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• Works from Beijing’s Palace Museum to travel to Berlin

  03-10-2016 23:50
  
  Beijings Palace Museum will send a selection of Ming and Qing Dynasty portraits to Berlins Museum of Asian Art next September, following an international cooperation agreement signed by the Chinese museums director Shan Jixiang and Michael Eissenhauer, the director-general of the German state museums. The exhibition will also mark the 60th anniversary of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees the 20 National Museums in Berlin, as well as the Berlin State Library, the Prussian
  
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• Hanne Darboven at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles

  03-10-2016 23:46 via artnews.com
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• Why museum leaders are organising shows for private collectors

  03-10-2016 23:00
  
  The director of Tate Modern in London, Frances Morris, has organised an exhibition of post-war art from Europe and Asia due to open this month at the George Economou Collection, a private museum in Athens set up by the eponymous Greek shipping magnate (13 October-9 April 2017). Earlier this year, the same private gallery hosted a survey of Minimalism organised by the Tate curator Mark Godfrey.
  These shows follow a cash gift made to Tate Modern by the Greek tycoon, who is a trustee of the Tate f
  
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• Top five London shows during Frieze week

  03-10-2016 23:00
  
  Picasso Portraits
  6 October-5 February 2017National Portrait Gallery   When Pablo Picasso unveiled Les Demoiselles dAvignon in his Paris studio in 1907, the painting was greeted by bafflement, anger and even laughter from friends and critics. The writer Flix Fnon advised the 25-year-old artist to take up caricature. If the comparison rankled at the time, Picasso later conceded the point, declaring: All good portraits are in some degree caricatures. Caricature is a thread that runs thr
  
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• Three peas in a pod: curators pair Giacometti with Picasso and Nauman

  03-10-2016 23:00
  Two exhibitions opening this month show Alberto Giacometti with other artists: Picasso at the Muse Picasso, Paris, and Bruce Nauman at the Shirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. Esther Schlicht, the Frankfurt show curator, says the public appetite and soaring auction prices for Giacomettis workhis Pointing Man (1947) sold for $141m in 2015encourage a reconsideration of his original strength and the depth of his work. She hopes that new contexts, such as Naumans sculpture, performance and video work, will
  
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• Former MoMA curator leads new riverside art, architecture and technology museum in Lisbon

  03-10-2016 23:00
  
  A new museum dedicated to exploring contemporary culture through visual art, architecture, technology and science is due to open in Lisbon, Portugal, on 5 October. The Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (Maat) is directed by Pedro Gadanho, the former curator of contemporary architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The institution will be spread across two buildings along the river Tagus. The first is the recently renovated Tejo power station, which previously housed the Museum
  
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• An insider’s guide to collecting

  03-10-2016 23:00
  
  Eli and Edythe Broad
  Why we started collecting
  The American billionaire entrepreneur Eli Broad, who once remarked that collecting becomes a compulsion and an addiction, is someone who came to contemporary art after buying older workalthough he did so late in life and was inspired to begin by his wife Edythe.As he puts it: Edye collected before I started. She was buying prints and drawings. She bought a Braque print and then a Lautrec poster. I wanted to buy the Andy Warhol soup can and hang it i
  
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• Gone Fishin’!: Philippe Parreno’s Sound Spectacle Opens at Tate Modern

  03-10-2016 22:41 via artnews.com
  Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall can fit quite a few people, especially when the exhibition on view is spare, installed mostly on the ceiling, and mainly consists of sound. And so it was at the Monday night opening of Philippe Parreno’s … Read More
  
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• Gone Fishin’!: Philipe Parreno’s Sound Spectacle Opens at Tate Modern

  03-10-2016 22:41 via artnews.com
  Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall can fit quite a few people, especially when the exhibition on view is spare, installed mostly on the ceiling, and mainly consists of sound. And so it was at the Monday night opening of Philippe Parreno’s … Read More
  
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• Pace Gallery Now Represents Leo Villareal

  03-10-2016 22:21 via artnews.com
  Pace Gallery announced today that it now represents Leo Villareal, the New York–based artist known for his large-scale LED light sculptures. To mark the news, Pace will be displaying some of Villareal’s recent work in London’s Regent’s Park during Frieze … Read More
  
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• Concrete-encased Cadillac stops traffic in Chicago

  03-10-2016 22:00
  
  A procession that includes a fleet of classic Cadillacs and a concrete truck will be on hand to celebrate the return to the University of Chicago campus of the largest and most ambitious Fluxus object in existence, says Christine Mehring, the chair of the universitys art history department. Concrete Traffic (1970), a public art piece by the German Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell (1932-98) that is comprised of a 1957 Cadillac encased in 14 tonnes of concrete, returned to campus on 30 September after
  
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• ‘Let’s Get That Pistoletto!’ Scenes From Sales Previews at Christie’s in London

