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• We Celebrate Creativity (But We’re Also Suspicious Of And Hostile To It)

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  “The paradox of this bias against creativity lies in the fact that creativity — along with its close cousin innovation — is frequently celebrated in business as a most desired organizational trait. Reports of management excellence from McKinsey to KPMG state that creativity among the workforce is a basic requirement for long-term business success. Why then does the organizational immune system kick into high gear whenever exposed to the very thing it nee
  
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• The one that got away: filmmaker tracks down the Warhol work that her family let go

  12-10-2016 23:00
  
  An art world novelty item that turned out to be a shrewd investment is the subject of a charming and clever documentary film that humanises the art market. Brillo Box (3off), which premiered at the New York Film Festival (until 16 October) and is due to air on HBO in early 2017, tracks the trajectory of a pop art piece by Andy Warhol that was originally bought by the New York filmmaker Lisanne Skylers family for $1,000 in 1969. It passed to owners in London and Los Angeles, until it ended up at
  
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• The one that got away: film-maker tracks down the Warhol work that her family let go

  12-10-2016 23:00
  
  An art world novelty item that turned out to be a shrewd investment is the subject of a charming and clever documentary film. Brillo Box (3off), which premiered at the New York Film Festival (until 16 October) and is due to air on HBO in early 2017, tracks the trajectory of a pop art piece by Andy Warhol that was originally bought by the New York filmmaker Lisanne Skylers family for $1,000 in 1969. It passed to owners in London and Los Angeles, until it ended up at an auction in New York in 201
  
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• Slight sense-of-humour bypass at the Barbican’s ‘vulgar’ new show

  12-10-2016 23:00
  
  Perhaps it is because your correspondent is an Essex girlAmericans, think New Jerseybut to my mind The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined (until 5 February), which opened at the Barbican Art Gallery last night, just isnt vulgar enough. Yes, the show gives this slippery and loaded term a thorough, academic and non-judgemental seeing-to. And yes, it is a treasure trove of wonderfully, excessive, transgressive exhibitsfrom 19th-century Viennese bonnets to Vivien Westwoods fig-leaved body suitbut a little m
  
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• Miss General Idea dons her glad rags again

  12-10-2016 23:00
  
  Miss General Idea, the fictional character created by the Canadian artist group General Idea, will make her Latin American debut at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City this month. She features prominently in the groups 1970s works, which parodied the art world and mimicked popular culture by appropriating mainstream magazine formats and staging campy beauty pageants. General Idea: Broken Time (27 October-12 February 2017), which has been organised by Agustn Prez Rubio and is due to travel to the Lat
  
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• Lawsuit shows difficulties of authentication and repair

  12-10-2016 23:00
  
  A complex lawsuit between the financier and art collector Asher Edelman and Washington D.C.s Geoffrey Diner Gallery has shed some light on the increasingly complicated business of art authentication and repair through foundations.
  The suit, filed in February, concerns a 1969 Pier Paolo Calzolari work, Five Neons say Rietuto, Mio Nome, Nebuloso, Avido, Farfallesco, which Edelman consigned to Diner in June 2015 for Londons Masterpiece art fair, staged that month. It was valued at $600,000.
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• Christie’s opens second exhibition space in China with Beijing flagship

  12-10-2016 23:00
  
  Christies opens its new central Beijing flagship location on 15 October with an exhibition on Pablo Picasso and his relationship to the Chinese artists Zhang Daqian and Qi Baishi. Housing the auction houses offices as well as areas for public events and exhibitions, it is Christies second venue in mainland China, joining its Shanghai branch which opened in October 2014 in the heritage Ampire Building.
  Christies does not currently hold auctions in Beijing, although its license permits it to, say
  
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• Art lawsuit shows difficulties of authentication and repair

  12-10-2016 23:00
  
  A complex lawsuit between the financier and art collector Asher Edelman and Washington D.C.s Geoffrey Diner Gallery has shed some light on the increasingly complicated business of art authentication and repair through foundations.
  The suit, filed in February, concerns a 1969 Pier Paolo Calzolari work, Five Neons say Rietuto, Mio Nome, Nebuloso, Avido, Farfallesco, which Edelman consigned to Diner in June 2015 for Londons Masterpiece art fair, staged that month. It was valued at $600,000.
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• A Brando for every naming occasion

