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• Former Knoedler director settles lawsuit with casino billionaire over fake Rothko

  18-10-2016 23:04
  
  Ann Freedman, the former director of New Yorks Knoedler gallery, and Frank Fertitta, the billionaire casino magnate and owner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, have reached a settlement in the eighth of ten lawsuits brought by collectors against the now-defunct gallery. The terms of the settlement, which was filed in the Manhattan federal court on 14 October, were not disclosed. From 1994 to 2008, Knoedler sold nearly $70m in paintings supposedly by Abstract Expressionist and other Modern
  
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• Diversity In Theatre Isn’t About Telling “Black” Stories

  18-10-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In fact, to be a black writer is one of the most liberating things a person can be. I am black and I write about whatever I want – I always have and I always will. The only thing that makes a black writer feel limited is if others try to force their own definition of what it means to be black and a writer.”
  
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• The ‘top 40’ contemporary art galleries in France, ranked by artists and peer recognition

  18-10-2016 23:00
  
  Our French sister paper Le Journal des Arts has published its first ranking of the top 40 contemporary art galleries in France. The sociologist and JDA contributor Alain Quemin developed a two-part methodology to rank the galleries, with data available in spring 2016. First, galleries were assessed based on 19 criteria of recognition by peers in the art world and the art marketincluding Marcel Duchamp prize-winning artists, participation in fairs and number of galleries in France and abroadto s
  
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• The Modern art Stalin did not want Russians to see

  18-10-2016 23:00
  
  More than 100 Modern masterworks from the collection of the Russian industrialist Sergei Shchukin arrive in the French capital this month for a landmark exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (22 October-20 February 2017). The shrewd businessmans appetite for then-radical works by Paul Czanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso rivalled that of the Stein family. On frequent trips to Paris between 1898 and 1914, Shchukin forged relationships with leading dealers and artists.Icons of Modern Art:
  
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• New York’s special place in the life of Max Beckmann adds zest to Met’s survey

  18-10-2016 23:00
  The German painter Max Beckmann died on the street in New York on 27 December 1950 while on his way to the Metropolitan Museum to see his painting Self-Portrait in Blue Jacket (1950). This story is the inspiration behind the exhibition Max Beckmann in New York, which is now at the Metropolitan Museum (until 20 February 2017). The artists reputation preceded his arrival in the city in 1949. Among his American collectors were Mrs Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, co-founder of MoMA, who bought one paintin
  
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• French Realist painting resurfaces at Cincinnati auction thanks to Facebook tip

  18-10-2016 23:00
  
  A long-lost French Realist masterpiece by the Academic artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau was sold to a phone bidder for $950,000 hammer ($1.1m with premium) on 15 October at Cowans Auctions in Cincinnati, Ohio.
  The painting, titled Rayon de Soleil (Sunbeam) (1899), had not been seen publicly since it was sold between 1909 and 1910 for around $6,500 by Moulton and Ricketts to a buyer in Elkhart, Indiana, and was passed on to his descents. It was offered at Cowans with a conservative estimate of
  
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• Fiac spills over into Petit Palais

  18-10-2016 23:00
  
  The 43rd edition of Fiac (Foire Internationale dArt Contemporain), which opens to VIPs today at the Grand Palais in Paris, is expanding into the Petit Palais opposite. A new section of the fair, called On Site, will take place in the historic venue, which, like the Grand Palais, was built for the Exposition Universelle in 1900.
  Thirty-eight dealers will show 40 works in the spaces of the Petit Palais, such as the Pavillon Sud and the Jardin du Petit Palais. Galerie Kamel Mennour in Paris is sho
  
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• ‘A New Kind of Spatial Understanding’: Jane Livingston on Richard Diebenkorn at a Pivotal Moment of Transition

  18-10-2016 22:47 via artnews.com
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• What Apple Learned About Innovation From Glenn Gould

  18-10-2016 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Canadian pianist was an innovator, a maverick who went his own way. But he had some ideas about innovation not being just for the sake of innovating…
  
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• Louis Menand: What Has Cultural Criticism Become In The Age Of Crowds?

