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• How The Insecurity Of Adjuncts Figures In To The University “Safe Spaces” Debates

  06-10-2016 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Insecurity, endemic to a profession heavily reliant on short-term labor, is usually omitted from discussions regarding safe spaces. But the instructor’s role in the construction of safe spaces is unquestioned: They hold the balance of power in the classroom, even if they know themselves to be nearly powerless in other areas of life. As a result, they need to concede a great deal of that power if a space is indeed to remain safe for their students.”
  
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• What is next for Hirst, an Oscar?

  06-10-2016 23:10
  
  Twenty-one years after winning the Turner Prize, the artist-turned-museum-founder Damien Hirst has scooped Britains top architecture award for his Newport Street Gallery. (What's the arts equivalent of an EGOT?) The south London former painting workshops elegantly converted and expanded by Caruso St John architects (Gagosians go-to Brits) carried off the prestigious Riba Sterling Prize last night. The only blot on the horizon is a proposed luxury skyscraper at the end of the street, which local
  
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• Christie’s $43.5 M. Postwar and Contemporary Sale in London Flies Past High Estimate, Notches $9 M. Record for Adrian Ghenie

  06-10-2016 23:07 via artnews.com
  Also sets new top marks for Knoebel, Rauch, Taylor, more Read More
  
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• Workin’ nine to five, what a way to make a living

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  Various artists, Latelier dartistes
  Hauser & WirthThe artists studio is a mythical place, long fetishised as a site of divine inspiration and long hours of labour. But what if this toil was shared by many hands, coming together to create the ultimate super-artist? This is, in a roundabout way, what is happening at Hauser & Wirths standa major talking point at the fair. Packed with works by around 50 artists from the gallerys stable, Latelier dartistes is the fictional studio of a fabric
  
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• Spiders sell well at Frieze London

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  The thought of spiders makes most peoples skin crawl, but not at Frieze London, where three spider-web works by Toms Saraceno sold at Esther Schippers stand for between 34,000 and 45,000. The Berlin-based artist has one of the worlds biggest collections of spider webs and is well-known in the circle of arachnologists, according to a spokesman for the gallery.
  
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• Random International helps travellers catch last train from Chemnitz

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  They delighted visitors in London, New York, Shanghai and Los Angeles with Rain Room, an immersive installation that allows visitors to walk through a downpour without getting wet.
  Now the art collective Random International has created its first permanent public work. From October, the two faades of a new hall of the Chemnitz railway station in Germany will be illuminated with a monumental light work inspired by the way birds and insects form groups. Swarm Study / IX will light up every night
  
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• PREVIEW Martin Luther’s Reformation relics travel to the US

  06-10-2016 23:00
  New York/Minneapolis/Atlanta. German institutions are sending dozens of rare manuscripts, artefacts and works of art to the US ahead of next years 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation. Most of the objectsincluding the pulpit from the Wittenberg church where Martin Luther preached and one of the five surviving original printed copies of his 95 Theseshave never before left Germany.
  Exhibitions due to open in October at three institutionsthe Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mi
  
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• Painting could be a cut-throat business in 17th-century Rome

  06-10-2016 23:00
  This month, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens a show dedicated to the French painter Valentin de Boulogne, one of the most gifted artists to fall under the influence of Caravaggio. The show brings together 45 of his existing paintings, of around 60 in total. The below excerpt, which comes from the art historian Patrizia Cavazzinis catalogue essay, looks at the violent world in which Valentin lived and worked. The book, titled Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio after the exhibition, is av
  
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• No superstars but some fresher faces at Sotheby’s Italian sales

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  Last years Frieze week Italian sales at both Christies and Sothebys were tough acts to follow. In 2015, Sothebys had a record-breaking Fontana painting, Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio, which sold for 15.9m (with buyers premium), making up a large chunk of the 40.4m (with premium) sale total.This year, Sothebys 7 October evening sale was a little more civilian, without such a superstar. It made 19.4m (23.3 with premium), just short of a revised estimate of 19.7m-27.9m. The top lot was Alberto
  
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• Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Discoballs and déjà vu

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  Anyone who has visited degree shows and biennials, browsed trendy design magazines or followed contemporary fashion over the past decade will be familiar with the work of Marc Camille Chaimowicz. Green and lavender pastels, objects that hover between furniture and works of art and cartoon-like squiggle motifs repeated on wallpaper are just some of the aspects that will be recognisableeven if you have not been to a Chaimowicz show before.
   