  12-10-2016 23:00
  
  The Luxembourg & Dayan gallery kicked off its show Salvatore Scarpitta 1956-64 on 13 October with a VIP preview that included a toast by Julian Schnabel. The film-maker and painter said that the textural paintings by his friend, who died in 2007, needed to be seen, if only for their interplay with contemporary works by Joseph Beuys, Cy Twombly and Lucio Fontana. It takes time to see someones work, he said. Sometimes you dont get to see it until they die. I was reading this book that said ar
  
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• Time Keeps On Slippin’ Into The Future – Here’s Why

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  Even astronomer Phil Plait finds the physics a bit confounding, but here – complete with animated cartoons – is the explanation he’s gotten from his buddy Sean Carroll, a cosmologist. (Basically, it’s all about entropy.)
  
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• Restoration Unlocks Secrets Of The Magnificent Ghent Altarpiece

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  “A study in 2010 determined that the altarpiece needed conservation – to remove varnish and to adjust the colours of older retouches. A €1.3m grant followed and now – with the restoration one-third complete – the discoveries are astonishing, casting light on a touching story of fraternal love and admiration.”
  
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• Cameron Mackintosh: Weakened Pound Sterling Is Boosting West End Theatre Ticket Sales

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  He highlighted how surprised he was to see so many people in the West End on a Monday night, and added: “It’s the best September I can remember across my theatres.”
  
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• ‘Photography Has Always Been a Hybrid’: Liz Deschenes on Her ICA Boston Survey

  12-10-2016 21:11 via artnews.com
  In 2000, Sarah Charlesworth went to see tests of her newest work at Laumont Photographics, a lab in New York used by many artists to print their photographs. She was brought to a neutrally lighted room, where artists’ work hung … Read More
  
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• So What Are Dreams, Really? Five Theories

  12-10-2016 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you’ve ever been befuddled by a dream, take heart: You’re following a 4,000-year tradition of confusion. Over that time, humanity – in the form of religion, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience – has actually come to somewhat understand what exactly the mind is doing in its slumbering states. To that end, here are five of the leading theories for what dreams are and what they do to us.”
  
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• Report: Streaming Theatre Performances Don’t Threaten Live Audience Attendance

  12-10-2016 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Of 243 companies surveyed, 38% said the advent of live-to-digital has had a positive impact, compared with only 13% who said it had had a negative impact. In fact, an audience preference for live shows over the recorded alternative was found to be the biggest barrier to attendance of theatre broadcasts at cinemas. Just over half of those surveyed said their preference for live theatre put them off event cinema.”
  
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• The Twilight Of Leonard Cohen

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  “As I approach the end of my life,” says the songwriter/poet/mystic, “I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one’s life or one’s work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.” But David Remnick, somehow, manages to get him to do it.
  
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• Hundreds Of Languages Are Dying (But Maybe That’s Not Always A Bad Thing?)

  12-10-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Linguists instinctively decry the loss of language much as conservationist biologists once mourned the loss of every single species. But conservation is in the midst of a paradigm shift, moving towards acceptance that not all species can be saved, that invasive species are not always bad and that human-engineered ecosystems are not necessarily inferior to natural ones.”
  
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• Last art history A-level axed after Michael Gove cull of 'soft' subjects

  12-10-2016 19:12
  
  Exam board AQA to hold final A-levels in 2018 as art historians warn decision will damage opportunities for youngThe last exam board in England offering art history A-level will drop the subject from 2018, marking the latest in a cull of perceived “soft” subjects following the curriculum changes begun by the former education secretary Michael Gove.The exam board, AQA, which had described history of art as a subject leading students to “an appreciation of some significant themes
  
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• Reading ‘Don Quixote’ With Fugitives From Pinochet’s Coup

  12-10-2016 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ariel Dorfman: “Of the myriad times since adolescence that I have returned to the story of Don Quixote de la Mancha, there is one I choose to remember – that I cannot help but remember – as we commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes. That reading, in October 1973, took place among a distraught group of captive men and women who, like me, had sought asylum in the Argentine Embassy in Santiago, Chile, after the coup that overthrew the democratic gove
  
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• The Complicated And Colorful “Father Of Dance” In Canada