  03-10-2016 21:03 via artnews.com
  With many galleries closed on Monday, and other institutions with their doors shut due to Rosh Hashanah, I used my first hours off the plane in London checking out one place that would surely be open for business: Christie’s on King … Read More
  
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• The Nigerian artist who is exploding the myth of the ‘authentic African experience’​

  03-10-2016 20:10
  
  Njideka Akunyili Crosby was 16 before she took her first art class. She talks about why most of the figures in her paintings appear to be doing nothing at all, Mean Girls at Yale, and the debt she owes Harlem’s Studio MuseumNjideka Akunyili Crosby is walking around the Victoria Miro gallery in east London, calmly examining her paintings. The collaged pictures of herself and her family lie on the floor, waiting to be hung; she brought the last two in her own luggage from Los Angeles, having
  
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• Survey: Theatre Top Ticket Prices In London’s West End Up 20 Percent In Four Years

  03-10-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The most expensive seats have increased by £7 since last year alone, when they cost an average £86.78. Since The Stage began records in 2012, the average top-price seat has increased from £72.12.”
  
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• A forest grows in Brooklyn: artist plants miniature redwoods in concrete jungle

  03-10-2016 19:45
  
  Spencer Finch made a scale version of a redwood forest in New York’s urban sprawl in the hope that viewers can imagine themselves in the wildernessWhen the artist Spencer Finch outlined plans for thousands of redwood trees, the tallest living species on the planet, to be placed in the concrete heart of Brooklyn, city authorities initially assumed he meant fake replicas. They were a little taken aback when Finch insisted that they be the real thing.
  “The idea came pretty quickly, and
  
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• Welcome to Frieze Week, With On-the-Scene Coverage From Post-Brexit London

  03-10-2016 19:44 via artnews.com
  If collectors landing in London today for the start of Frieze Week weren’t already spooked by the specter of Brexit, Prime Minister Teresa May was there to remind them of it once again, on the front pages of Britain’s beloved … Read More
  
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• Walken In Queens: Bryan Zanisnik’s Christopher Walken Heads Dot Socrates Sculpture Park

  03-10-2016 19:35 via artnews.com
  This autumn, there is only one real way to truly celebrate the season, and that is by taking a selfie next to a patch of terrifying sculptures depicting the bust of the actor Christopher Walken. DNAInfo reports today that Socrates … Read More
  
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• Walken In Queens: Brian Zanisnik’s Christopher Walken Heads Dot Socrates Sculpture Park

  03-10-2016 19:35 via artnews.com
  This autumn, there is only one real way to truly celebrate the season, and that is by taking a selfie next to a patch of terrifying sculptures depicting the bust of the actor Christopher Walken. DNAInfo reports today that Socrates … Read More
  
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• For Some Reason, We’re Still Obsessed With Mid-Century Design. Why?

  03-10-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Art Nouveau, 1920s Spanish and shabby chic were all looks that the cognoscenti embraced at one time or another, but never for this long. It’s as if the mechanism that refreshes cultural trends every few years has developed a glitch.”
  
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• Carrie Mae Weems Creates Pro–Hillary Clinton Video: ‘The Power of Your Vote’

  03-10-2016 19:30 via artnews.com
   Late last week, New York–based artist Carrie Mae Weems shared a link on Facebook to a new YouTube video, titled The Power of Your Vote, that shows footage shot in the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights, one of the country’s most diverse … Read More
  
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• Carrie Mae Weems Creates Pro-Hillary Clinton Video: ‘The Power of Your Vote’

  03-10-2016 19:30 via artnews.com
   Late last week, New York–based artist Carrie Mae Weems shared a link on Facebook to a new YouTube video, titled The Power of Your Vote, that shows footage shot in the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights, one of the country’s most diverse … Read More
  
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• A Suburban Museum That Struggles: Bellevue Arts Museum

  03-10-2016 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “But after a rocky start as a contemporary art and education center when it moved into its new building by architect Steven Holl—a willful building easily blamed for everything that was wrong with BAM, despite more intractable difficulties with the Eastside institution’s identity and philanthropy—BAM went on to become artistically unique, creative, and surprising.”
  
