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• What kind of director will succeed Serota?

  09-10-2016 23:00
  
  Nicholas Serotas announcement in September that he would be stepping down as the director of the Tate, after nearly three illustrious decades, to become the chairman of Arts Council England triggered a flurry of speculation about whom the Tates trustees might choose as a successor. Aspiring directors have until 17 October to apply for the post that will become vacant in February 2017. Immediate tasks will include completing the fundraising for Tate Modern20m is still required, down from the 30m
  
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• What kind of director will succeed Nicholas Serota?

  09-10-2016 23:00
  
  Nicholas Serotas announcement in September that he would be stepping down as the director of the Tate, after nearly three illustrious decades, to become the chairman of Arts Council England triggered a flurry of speculation about whom the Tates trustees might choose as a successor. Aspiring directors have until 17 October to apply for the post that will become vacant in February 2017. Immediate tasks will include completing the fundraising for Tate Modern20m is now required, down 10m from the 3
  
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• Serious doubts grow over Old Masters sold by Giulano Ruffini

  09-10-2016 23:00
  
  In the latest development in a growing scandal over several Old Master paintings, the authenticity of which are in serious doubt, Sotheby's New York provided new details on the rescinding of a 2011 sale to a US collector of a portrait sold in good faith as a Frans Hals. The auction house confirmed it reimbursed the buyer in full after discovering the painting was a forgery, which was first reported by our sister paper, the Journal des Arts, on 30 September.The painting was sold in 201
  
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• Fears grow that hard Brexit will damage UK trade

  09-10-2016 23:00
  
  The UK art market is, for now, weathering the storm after the shock vote to leave the EU in June, say dealers and other art professionals, who stress that London is proving surprisingly resilient. But other leading figures are concerned about the long-term impact and whether the government will prioritise trade concerns following the narrow vote in favour of breaking away from the EU.
  In terms of a multicultural, cosmopolitan metropolis, London has no rivals, and it is hard for anyone to see a
  
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• David sallies forth at the New Museum

  09-10-2016 23:00
  
  The Whitney Museum of American Art hosted a book launch on 10 October for David Salles How to See, a trenchant and light-on-its-feet collection of critical essays and less-targeted musings about art, artists, fame, and, if you read it closely enough, what its like to have been David Salle for all these years, in New York magazines estimation. The evening began with Salle holding court onstage, with artists like Alex Katz and Clifford Ross in the audience, fielding prompts from associate curator
  
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• Beleaguered Yves Bouvier defends himself and freeport system

  09-10-2016 23:00
  
  The Swiss businessman Yves Bouvier, who made his fortune shipping, selling and storing art, is battling on several fronts to preserve his reputation and business. He is fighting criminal charges in Monaco and Paris, and a civil lawsuit in Singaporewhile defending the freeports system.Interviewed by The Art Newspaper in Paris and Geneva, Bouvier says: I have every confidence I shall be cleared on all charges. But in the meantime, I must also deal with a campaign aimed at destroying my name. He s
  
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• This Weekend’s AJBlogs Highlights 10.09.16

  09-10-2016 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week In Understanding Audience: What Does The Audience “Own”? and Do We Tell Audiences Too Much?This Week: Do you own the culture you just bought?… How did TV become the medium for complexity?… Should we keep audiences in the dark about what they’ll see?… Measuring the effectiveness of arts policy … read more
  AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-10-09
  On diversifying audiences This week The New Yorker had some shocking news: An
  
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• This Week In Understanding Audience: What Does The Audience “Own”? and Do We Tell Audiences Too Much?

  09-10-2016 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Do you own the culture you just bought?… How did TV become the medium for complexity?… Should we keep audiences in the dark about what they’ll see?… Measuring the effectiveness of arts policy is really hard… Technology is changing the ways we experience the world.
  
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• Klaus Kertess, Foresighted Art Dealer and Curator, Dies at 76

  09-10-2016 21:28 via artnews.com
  Showed Brice Marden, Dorothea Rockburne, Chuck Close, Bill Bollinger, Alan Saret, curated 1995 Whitney Biennial Read More
  
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• Five AJ Highlights From This Week: A Golden Age For Music? An Arts Olympics?