  12-10-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So how did ballet come to Canada? Like so much else, it arrived in waves, beginning with ambitious 17th-century colonists who brought European culture to the shores of North America in the form of dance lessons for indulged children. Only in the early 20th century did professional ballet training begin; pioneers of Canadian ballet such as Ottawa’s Gwendolen Osborne brought their tradition and training to students who could manage almost perfect 180-degree turnout. The country’
  
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• Lisbon’s MAAT: a spectacularly modest structure

  12-10-2016 18:10
  A new museum is set to transform the city’s riverside with its sculptural form
  
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• Five Art Fair Clichés That Need To Die

  12-10-2016 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A dietary staple of an exhausted creative vocabulary, artistic gimmicks continue to be regurgitated at art fairs around the globe. These well-worn ideas have appropriately been parodied on Tumblr pages like ‘Who Wore It Better’ and on Instagram via the anonymous profile @whos__who. Despite some variation in scale, material, or display, these tried-and-tested clichés now urgently demand retiring.”
  
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• Queen is keen on trailblazers at the Royal Academy

  12-10-2016 17:39
  
  It was a right royal occasion last night (11 October) at the Royal Academy of Arts in London where the Queen was honoured with a special awards ceremony marking her 90th birthday. Five distinguished individuals who have contributed as practitioners or educators in the fields of visual arts or architecture received gongs from HRH. The lucky recipients were: the architect David Adjaye; Iwona Blazwick, the director of Londons Whitechapel Gallery; Chris Fisher, a tutor at the Royal College of Art;
  
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• Everyone Has Dumped On Brutalist Architecture. So Now It’s Popular Again

  12-10-2016 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Despite two generations of abuse (and perhaps a little because of it), an enthusiasm for Brutalist buildings beyond the febrile, narrow precincts of architecture criticism has begun to take hold. Preservationists clamor for their survival, historians laud their ethical origins and an independent public has found beauty in their rawness.”
  
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• London exhibition puts US on show as postwar creative superpower

  12-10-2016 17:03
  
  British Museum’s American Dream will touch on many of the themes in the turbulent presidential electionOn the eve of the most bitterly fought US presidential election in decades, the British Museum has unveiled a print created by Andy Warhol in 1972, a demonic Richard Nixon urging the viewer to vote for George McGovern – a spectacular and spectacularly unsuccessful campaign image that preceded a landslide victory for Nixon.Warhol used a bland official photograph of Nixon and his wife
  
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• Putting Real Fire And Rain Onstage With Your Own Homemade Machine

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  Theatrical devices that can provide both a steady stream of rain and actual fire are expensive to rent, let alone buy. So the Wilma Theater’s crew designed and built one themselves.
  
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• Paul Kasmin Gallery Brings on Denis Gardarin as Senior Director, Adds Mathieu Mercier and Naama Tsabar to Its Roster

  12-10-2016 16:45 via artnews.com
  New York’s Paul Kasmin Gallery announced today that Denis Gardarin will now be its senior director. Prior to his new position, Gardarin directed an eponymous Lower East Side that was founded in 2014 and hosted solo shows through the end … Read More
  
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• Warhol’s anti-Nixon poster to go on show

  12-10-2016 16:37
  British Museum printmaking exhibition to include US artist’s first political campaign poster
  
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• They’re Remaking ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ – Can They Even *Do* That?

  12-10-2016 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This new Rocky Horror, airing Oct. 20 on Fox, “is its own strange experiment. It will test whether a decades-old musical about science-fiction B-movies and all kinds of sexual awakenings is still relevant or has grown quaint, and whether a Rocky Horror movie made with some polish and preparation is still Rocky Horror at all.”
  
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• There’s Still Plenty Of Unknown Work Being Discovered At The Clyfford Still Museum

  12-10-2016 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Five years after the Clyfford Still Museum opened its doors, much of its collection has yet to be examined. More than 300 paintings by the pioneering Abstract Expressionist whose works fill the museum remain unstretched. ‘A lot of the paintings still smell like they are drying – we’re the first people to unroll them since he made them,’ says Dean Sobel, the museum’s director.”
  