  Although the London-based, French artist is well k
  
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• It’s not easy being green

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  Natural waterscapes are a frequent subject of traditional Chinese ink art, but for Gu Wenda they serve as material as well. Last month, Gu gathered around 1,500 schoolchildren to the Shenzhen Conference and Exhibition Center, where they painted 1,500 meters of rice paper using green algae as part of the performance project A Story of Qinglu Shanshui. I believe this is a historical break for Chinese painting, using the ecological pigment, says the New York and Shanghai-based artist. The resultin
  
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• Interview: Yuri Pattison has his eye on you

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  At Frieze this year, you will become part of a work of art, whether you like it or not. Similar to the mass surveillance tactics used by governmental agencies, Yuri Pattisons Frieze Projects commission will keep a watchful eye, and ear, on visitors. Its in the terms and conditions, he saysonce you enter the fair you give permission to be filmed and recorded. The data, gathered through a number of means, will then be relayed on a series of monitors, which themselves gather further information.Th
  
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• In pictures: Frieze Focus

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  Jesse Darling; Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings
  Arcadia Missa
  An inspired combination of works, both obliquely referring to community. Darling continues recent works drawing on Modernist aesthetics, in which found objects are given anthropomorphic qualities. Red childrens chairs are placed on high, powder-coated steel legs; entitled March of the Valedictorians (2016), this piece has an aggressive, gang-like feel, but there is a fragility, too, in the uneven, even rickety legs. Quinlan and Ha
  
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• Getting high at Frieze Masters

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  A vintage board game is putting visitors to Frieze Masters on cloud nine. Scam: the Game of International Dope Smuggling, available with Daniel Crouch Rare Books, dates from 1971, the year US president Richard Nixon declared drug abuse to be public enemy number one. To win the game, devised by Brown Bag Enterprises, players must make a cool $1m by buying and smuggling dope. Players move around a psychedelic board that features maps of Afghanistan and Mexico, picking up Connection or Paranoia car
  
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• Getting digi with it: why new media art still hasn't fully gone mainstream

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  Artists working in new media have never been so widely admireda generation of artists in their 20s and 30s, including Amalia Ulman, Neil Beloufa, Ian Cheng, Jon Rafman and Ccile B. Evans, are now shown internationally. Exhibitions have also moved beyond specialist kunsthallen such as ZKM in Karlsruhe, V2 in Rotterdam and YCam in Yamaguchi, Japan. Digital art was the subject of a major show, Electronic Superhighway, at the Whitechapel Gallery in London this spring, and the focus of this summers
  
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• Fiac gets its very own sculpture park

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  The Fiac Modern and contemporary art fair in Paris, which launches its 43rd edition at the Grand Palais this month (20-23 October), will present a series of public art pieces in a new pedestrian zone outside the venue. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has granted permission for the Avenue Winston Churchill to close between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais opposite. The ten works include new text pieces by the US artist Lawrence Weiner and the French artist Jacques Villegl, who will spell
  
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• Centre Pompidou pops up in China

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  The Centre Pompidou in Paris makes its long-awaited Chinese debut this month with an exhibition at the Shanghai Exhibition Center (Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou 1906-1977, 7 October-January 15 2017). The show traces the development of French art from Fauvism in the early 20th century to the opening of the Centre Pompidou in 1977. It includes work by Picasso, Duchamp and other blockbuster names. The Paris museum, which is known for organising pop-ups around the world, first sought to ope
  
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• Artists give back to Camden Arts Centre with auction