  18-10-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The cultural critic’s conceptual enemy is the smoothing formula known as ‘the wisdom of crowds.’ On that theory, it must be the case that the person whose favorite song is the No. 1 song, whose favorite book is a best-seller, whose favorite food just switched from kale to quinoa, is the luckiest person in the world, because the culture is producing exactly the goods that he or she enjoys. This rule would apply right down all the rungs of life-style choices within your de
  
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• There Will Be a ‘Pop-Up Weed Garden’ Outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Thursday

  18-10-2016 21:58 via artnews.com
  Philly.com reports that N. A. Poe and Chris Goldstein, two cannabis activists, will be hosting what they call a “pop-up weed garden” outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art this Thursday. The occasion is the two-year anniversary of Philadelphia’s decriminalization of … Read More
  
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• Detroit’s Motown Museum Plans Big Expansion

  18-10-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 50,000-square-foot project will rise around the existing museum, housed in the humble Hitsville, U.S.A., building where Berry Gordy Jr. launched the careers of stars such as the Supremes, Temptations and Stevie Wonder.
  
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• Yuja Wang Named Musical America Artist Of The Year

  18-10-2016 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Andrew Norman was named composer of the year; the bass-baritone Eric Owens, vocalist of the year; and Eighth Blackbird, the new-music sextet currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, ensemble of the year.
  
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• In the Company of Jackals: Michal Rovner’s Pace Show Is Chilling

  18-10-2016 21:11 via artnews.com
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• Our Words For Animal Noises Are Supposed To Be Onomatopoeias – So Why Are They So Different From Language To Language?

  18-10-2016 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Basically, because not all languages have the same sounds. For instance, in Japanese, a bee simply can’t go bzzzzz …
  
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• Leo Beranek, Father Of Modern Acoustical Science, Dead At 102

  18-10-2016 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Under his leadership, [television station] WCVB instituted news programming changes that continue to shape Boston’s broadcasting landscape today. Dr. Beranek also was a leading philanthropist for major arts institutions, particularly the Boston Symphony Orchestra … Yet, it was his work in acoustics that created a lasting legacy, through improved concert venues in Boston, at Tanglewood, and around the world.” He was also, alas, involved in one of the 20th century’s
  
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• Ambitious Miami Museum/Theatre Project Collapses As College Pulls Out

  18-10-2016 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Miami Dade College’s grand plan to build a massive downtown cultural center imploded Monday when college trustees chose to cancel the project rather than proceed amid a declining real estate market and an escalating feud with a local art dealer.
  
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• Painter David Salle Turns Art Critic

  18-10-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Look, art doesn’t have to be daunting. It’s helpful to think of works of art in ways similar to how we think about other people in our lives. Some people are harder to get to know. Some are more open and accessible and we feel we know them straight off. Other people, we feel as though their essence is more guarded.”
  
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• Black Films Matter: African-American Indie Cinema Rises Again

  18-10-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One thing is for sure: looking back, the 90s was a golden age. The amount of black cinema breaking through at that time is astonishing. … A new generation of black film-makers is starting to respond to this reality, down the road those 90s pioneers paved.”
  
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• What Will Pop Culture Look Like In The Future? Here are Some Projections…

  18-10-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The act of going to the movies itself will likely become an expensive, high-culture sort of ritual, like the opera. Hollywood classics will be digitally retooled as VR environments and shown in restored out-of-town multiplexes. And ex-movie stars, desperate for cash, will perform the movies live.”
  
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• Kader Attia Wins the 2016 Prix Marcel Duchamp

  18-10-2016 19:04 via artnews.com
  The Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l’Art Français announced today that Kader Attia has won its 2016 Prix Marcel Duchamp. The prize is awarded annually to a French artist. This year’s other nominees … Read More
  
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• He Stumbled On Grandpa’s Old Reel-To-Reel Tapes – And Found A Motherlode Of His Country’s Endangered Folk Music

  18-10-2016 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When Daniel Lofredo Rota began clearing out the apartment of his dead grandfather here in April 2014, he found several tons of newspaper, stacks of letters, broken typewriters and about 300 magnetic reel-to-reel tapes, almost perfectly preserved after 45 years in a cool, dry place. … It was a cultural time capsule carrying a vital chapter of Ecuador’s musical history.”
  