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• Christie’s to Open Chinese Flagship in Beijing

  12-10-2016 15:45 via artnews.com
  This Saturday, Christie’s will open a new flagship space in Beijing, which will be the auction house’s third permanent location in China, after opening in Hong Kong and Shanghai. The new space in Beijing will be located in a three-level building, with … Read More
  
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• What’s A Forensic Musicologist? Here’s What

  12-10-2016 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Peter Oxendale, a onetime glam rocker (‘We all have skeletons,’ he says), is perhaps the world’s leading forensic musicologist, the person musicians call when they believe someone has ripped off their work. In a penthouse overlooking the English Channel, he analyzes songs, everything from pop hits to classical pieces, until he is sure there has been an infringement, or not.”
  
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• Klaus Kertess, Art Dealer Who Launched Major Careers, Dead At 76

  12-10-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Barely a quarter-century old, Kertess opened Bykert [Gallery] in September of 1966, with the financial backing of his former Yale classmate Jeff Byers … Over the next nine years, Bykert would show a formidable roster of artists associated with Minimalism, Post-Minimalism, and Process Art, including Brice Marden, David Novros, Barry Le Va, Alan Saret, Chuck Close, Bill Bollinger, and Dorothea Rockburne, among many others.”
  
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• Morning Links: Duchess of Cambridge Edition

  12-10-2016 15:02 via artnews.com
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• Chief Curator Of Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Resigns In Wake Of Controversial Exhibit

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  “[Jeffrey] Uslip’s departure follows weeks of controversy over CAM’s current solo exhibition by white artist Kelley Walker that some found demeaning to African-Americans.”
  
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• As Aleppo burns in this age of lies, Picasso's Guernica still screams the truth about war

  12-10-2016 14:52
  
  MP Andrew Mitchell invoked the ghosts of Guernica in his speech on Aleppo this week. From the dead baby’s face to the figure in the fire, Picasso’s apocalypse will always outstare bloodthirsty dictatorsThe flames of Guernica still burn in modern memory. In 1937, the Nazi German air force bombed this ancient city in the hills of Spain’s Basque region on behalf of the fascist side in the Spanish civil war. The attack took more than 1,600 lives and was a revelation of the horror o
  
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• Was It More Than A Bad Back That Led La Scala Ballet’s Director To Resign?

  12-10-2016 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of Italy’s leading dailies is reporting that the company dancers’ public rebellion against Mauro Bigonzetti’s repertoire choices did indeed figure in his resignation last week – and that, while his back troubles were a deciding factor, the concern wasn’t solely about Bigonzetti’s own well-being.
  
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• Paris’s History Museum Closes For Three-Year Renovation

  12-10-2016 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Musée Carnavalet – the museum of Paris’s history, which opened in 1880 and is run by the City of Paris – closed last week for an extensive renovation and restoration. It is due to reopen in late 2019 or early 2020.”
  
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• Violinist Daniel Hope Named ‘Artistic Partner’ At San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra

  12-10-2016 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ever since the announcement by New Century Chamber Orchestra that its music director will leave at the end of the current season, the organization has been faced with Mission Impossible: replacing the irrepressible and – not to mince words – irreplaceable Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. And yet, the news today is of success.”
  
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• Indie Films Are Increasingly Video-On-Demand. That’s A Problem When We Don’t Know How Many People See Them

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  “Because neither indie distributors nor streaming services release audience numbers for VOD movies, our hands are tied: We have no idea what constitutes a hit or a flop on VOD — how many thousands, or maybe it’s tens of thousands, or maybe it’s hundreds of thousands — of people will watch a movie during its VOD run.”
  
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• ‘Laughter Is Possible Laughter Is Possible’ – The Talent And Torment Of Shirley Jackson

  12-10-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Here’s how not to be taken seriously as a woman writer: Use demons and ghosts and other gothic paraphernalia in your fiction. Describe yourself publicly as ‘a practicing amateur witch’ and boast about the hexes you have placed on prominent publishers. Contribute comic essays to women’s magazines about your hectic life as a housewife and mother.”
  
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• Theatre Festival Bars Audience From Play; Audience Shows Up Anyway And Demands, Politely, To Be Let In

  12-10-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hours before the performance Sunday night, the MESS festival announced it would allow only the festival jury to see “Our Violence and Your Violence” by Croatian director Oliver Frljić, an award-winning director whose provocative plays often criticize nationalism and spark protests. The play, which has a fairly abstract plot, contains scenes of nudity and rape.” But the ticketholders weren’t having it.
  