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  Camden Arts Centre, which has just celebrated its 50th anniversary, and its longstanding director, Jenni Lomax, have a special place in many artists hearts. Works donated by Glenn Ligon, Martin Creed, Wolfgang Tillmans and Kerry James Marshall, among others, are going under the hammer at Christies in an auction to support the centres Artists for Artists fund.Six pieces go up for sale in a live auction today and eight others are in an online auction that began on 4 October and concludes on 13 Oc
  
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• American art goes beyond the US border

  06-10-2016 23:00
  
  For great American art, come to London this week. As well as the Abstract Expressionism show at the Royal Academy of Arts (until 2 January 2017) and Georgia OKeeffe at Tate Modern (until 30 October), there are installations by Mike Kelley at Hauser & Wirth and Bruce Nauman at Blain Southern, while Ed Ruschas new paintings are at Gagosian Gallerys Grosvenor Hill space. Head to Frieze Masters for a monographic display of works by Ruscha at Gagosian and a Frank Stella survey at the shared stan
  
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• The man at the centre of the Old Master fakes scandal

  06-10-2016 22:25
  
  Hardly anyone in the art world had ever heard of Giulano Ruffini, until we reported in June that the 71-year-old French man says he once owned Old Master paintings that were subsequently sold for millions by dealers and auction houses in London, Paris, New York or Milanand our now suspected of being fakes. One of them is the portrait sold privately for $10m as a newly discovered work by Frans Hals to a collector in Seattle, who Sothebys has refunded after a high-quality, technical analysis demo
  
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• The Cost Of Becoming A “Prestigious” University

  06-10-2016 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It seems to me that prestige only accrues to those at the very top—not top 20, more like top five—and when we’re talking prestige, we’re almost exclusively talking about private institutions. Unfortunately, the only way to survive in a culture that continues to turn away from education as a public good is to “compete,” and the only way we know how to compete is for “prestige.” But what is the cost on public institutions of chasing prestige?&
  
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• Portland Art Museum Announces Expansion and 20-Year Art Lending Partnership for Major Rothko Works

  06-10-2016 22:00 via artnews.com
  The Portland Art Museum announced today that it will expand, connecting the museum’s two freestanding buildings, and that it will begin a 20-year art lending partnership with Mark Rothko’s children, Christopher and Kate. The partnership will allow the museum to … Read More
  
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• John Wesley at Waddington Custot, London

  06-10-2016 21:12 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• ‘Drawing Is the Best Video Game’: At a New School Lecture Tonight, Jeffrey Scudder Will Be Making Timed Drawings in Front of a Live Audience

  06-10-2016 21:06 via artnews.com
  As part of his lecture tonight at the New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Los Angeles–based artist Jeffrey Scudder will be creating three whiteboard drawings on the spot, each timed to be completed within a 20-minute period. … Read More
  
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• MoMA PS1 Will Re-Open James Turrell’s Skyspace Installation ‘Meeting’ on Saturday

  06-10-2016 20:05 via artnews.com
  Today, MoMA PS1 announced that James Turrell’s site-specific installation Meeting (1986) will re-open to the public following a three-year restoration and renovation. Meeting, a luminously framed skylight, is one of two Skyspaces ever created by Turrell, and the only one … Read More
  
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• From Ear to Eternity: ‘On the Verge of Insanity’ at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

  06-10-2016 19:51 via artnews.com
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• Bird Droppings, Opera, and Reading Gaol: Museum and Gallery Shows in London During Frieze

  06-10-2016 18:54 via artnews.com
  On Wilfredo Lam at Tate Modern, James Richards at Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Paula Rego at Marlborough Fine Art, and much more Read More
  
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• Full Disclosure! Will Cotton’s Nudes Party Draws a Crowd

  06-10-2016 18:28 via artnews.com
  In 2002 the artist Will Cotton hosted a handful of friends at his lower East Side loft for a live drawing session. Cotton had grown a bit rusty at depicting people in his work and figured it was as good … Read More
  
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• Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Victoria Miro Gallery, London — review

  06-10-2016 18:16
  The artist’s first UK show reveals her to be a master storyteller
  