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• Artist transports Rosa Parks' former Detroit home to Germany

  03-10-2016 18:39
  
  Civil rights activist’s former home was facing demolition as family members were unable to raise funds for its preservationThe Detroit home of civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been dismantled and moved across the Atlantic by a Berlin-based artist after it was facing demolition in its original location.The facade of the two-storey building, home to Parks in the 1950s and 60s, was shipped from America to Germany last month, after having been donated by one of her relatives to Ryan Mendoz
  
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• Thelma Golden, Kehinde Wiley Will Speak at Ta-Nehisi Coates–Organized Festival in New York

  03-10-2016 18:27 via artnews.com
  Today, the programming lineup for the Ta-Nehisi Coates-organized Festival Albertine–a free five-day event hosted by the French Embassy-run bookshop of the same name–was announced. Among the participants for this exquisitely-assembled event, happening between November 2 and 6, are everyone from visual artists … Read More
  
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• National Gallery of Art's East Building review – a new view of America

  03-10-2016 18:19
  
  Closed for three years, the redesigned museum has reopened with a giant blue cockerel on the roof terrace and a spectacular showcase of 60s American art discovered by Virginia DwanIn Washington these days the museum of the moment is the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the new Smithsonian institution housed in David Adjaye’s handsome stack of bronze polyhedrons. But a few minutes down the Mall, with less fanfare, another museum has also thrown open its doors. The Na
  
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• The Met’s Social Media Manager, Kimberly Drew, Is on the White House’s Instagram Account Today

  03-10-2016 18:05 via artnews.com
  It’s a big day in Washington, D.C. today! The White House is hosting an event called South by South Lawn (subtitle: A White House Festival of Ideas, Art and Action), a one-day version on the very popular South by Southwest … Read More
  
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• ‘It’s Not Nice to Talk About Entitlement’: Martha Rosler and Andrea Bowers Discuss Politics, Ethics at Dia

  03-10-2016 17:55 via artnews.com
  In 1989, a portrait of a sickly Donald Trump was on view at the Dia Art Foundation in New York. Shown as part of Martha Rosler’s three-space project If You Lived Here…, the portrait, which was painted by Andrew Castrucci, showed … Read More
  
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• Norman Lebrecht: Remembering Neville Marriner

  03-10-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He loved orchestras, couldn’t get enough of their gossip and intrigues while always respecting the players’ craft and commitment and never indulging in malice. Those who fell out with him – Christopher Hogwood, for instance – found themselves embraced in reconciliation. So many musicians, down in the dumps, were picked up and set on their feet again by the ever-patient Neville.”
  
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• Alma-Tadema show includes most expensive classical Victorian piece

  03-10-2016 17:40
  
  The $36m painting is among the artworks by the British-based Dutch artist that will go on display in the Netherlands this week The most expensive classical Victorian painting ever sold – The Finding of Moses, which inspired Cecil B DeMille’s biblical epic The Ten Commandments, the most expensive film ever at the time of its release in 1956 – is going on public display this week for the first time since the record-breaking auction in New York six years ago.The appropriately epic
  
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• Remembering Neville Marriner

  03-10-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mr. Marriner and his group were part of a huge revival of scholarly and popular interest in music of the 18th and early 19th centuries that began in the 1960s and has continued to this day. Washington Post arts critic Philip Kennicott once described the original appeal of the St. Martin’s performances and its interpretation of classics. “The Academy played them like chamber music,” he wrote in 2001, “with reduced forces and an emphasis on clarity; it also played them
  
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• Peter Saul: the chocolate-smeared prankster of Pop painting

  03-10-2016 16:57
  
  Taking potshots at the American art canon, Peter Saul’s paintings are riots of fast food, sex and acid-fried energyYou certainly can’t mistake Peter Saul for any other artist. Splurges of lime green or spaghetti sauce red, gross caricatures of politicians, flamboyant sexual fantasies … His art is the American dream pumped up and injected with steroids, served with a hot dog and a tube of mustard coloured acrylic.Food analogies leap to mind when describing his work, because he
  
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• Chicago Radio Exec Retires, Assesses State Of Classical Music Radio

  03-10-2016 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are stations that feel that digital will save them should the audience dwindle. They have to be very careful because the competition is so great. A single station is going to have a hard time making up lost over-the-air revenue online. Over-the-air radio isn’t going away for now, and this is not a head in the sand view—over-the-air is still the mainstay.”
  
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• Kai Althoff at the Museum of Modern Art, New York — ‘Chaotic’

  03-10-2016 16:35
  The artist’s retrospective resembles a sloppy teenager’s bedroom
  
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• Canadians Working On An Olympic Games For The Arts

  03-10-2016 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Olympic medals for the world’s best art seems an odd thing to revive, but a brave and no doubt well-intentioned Canadian organization is bringing back the idea of an international art competition nominally tied to or modelled on the Olympics. They hope to hold the International ArtsGames in Montreal in 2018.”
  