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• Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific, Norwich, UK — ‘Rich adornment’

  18-10-2016 18:45
  A comprehensive show that displays 270 objects from a nation renowned for its artistry
  
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• Actors Union Threatens Video Game Makers With Strike

  18-10-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The union said that it has tried for more than 19 months to negotiate a new deal with prominent employers in the video game industry and that performers have been governed by a two-decade old contract still in place.”
  
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• Anne Midgette, Classical Music Critic, Turns Her Reviewer’s Eye And Ear To Art

  18-10-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The work of the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson is all about the quest for beauty and the ways in which that quest is doomed to failure, bogging down in mediocrity or kitsch, or, in these works, the trappings of Las Vegas. But the work radiates so much theatricality and glitz and humor that it feels like a big party. For a show about failure, it sure is having a good time.”
  
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• Behold, the ICA LA’s New Mark Bradford–Designed Logo and Visual Identity

  18-10-2016 17:57 via artnews.com
  Today, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (formerly the Santa Monica Museum of Art) revealed its new logo and visual identity, which was designed in collaboration with artist Mark Bradford. The ICA LA’s makeover will grace its new wHY architecture firm-designed location, … Read More
  
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• Are Our Theatre Spaces Failing Our Imaginations?

  18-10-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We believe in the power of imagination to transport audiences across the universe and everywhere in between, but we could do better to reckon with the technological abilities and limitations of our artistic spaces. How does the architecture of those spaces, of rehearsal rooms and theatres, subtly shape the stories we tell? And how might we acknowledge within our work that making theatre extends beyond rooms?”
  
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• 200 Walk Out Of Amy Schumer’s Arena Show When She Disses Donald Trump

  18-10-2016 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You’d think Amy Schumer fans would know where she stands.” But a couple hundred people in Tampa evidently didn’t. Said the comedian in a statement, “I want to thank the 8400 people who stayed. We had a great time! “
  
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• Russia Today’s Bank Accounts Shut Down; UK Denies Kremlin’s Accusations Of Censorship

  18-10-2016 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “RT’s editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, … said she had received a letter out of the blue from NatWest saying that it was pulling the plug on the broadcaster’s accounts from mid-December. ‘We have recently undertaken a review of your banking arrangements with us and reached the conclusion that we will no longer provide these facilities,’ it said.”
  
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• Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Buys Another Theater

  18-10-2016 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is buying the Merriam Theater from the University of the Arts for $11 million, leaders from the two arts groups say. … With this purchase, the Kimmel bolsters its control of major arts venues between Pine and Locust Streets totaling well over 8,000 seats.”
  
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• MoMA Gets A Collection, And A Research Institute, Of Latin American Art

  18-10-2016 15:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Before Lygia Clark was getting major museum retrospectives; before Adriana Varejão was represented by leading galleries; before Beatriz Milhazes was achieving high prices at auction, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros was collecting Latin American art … Over the last 16 years, Ms. Cisneros and her husband, Gustavo A. Cisneros, have donated 40 of these pieces to the Museum of Modern Art, where she has served on the board since 1992. Now, they are giving 102 more and establishing a r
  
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• Pittsburgh Symphony Cancels Yet More Concerts; No Negotiations With Striking Musicians Scheduled

  18-10-2016 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Pittsburgh Symphony canceled all orchestra events through Nov. 18 in the wake of the musicians’ strike, the organization announced Monday. … As a result, at least four of the 20 core classical concert weekends and two of the orchestra’s seven pops programs scheduled for this season will not take place.”
  
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• Columbia’s New Doctoral Program In Dance Education Will Train Teachers Of Teachers

  18-10-2016 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As the decline of arts education in recent decades has increasingly alarmed cultural institutions, a new $4.36 million gift aims to bolster dance education by taking a different approach. The gift, from Jody Gottfried Arnhold and her husband, John, will allow Teachers College at Columbia University to establish a new doctoral program to train those who train dance teachers.”
  