  09-10-2016 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: The movie industry is undergoing a top-to-bottom revolution… Claim: teaching humanities fights racism… Outing the identity of Elena Ferrante sparks debate on privacy… Now be the best-ever time for music… Do we really need an Olympics for the arts?
  
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• Police Recover Van Goghs In Mafia Raid

  09-10-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Italian police recovered the paintings during a raid of a Naples country house belonging to Raffaele Imperiale, a 41-year-old businessman linked to the Amato-Pagano clan, one of Italy’s notorious mafia groups. According to Reuters, police were first tipped off to the location of the paintings after arresting 11 of the group’s suspected members. Imperiale, however, remains at large and is believed to be hiding in the United Arab Emirates.”
  
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• Inside An Author’s Brain

  09-10-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why am I so distracted? Why do I always want to be alone and write? Why, when my daughter says ‘Will you play a game with me?’ and I say ‘Yes, later,’ do I never play a game with her? Why aren’t I a better version of myself?”
  
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• Escaping Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’ Through Opera

  09-10-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Annilese Miskimmon: “Opera and theatre were, and still are, a safe place for open-minded, creative people from both communities, a defence against all the sectarian problems. Art united while religion and politics divided.”
  
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• Was Hitler A Sock Puppet For Himself?

  09-10-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the early fall of 1923, when Adolf Hitler was still mostly known for his frenzied speeches at Munich beer halls, a slim biography was published that lauded him as the savior of the German nation and even compared him to Jesus. … New research says Hitler penned the work himself.”
  
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• The Gifts Of John Cage

  09-10-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “He opened doors—floodgates, really—and dissolved definitions; if most of his own compositions now seem less interesting than the ramifications of his ideas, there can be little doubt that his oceanic spirit changed the topography.”
  
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• The True Freshness – And Possible Revolution – Of Issa Rae’s New HBO Series

  09-10-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s taking a genre that’s long been pitched at one small sector of the viewing audience, and drawing the circle a little wider.”
  
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• The Guy Who Started A Shakespearean Theatre Company When He Was 8 Years Old

  09-10-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We sprint to the dressing room, throw off our Vans and put on Elizabethan boots, toss tunics straight over our Nirvana T-shirts, and run around the woods to make our entrance on Shakespeare & Company’s verdant outdoor stage in Lenox, Mass.”
  
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• Striking Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians Play Free Concerts

  09-10-2016 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The musicians’ orchestral program on Oct. 9 features Antonin Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony, which the musicians were scheduled to play Oct. 14 to 16 under Manfred Honeck at concerts cancelled by management.”
  
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• Dancing For City Ballet As A New Parent

  09-10-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I was talking to a former dancer, Pauline Golbin, who’s had two babies, and she said, ‘Doesn’t your dancing just feel more efficient?’ I said, ‘That’s a great word for it.’ I don’t use way too much energy anymore, and I can just dance. I’m calmer.”
  
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• The Art Fund is spreading the love

  09-10-2016 14:07
  
  The London-based Art Fund charity launched a curators programme earlier this week at Frieze Masters in London, bringing together key museum professionals from the US and the UK including Nicholas Cullinan, the director of the National Portrait Galleryfor a day-long conference. The Art Fund is also all loved up, having teamed up with the relationship website eHarmony.co.uk. The arts organisation is an official partner for eHarmonys Love Captured photography competition which chall
  
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• Adam Phillips: ‘Taste is problematic when it is a militant and aggressive narrowing of the mind’

  09-10-2016 10:00
  
  The psychoanalyst and writer on an exhibition he’s created about ‘the vulgar’, and when taste becomes narrow-mindednessThe psychoanalyst Adam Phillips is the author of essays and books that include On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; and Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life. With his partner, the curator and academic Judith Clark, he has created an exhibition at the Barbican, London called The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined, which questions the idea of bad taste, and opens
  
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• Picasso Portraits; Philippe Parreno review – quickfire genius and inflatable fish

  09-10-2016 09:00
  
  National Portrait Gallery; Tate Modern, London
  This enthralling show of Picasso portraits reveals the playful, self-mocking man behind the superhuman artist. And a sea of dreams engulfs the Turbine HallPicasso fell in and out of love with the Russian ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova in one fierce decade. His portraits trace the collapse. When they meet in 1917, she is an exquisite dark-eyed beauty, en pointe and lithe as an Ingres drawing. Four years later, she has become a monument of neoclassical
  
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