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• As U.S. Election Nears, Zoe Leonard’s ‘I Want a President’ Will Be Installed on New York’s High Line

  06-10-2016 18:07 via artnews.com
  When Zoe Leonard wrote her manifesto-like essay I want a president, the Democrats were running Bill Clinton. Now, with another Clinton campaigning to be president, Leonard will install that text as a 20-by-30-foot wheat-paste installation on New York’s High Line. Leonard’s piece, … Read More
  
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• Neo Rauch at David Zwirner gallery, London — interview

  06-10-2016 17:54
  The most dazzling of the Leipzig school of figurative artists talks about his mysterious paintings
  
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• Sunday, the Young Fair in London During Frieze, Opens with Solid Sales, Chill Vibes

  06-10-2016 16:56 via artnews.com
  The Sunday Art Fair had its VIP opening this afternoon, and the atmosphere was about as laid back as the day it’s named after. Held in a three-story-high cement bunker near the Baker Street Underground station, Sunday, now in its seventh … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: Recovered Dutch Golden Age Art Edition

  06-10-2016 14:49 via artnews.com
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• Stik in Shoreditch: the artist’s hidden tribute to a sold-off London – video

  06-10-2016 14:09
  
  Last year, the street artist Stik got permission for a major new mural in his neighbourhood, an area of the East End of London that now embodies gentrification at its most extreme. So he asked the denizens of Old Shoreditch – the vicars, artists and paupers – what he should paint in response ... before the wall is hidden again by a billboardWARNING: Strong languageContinue reading...
  
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• Solid results at Phillips contemporary sale despite instability in the contemporary market

  06-10-2016 12:38
  
  Against a backdrop of Brexit and the pound slumping to a 31-year low, Phillips mustered a decent contemporary art sale last night (5 October). The auction total came to 15m or 17.9m with fees (est 14.2m-20.5m), with 94% sold by value.
  Nevertheless, the result represents an almost 50% drop in value from last years sale. The froth that was in the market that was driving optimistic estimates has gone, Ed Dolman, the chief executive of Phillips, said after the auction.
  The sale was bolstered by US
  
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• Serge Attukwei Clottey: the artist urging African men to dress as women

  06-10-2016 12:05
  
  Serge Attukwei Clottey walked through Ghana’s capital city in his dead mother’s clothes to honour her memory – and to highlight injustice against women. It is the latest step in his art collective’s mission to create social changeA muscle-heavy man sits, staring unsmiling at the camera, on a throne of yellow plastic water cans. His biceps push out from under the puffed shoulders of a wax-print blouse; two hairy ankles emerge from below a blue patterned skirt; his head is
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.05.16

  06-10-2016 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Which is the Inimitable Don? Jones’s Giovanni
  Søren Kierkegaard said in Either/Or: Because Don Giovanni desires in each and every woman the whole of womanhood, his behaviour has to be judged aesthetically, not ethically. Richard Jones has, I think, taken this seriously. … read more
  AJBlog: Plain English Published 2016-10-05Snapshot: Joni Mitchell sings “California” on The Johnny Cash Show
  Joni Mitchell sings “California” on The Johnny Cash Show. T
  
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• Christian Marclay's best photograph – the San Francisco firecrackers with the perfect name

  06-10-2016 09:00
  
  ‘I’ve got Psssst! hairspray and Vroom car keys. So when I saw these firecrackers in San Francisco I had to photograph them’ When I’m travelling in a place I don’t know, I always have a point-and-shoot digital camera in my pocket – and go looking for “found onomatopoeias” like these children’s firecrackers. I shot them in San Francisco when I was over for an exhibition, walking around Chinatown.Onomatopoeias have always interested me, these al
  
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• End Of An Era: How Neville Marriner And Gordon Davidson Reshaped LA Culture

  06-10-2016 00:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The two men didn’t exactly collaborate. Yet both were instrumental in creating an ethos in the early era of the Music Center that’s worth revisiting as the institution, having recently entered into its second half-century, tries to become newly relevant.”
  
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