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• Tino Sehgal plans to tear down museum walls

  10-10-2016 23:00
  In his most ambitious show to date, Tino Sehgal is due to take over the whole of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris starting this month. The British-born, Berlin-based artist will for the first time present a number of his performances alongside works by six contemporary artists in what is a major development within his work, says the shows curator Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel.
  As with most Sehgal shows, there is no title and most of the detailsincluding the names of the other artistswill remain under wraps
  
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• Open School East decamps from London to seaside resort Margate

  10-10-2016 23:00
  
  Open School East (OSE), an art school based in east London which provides free tuition and workspaces for artists, is relocating to the coastal town of Margate in Kent next year. This is an exciting move for OSE in building its future and working more closely with our mentors and tutors, many of whom are based in the region, a project statement says.The school has been based in the Rose Lipman Building in Hackney since 2013. It accepts applications from emerging practitioners wit
  
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• Light or shadow for photography at the V&A?

  10-10-2016 23:00
  
  Francis Hodgson
  Professor in the culture of photography, University of Brighton
  In the first week of September, Martin Roth, the distinguished director of Londons Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), announced that he would be leaving. During his tenure, the V&A continuedas it had under his predecessor, Mark Jonesgradually to firm up its position as a world-class centre of photography, in a period when many other British institutions involved with the subject were either letting themselves
  
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• Laughing all the way to the White House

  10-10-2016 23:00
  
  When describing this years US presidential election, fun and whimsical are not the first words that spring to mind, but they apply to many of the objects in a timely exhibition at the New-York Historical Society (Campaigning for the Presidency, 1960-72: Selections from the Museum of Democracy, until 27 November). The show includes campaign memorabilia, advertisements, posters, photographs and other archival material from four races to the White House. It opens on a jolly note, with a catchy jin
  
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• Interest grows in the followers of Caravaggio

  10-10-2016 23:00
  This month, exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery in London look at the followers of Caravaggio. The Met show looks specifically at the French painter Valentin de Boulogne (until 16 January 2017), while the London exhibition, Beyond Caravaggio (12 October-15 January 2017), looks at artists like Orazio Gentileschi and Jusepe de Ribera through 49 works borrowed mostly from UK and Irish institutions, private collections and churches. The shows open on th
  
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• Sackler Director

  10-10-2016 18:21
  Dulwich Picture Gallery, England's first purpose-built picture gallery, founded to make great art available to all, is based in SE London in Sir John Soane's unique building. Distinctive in its offer, hosting some of the most intriguing and revelatory exhibitions alongside its Permanent Collection of Baroque Masterpieces, the success of the Gallery and its innovative, quality exhibition and engagement programmes is reflected in the record-breaking number of visitors from London, across the
  
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• Scottish Survey: All Time High In Engagement With Culture

  10-10-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Overall, the report says 95 percent consume culture. “The figures cover both attendance at cultural events, the most popular of which is watching a film in the cinema, and cultural participation, the most popular of which is reading for pleasure. When trips to the cinema are excluded, the proportion of the population who attended a cultural event in 2015 stands at 75%. This figure has risen from 70% in 2012. When reading for pleasure is excluded, 52% participated in a cultural ac
  
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• What The Goodman Theatre Is Finding Out With Its Audience Engagement Experiments

  10-10-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Engagement isn’t just a simple matter of making more information available. It’s a mindset. “What if a person pays $50 for a show they end up hating? Or what if a person is organizing a night out with friends, or a date, or a family gathering—and everyone has a poor experience? Our goal is to show them that a new play is exciting because it’s untested, not in spite of its lack of production history. Who wouldn’t want to be part of something new? Letting the au
  
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• Chinese Investors Are Buying Into Hollywood. Is There A Looming Threat Of Censorship?

  10-10-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chinese money has been buying up Hollywood movie companies with the intent of pursuing global business. So is this a problem? “When you control the movie experience, you can subtly influence public opinion. And the Chinese government has been transparent about that goal.”
  
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• Quote me on this, Grayson: you're not a true artist at all

  10-10-2016 16:15
  
  Grayson Perry has quoted my dismissal of him as ‘suburban popular culture’ on a new pot of his. But I’m no snob – and this is typical snark from an artist who makes dry jokes instead of feeling anythingIt’s always nice to be quoted. In a design for a new pot that he has released to publicise his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery next year, Grayson Perry quotes me dismissing his work as “suburban popular culture”.Did I say that? Probably, although he a
  
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• Another Critic Is Fired Because Those He Covered Complained

  10-10-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Colin Thomas was the longtime theatre reviewer at Vancouver’s alt-weekly The Georgia Straight. Last week he surprised the theatre community with a blog post that began:  “I just got fired from The Georgia Straight. Thirty years. No warning. No compensation.”
  
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• The Man Who Was The Voice Of Met Opera Broadcasts For 29 Seasons Has Died At Age 96

  10-10-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Beginning in 1975, Peter Allen “delivered a kind of recitative, telling listeners what would happen as a given opera unfolded, and even what was happening before that, from the moment the lights went down to the moment the Met’s great gold curtain went up.”
  