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• Doris Salcedo covers Bogotá square with stitched banners in memory of victims of civil war

  12-10-2016 13:06
  
  Following Colombias shock vote to reject a landmark peace deal with Farc rebels, the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo covered the main square in the capital of Bogot with 7,000 metres of white fabric yesterday (11 October).
  The shroud-like installation, which volunteers stitched together from individual banners, bears the names of just 7% of the victims of the conflict, written in ash. An estimated 260,000 people have been killed over the past 60 years. The names are poorly written, almost erased
  
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• Restored and ravishing: the magnificent Ghent Altarpiece gives up its centuries-old mysteries

  12-10-2016 13:00
  
  It is one of the most influential, and most stolen, works ever. But for centuries, the origins of the Ghent Altarpiece have been shrouded in mystery. Now a restoration is revealing the truth about this masterpieceIt has been called “the most influential painting ever” and “the world’s most coveted masterpiece”. It is also the most frequently stolen. And now, after a four-year restoration to clean away six centuries of dirt and varnish, the Ghent Altarpiece looks the
  
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• British Museum dreams big with new show of American prints

  12-10-2016 12:31
  
  The British Museum has been intensively buying American prints for a major exhibition next year. The show, The American Dream: Pop to the Present, will deal with the 1950s to today. Some of the works are very large, and the ambitious presentation is to be held in the new Sainsbury Exhibition Galleries rather than in the smaller prints and drawing gallery.Of the 200 American prints, 100 have been acquired in the past eight years with the exhibition in mind. Hartwig Fischer, the British Museums d
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.11.16

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  In speeches, presentations, and workshops, I frequently get to the Q&A session and find myself faced with not a few perplexed expressions. In general, people understand the importance of community engagement. However, staff members … read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-10-11Picasso and the Perfectly Bearable Likeness of Being
  Picasso was, of course, a great and natural draughtsman. Even as a child he had a fluent and steady line, and was capable … r
  
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• Colombian artist creates enormous shroud to honor country's war dead

  12-10-2016 11:30
  
  Doris Salcedo, best known for her 2007 crack in the floor at the Tate Modern, has covered Bogotá’s central plaza in a massive white shroud with victims’ namesSurrounded by the seats of Colombia’s legislative, legal and religious powers, Bogotá’s central Plaza de Bolívar has for centuries been the stage for the country’s political and public life: a bustling space where protesters often gather to chant slogans over the din of honking traffic.But
  
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• Colombia artist 'adds up the absences' with public art project mourning war

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  Artist Doris Salcedo covered Bogotá’s central plaza in a massive white shroud with victims’ names as ‘a way to bring the war closer to those who haven’t lived it’Surrounded by the seats of Colombia’s legislative, legal and religious powers, Bogotá’s central Plaza de Bolivar has for centuries been the stage for the country’s political and public life: a bustling space where protesters often gather to chant slogans over the din of honki
  
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• Bahraini art fair gets makeover for 2017 edition

  12-10-2016 11:14
  
  ArtBahrain, the art fair that launched its pilot edition in 2015, is returning next year under the new name Art Bahrain Across Borders (ArtBAB). The revamped event, which last year attracted 15,000 visitors and raised 350,000 in sales, is now supported by Tamkeen, Bahrains economic development agency.  With a population of 1.2 million, Bahrain is the third smallest country in Asia, but it is home to a flourishing art scene. ArtBAB aims to give a platform to Bahraini artists, exposing them
  
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• 'My nose is askew, my chin is formidable – it's me, all right' … a portrait of my mental health

  12-10-2016 09:00
  
  Gail Porter, Ricky Hatton, Bill Oddie … in her portrait series Bipolar Picasso, Andrea Tyrimos explores our attitudes to mental illness. Mark Rice-Oxley joins the stars laying themselves bare in her studio
  It can be unsettling to be painted. The last person who tried to paint me was my daughter. She missed out my mouth. Now Andrea Tyrimos is having a go. I’m optimistic that she will do a better job as a) she is a proper artist, and b) she is planning to exhibit the piece in a galler
  
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