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• Hauser & Wirth Now Represents the Estate of Arshile Gorky

  03-10-2016 16:24 via artnews.com
  Hauser & Wirth announced today that it now represents the estate of Arshile Gorky, the Armenian-born American modernist painter whose work was the subject of a traveling retrospective in 2009. Gorky’s estate had previously been represented by Gagosian Gallery.The news … Read More
  
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• Philippe Parreno’s Turbine Hall review – mesmerising and unmissable

  03-10-2016 16:11
  
  Tate Modern Turbine Hall Anywhen is one of the very best Turbine Hall commissions, filling the space with sounds and furies, stillness and movementThe length and height of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall is alive with ripples and rivers of pulsing light. High above, the box-like viewing balconies on the side walls throb and wink as light travels from one end of the building to the other, reflected and multiplying on glass walls and casting abberant forms on the concrete. Here comes a plane, dro
  
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• Looks Like Publishing Powerhouse Gannett Is About To Buy The LA Times And Chicago Tribune

  03-10-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Confidential sources have told POLITICO that asset purchase agreement drafts have been exchanged by Gannett, the country’s second-largest newspaper chain and publisher of USA Today, and Tronc, formerly known as Tribune Publishing and the publisher of such broadsheet mainstays as The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun. The announcement of a deal could come as soon as business opens on the fourth quarter of the year, as early as Monday morning.”
  
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• A Cartoonist Who Used Kickstarter To Document The Lives Of Refugees In The Middle East

  03-10-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even as her friends hunted down compelling stories – here was a group of refugees living in one of Saddam’s former prisons; there was a supposedly innocent man who’d been deported from America after his name appeared in the 9/11 commission report – they always had to keep one eye pragmatically, even ruthlessly, on what might go down well at home.”
  
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• China Covers Up A Museum For The Victims Of The Cultural Revolution

  03-10-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Workers arrived bearing concrete, propaganda banners and metal scaffolding. They smoothed concrete over the names of victims, wrapped ‘Socialist Core Values’ banners around the main exhibition hall, placed red-and-yellow propaganda posters over stone memorials to the terror, and raised scaffolding around statues of critics of Mao.”
  
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• ‘Things Get Exciting When You Smoosh Opposites Together’: A Talk With Brian Belott

  03-10-2016 15:15 via artnews.com
  Brian Belott has had solo exhibitions in New York at the Journal Gallery and 247365, and at Moran Bondaroff in Los Angeles. He recently joined the roster at the New York-based Gavin Brown’s Enterprise.Bill Powers: Look at how decadent you … Read More
  
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• The Genius Of Lorraine Hansberry Tragically Had To Be Transmitted In Only Three Plays

  03-10-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “She saw what we were about to enter into. She had an extraordinary understanding of the cycles of social movements. What does it mean to be fully engaged in the world? Are you going to stand on the sidelines and critique it? Are you going to abstract it and be of no use in your abstractions, or are you going to be engaged and be part of the solution?”
  
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• Online Reaction To The Italian Journalist Who ‘Investigated’ The (Possibly) Real Name Of Elena Ferrante Is Fierce

  03-10-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Readers called the alleged scoop an intrusion into the life of one of the world’s most influential female writers. Some were afraid it would stop Ferrante from ever writing again, saying the story had been driven by the ego of the reporter and the New York Review of Books.” (The alleged author is identified in this article as well.)
  
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• Writing A 150,000-Word Pulp Novel In A Month, To Win A Bet

  03-10-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I bet you five pounds that you can’t write a 150,000-word novel in one month. If you do it, you get the five quid and I publish the book. If you don’t, I get a fiver off you, and I have to go back to publishing local poets. I hate local poets. In fact, I hate all poets. And all poetry. I have a long-standing and deeply entrenched hostility to the form.”
  
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• Morning Links: Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Sol LeWitt Edition

  03-10-2016 14:49 via artnews.com
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• Can Toronto Figure Out A Way To Fix Its Botched Public Space?

  03-10-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Our collective cultural efforts of the 1960s were vastly more adventurous than they are today. Ontario Place is often described as ‘utopian,’ which is right in two senses. One, in its futurist ambition: the architecture embodies modernism’s faith in social progress, technological advances and radical innovation for its own sake. And two, in its production: It was built incredibly fast, driven by a relatively young architect – and it wasn’t entirely clear what
  
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• Director Amma Asante Says The Entire Movie Industry Has To Change

  03-10-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Your expectations are disrupted. And I believe that’s what I’m here for. I hold that flag.”
  
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• The New Face, And Brains, Of The Washington Ballet

  03-10-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As she introduced each segment of the nearly three-hour salute to the company’s history, Kent led the audience members elegantly — and cannily — to an undeniable conclusion: She stood before them as the visionary queen of the Washington Ballet’s future.”
  
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• The New York Fringe Festival Is Taking Next Year (And Only Next Year?) Off

  03-10-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The producing artistic director said that the 20-year-old festival “needed to figure out how to best serve its artists, audiences and alumni — in part by taking the time to analyze its trove of data on them.”
  
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• Once Bankrupt, The Louisville Orchestra Working On A Comeback

  03-10-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “From 2013 to 2016, ticket income rose 82.5 percent after a 60 percent increase in season subscriptions and a 128 percent increase in single ticket sales. Individual donations have jumped 34.5 percent.”
  
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