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• Doing Queer Theatre In Lebanon – But Keeping Very Quiet About It

  10-10-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It was both liberating and frustrating for us to create this space where we could finally express ourselves in our city, but that had to be zoned off from the public in order to protect the safety of the actors. Many of them were not out at work or in their families.”
  
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• The Striking Pittsburgh Musicians Say (Of Course) It’s About Quality

  10-10-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The musicians, who have been on strike since Sept. 30, argue that management’s last proposal would do irreversible damage to the quality of the 120-year-old ensemble.”
  
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• Staring At The Soul Of Painter Alice Neel

  10-10-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The critics repeatedly return to the intense humanity of Neel’s paintings—not in the sense of a gentle or genteel compassion, but almost its opposite: Neel’s portraits unflinchingly depict the gamut of human vulnerabilities, emotions and attitudes.”
  
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• How Did The Satirical Turnip Prize Become So Highly Valued?

  10-10-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What started as a tongue-in-cheek award for locals has expanded into a global competition, with dozens of artists from around the world now vying each year for the turnip-impaled trophy on a rusty 6-inch nail.”
  
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• Is It Possible To Return To The Plasticity Of Our Teenage Brains?

  10-10-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You might find it easier to pick up Chinese, but you might also remember more acutely all the disappointments and traumas that you’d prefer to forget.”
  
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• Are We Loving Banksy To Commercial Death?

  10-10-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Is this ‘exit through the gift shop’ an ironic and knowing wink at Banksy’s critique of the commercialisation of street art in his 2010 movie? Is it possible to own an ironic Banksy mug?”
  
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• Theatres – Without Getting Partisan – Get Out The Vote

  10-10-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m really interested in not dictating how someone should vote, but there is a way to voice and to extend what you see and how you experience something—you have a form of expression, and sometimes that form of expression is artistic, but what we all have is the power to vote and to have our voices heard. So taking advantage of that journey from heart to head to action.”
  
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• The Not-So-Slavish Devotion Of A Pupil To His Greatest Dance Master

  10-10-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As precise as Kawaguchi is at duplicating Ohno’s twisted body moves and ascetic style, his primary purpose is something other than the creation of an exact copy — because he knows that’s impossible.”
  
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• Everyone Is Angry About The Unmasking Of Elena Ferrante, But For Wildly Different Reasons

  10-10-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the United States and Britain, the investigation into Ms. Ferrante’s true identity has been viewed by a vocal contingent through the lens of gender. Critics have accused the journalist who conducted it and the publications where his findings appeared of sexism. But in continental Europe, the criticisms have focused on invasion of privacy issues.”
  
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• The Artists Of Great Britain Are Worried About What Brexit Will Do To Them

  10-10-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are also concerns over a potential lack of freedom for artists and gallerists to relocate freely to and from London, Nathan says. He says there is a growing polarity between the primary and secondary art markets.”
  
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• Biography Is Almost A One Hundred Percent White (Male) Lives Matter Club. What Gives?

  10-10-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Given that there are so few educational programs or degrees in biographical writing, practitioners tend to come from diverse professional backgrounds, including journalism and history. Unfortunately, that seems to be where much of the diversity ends.”
  
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• Pro-Trump Art Show ‘From A Nightmare Trio’ Is Called Off

  10-10-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Gay conservative artist Lucian Wintrich was behind the planned exhibit at Pierogi, which was set to be called #DaddyWillSaveUs, as Fox News reported. Fox says the show’s title is a reference to the gay conservative practice of referring to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as ‘Daddy.'”
  
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• A celebration of botanical art throughout history – in pictures

  10-10-2016 12:30
  
  A new book Plant: Exploring The Botanical World celebrates the beauty and diversity of plants from around the world across all media - from murals in ancient Greece to a Napoleonic-era rose print and cutting-edge scans Continue reading...
  
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• Ed Ruscha: ‘All artists want to open the gates to heaven’

  10-10-2016 11:56
  
  The influential US artist Ed Ruscha, who was in London last week for a show of his latest works at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill in Mayfair (Extremes and In-Betweens, until 17 December), tells The Art Newspaper that the art world has changed beyond recognitionand that he has no plans just yet to stop making art.
  His new series of paintings include text rendered in a typeface of his own design that goes from big to little (Galaxy-USA-Dot, 2016), focusing on our lonely existence. Ruscha has been using
  
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• Calling all women artists: the Brooklyn Museum wants to take your picture

  10-10-2016 07:13
  
  You just cannot contain the kind of energy generated by the enormously supportive gathering of 733 women artists in Los Angeles, who came together for a group portrait at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery this August. At least that was the thinking of Carmen Hermo, an assistant curator at the Brooklyn Museum, who gained the support of museum leadership, including the director Anne Pasternak, to realise a New York version of the event.
  Now Be Here #2 will take place the morning of Sunday, 23 O
  
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• Top AJBlogs From The Weekend 10.09.16

  10-10-2016 05:05 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 AudiencePublished 2016-10-09
   
  On diversifying audiences
  This week The New Yorker had some shocking news: Andy
  
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