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• Morning Links: Kerry James Marshall Edition

  18-10-2016 14:50 via artnews.com
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• Even The Philadelphia Orchestra Can’t Improve The Lot Of The Professional Choral Singer

  18-10-2016 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “New, entirely professional, and a child of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir would seem to be much-needed good news on the choral landscape. But so far in its formation, some Philadelphia vocal freelancers are experiencing consternation or even heartbreak at how it’s being handled.”
  
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• Bob Dylan Has Given No Response Whatsoever To His Nobel Prize

  18-10-2016 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So far the American troubadour has responded with silence since he won the prize on Thursday. He gave a concert in Las Vegas that very night, but made no mention of the accolade … [though his] set ended with a cover of Frank Sinatra’s ‘Why Try to Change Me Now’.”
  
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• Nobels For Literature Are A Ridiculous Idea. But This Year’s Award Makes Them Relevant!

  18-10-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I have to admit that the judges have done something remarkable. And you have to say, chapeau! For they have thrown the cat among the pigeons in a most delightful manner. First they have given the prize to someone who wasn’t courting it in any way, and that in itself is cheering. Second, in provoking the backlash of the purists who demand that the Nobel go to a novelist or poet, and the diehard fans who feel their literary hero has been short changed, they have revealed the pettiness
  
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• Uffizi Gallery Overhauls Display Of Old Masters

  18-10-2016 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The new layout drastically modifies how the museum’s sizable collection of Botticelli paintings and works by Pollaiolo, Hugo van der Goes, Rogier van der Weyden and Domenico Ghirlandaio are exhibited, giving all the works sufficient space to shine.”
  
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• Tirzah Garwood: portrait of the artist and her circle

  18-10-2016 09:00
  
  Tirzah Garwood’s autobiography, finished when she had just lost her husband, Eric Ravilious, is as evocative as her workTirzah Garwood (right) met Eric Ravilious in 1925 at the Eastbourne School of Art, where he was a teacher and she a student. Tall and thin with a “small head that jutted out at the back” and “long, girlish lashes”, his manners were like those of a curate, and she could tell straight off that he was “not quite a gentleman”. He also seeme
  
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• Kader Attia wins France's prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize

  18-10-2016 05:47
  
  The artist Kader Attia, who was born in Paris to Algerian parents, has won the 35,000 Marcel Duchamp PrizeFrances answer to the UKs Turner Prize, organised by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art and the Centre Pompidou. "Art sometimes possesses the talent of divinationthe capacity to pick up on vibrations in a world in mutation. Kader Attia's work has this fascinating power," says Serge Lasvignes, the Pompidou's president.For the first time, the work of all four shortl
  
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• Kader Attia wins France's Marcel Duchamp Prize

  18-10-2016 05:47
  
  The artist Kader Attia, who was born in Paris to Algerian parents, has won the 35,000 Marcel Duchamp PrizeFrances answer to the UKs Turner Prize, organised by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art and the Centre Pompidou. "Art sometimes possesses the talent of divinationthe capacity to pick up on vibrations in a world in mutation. Kader Attia's work has this fascinating power," says Serge Lasvignes, the Pompidou's president.For the first time, the work of all four shortl
  
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• Artist Kader Attia wins Frances Marcel Duchamp Prize

  18-10-2016 05:47
  
  The artist Kader Attia, who was born in Paris to Algerian parents, has won the 35,000 Marcel Duchamp PrizeFrances answer to the UKs Turner Prize, organised by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art and the Centre Pompidou.
  For the first time, the work of all four shortlisted artists is on view in an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (until 29 January). It shows that this years prize is not a launch pad for budding young talents. All four finalistsKader Attia, Yto
  
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• Art Gallery of NSW: Warhol, Mapplethorpe and Australian women focus of 2017 program

  18-10-2016 04:26
  
  Modernist artists Georgia O’Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith among gallery’s highlightsA major new Andy Warhol exhibition, a retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography and work by modernist artists Georgia O’Keeffe, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith are among the highlights of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ 2017 program, which was announced on Tuesday.At the launch event, Wayne Tunicliffe – the gallery’s head cur
  
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