2016 13:30
  
  Mayor braves downpour to hail David Shrigley’s Trafalgar Square installation as a sign that says ‘London is open’There was a torrential rainstorm 10 minutes before the new fourth plinth installation was unveiled in Trafalgar Square on Thursday morning. And then it cleared, and a seven metre-high thumbs up emerged.“What this represents is so important,” said the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, revealing the latest artwork to occupy the renowned spot.Related: V&A exh
  
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• David Shrigley’s big thumb unveiled in Trafalgar Square

  29-09-2016 13:01
  
  Londoners and art world professionals gave the thumbs up for David Shrigleys new public art commission standing on the Fourth Plinth, which was unveiled today in Trafalgar Square in the heart of London (29 September). The seven-metre-high piece, entitled Really Good, is an outlandishly long thumb cast in bronze with the same dark patina as the other classic statues in the square.Shrigley, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2013, hopes that the gesture will become a self-fulfilling prophe
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.28.16

  29-09-2016 11:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  What should Congress do about the arts?
  I am going to urge caution on the vision thing. Because aside from “art is good”, reasonable people can differ on what that vision ought to be. … read more
  AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2016-09-28Miles Davis: Long Time Gone
  This is how co-host Renee Montaigne of National Public Radio’s Morning Edition opened one of the program’s hours this morning. “We’re kind of blue. Miles Davis died 25 years
  
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• Bots Are Figuring Out How To Make Art (And Starting To Get Good At It)

  29-09-2016 10:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re always writing from our experiences of things that we’ve read and what we’ve heard and things that we’ve absorbed verbally. So to what extent can anyone author anything? And to what extent does this machine augment this capacity?”
  
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• Blockchain: how the revolutionary technology behind Bitcoin could change the art market

  29-09-2016 09:00
  
  Issues of provenance, copyright and authentication may soon become a thing of the past, if a potentially revolutionary technology is adopted as quickly by the art world as it has been by the financial sector. And it is not just Silicon Valley hype; art start-ups are already finding real-world applications for blockchain, the technology behind the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. While Bitcoin has recently had its struggles with internal disputes and a reputation for enabling drug deals, blockchain is em
  
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• Managing Editor (Part-Time, Work Remotely)

  29-09-2016 07:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Createquity is a think tank and online publication seeking to make the world a better place by better understanding the arts. We collect and synthesize the best research available on the most important issues of the day and bring it to life for those with the power to make a difference. In doing so, we aim to amplify the role of evidence in the conversations about the future of the arts and promote smart decisions that improve people’s lives. Createquity’s combination of rigorous res
  
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• Parrtjima festival: high-tech outback showcase or Aboriginal Disneyland?

  29-09-2016 04:54
  
  Billed as Australia’s largest light installation, the aim of the $2m festival is to attract tourism to the region – but it’s also attracting controversyIn the Arrernte language, Parrtjima translates as “lighting up”. There is the physical lighting up of an object, but also the lighting up of understanding.Now a new light festival, launched last weekend, hopes to illuminate both an expanse of the Northern Territory and Aboriginal culture. Parrtjima: A Festival in Lig
  
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