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• Cincinnati May Festival Gets A New Conductor

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  Currently the chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester, United Kingdom, Juanjo Mena has made several recordings with that orchestra, including a Falla album named Recording of the Month by BBC Music magazine His previous posts are artistic director and principal conductor of the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra (1999-2008) and principal guest conductor of both the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway and Teatro Carlo Felice, in Genoa, Italy.
  
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• Tala Madani at Pilar Corrias Gallery, London

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• What to see at Tefaf New York

  21-10-2016 23:00
  
  The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) opened its first edition in New York to VIPs on Fridayincluding CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper, who quickly snapped up a Portrait of Mariana de Silva y Sarmiento, Duquesa de Huescar by Anton Raphael Mengs from New York Old Master dealer Otto Naumann for $275,000. The fair, which opens to the public today and runs until Wednesday 26 October, brings together 94 international exhibitors in the Park Avenue Armory. Here is our selection of stands you cannot miss:L
  
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• How collectors made silver all their own

  21-10-2016 23:00
  The exhibition Silver: Light and Shade at the Holburne Museum in Bath brings together 500 years worth of silver-making, from the earliest surviving English drinking vessel, the Cassel Beaker (around 1496-97), to contemporary pieces such as a water beaker made in 2013 by the UK silversmith Rod Kelly. The survey aims to explore whats unique, whats different and what people often miss when looking at silver, says the shows curator, Catrin Jones.
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• Ai Weiwei returns to New York with four solo gallery shows

  21-10-2016 22:28
  
  The ever popular Ai Weiwei will return to New York in November with four big gallery shows, two at Mary Boone, one at Deitch Projects, and one at Lissons recently opened US outpost in Chelsea. Three of the shows, organised under the title Roots and Branches, feature tree-inspired sculptures, while the fourth will incorporate clothing from the refugee camps the Chinese activist-artist has visited.Though Ai lived in New York for many years in the 1980s, the artist was unable to attend many of his
  
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• Orchestra Pay, Orchestra Prestige, And Just Making A Living

  21-10-2016 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Norman Lebrecht: “Isaac Stern told me that when he was growing up in 1920s San Francisco ‘a musician in the orchestra was a person‘ – even if he earned a pittance. He had social status. As that status declined it had to be replaced with other compensations or orchestral life would have ceased to exist. So wages rose.”
  
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• Kent Nagano Talks About His First Ten Years At The Montreal Symphony

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  “When I first got to the city, many people on the administration staff said, ‘…oh dear, we have a grey-haired syndrome here…,’ meaning that our audience is getting older and older. But, we decided over the course of the season, that we would never change one thing – we felt that the one thing that transcends generation is the natural human tendancy to appreciate exceptional quality. So rather than push the bar down, we pushed the bar very, very high, where
  
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• Verdict in Wildenstein estate case due on 12 January

  21-10-2016 20:58
  
  The Paris criminal court will give its verdict on 12 January in the tax fraud and money laundering case against the Wildenstein family of art dealers, the presiding judge announced on Thursday, 20 October. Six individuals and two finance companies are charged with having hidden the majority of a fortune estimated at several billion euros in works of art and property from French tax authorities, thanks to sophisticated financial arrangements.The prosecution requested four years in prison, two su
  
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• New Art Gallery, Walsall at risk of closing after only 15 years

  21-10-2016 20:38
  
  The New Art Gallery in Walsall, in the West Midlands of England, is at risk of closure under cost-cutting proposals by the local council. The 21m National Lottery-funded gallery heralded a boom in regional UK art institutions when it opened in early 2000 in partnership with Arts Council England. The first major public commission for the architects Caruso St Johnwhich earned them a nomination for the RIBA Stirling prizewas conceived by Walsall Borough Council as a force for urban regeneration an
  
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• New Art Gallery in Walsall at risk of closing after only 15 years

  21-10-2016 20:38
  
  The New Art Gallery in Walsall, in the West Midlands of England, is at risk of closure under cost-cutting proposals by the local council. The 21m National Lottery-funded gallery heralded a boom in regional UK art institutions when it opened in early 2000 in partnership with Arts Council England. The first major public commission for the architects Caruso St Johnwhich earned them a nomination for the RIBA Stirling prizewas conceived by Walsall Borough Council as a force for urban regeneration an
  
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• Thom Jones, 71, The Janitor Who Became A Literary Star In The 90s

  21-10-2016 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Even during the years when he was working in factories, pushing a broom, getting fired from jobs, battling illness and going through rehab, Mr. Jones always thought of himself as a writer. “I’m a great believer in fate, and I believe that all those things in my life had to happen — being a drunk, a boxer, the epilepsy, the diabetes,” he told the Seattle Times. “You have to suffer a lot before you can be a writer of fiction.”
  
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• What The CIA’s “Secret” Abstract Art Collections Says About Spies, Politics And Art

  21-10-2016 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The original 11 paintings still hang on the walls of the agency’s headquarters, “represent[ing] an elemental approach to art [and] a swashbuckling donor,” according to a brief blurb on the agency’s website. What these paintings represent about the CIA’s relationship to the art world, though, is more complicated. On these walls, the intersection between US art and politics is especially busy.
  
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• What The CIA’s “Secret” Abstract Art Collection Says About Spies, Politics And Art

  21-10-2016 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The original 11 paintings still hang on the walls of the agency’s headquarters, “represent[ing] an elemental approach to art [and] a swashbuckling donor,” according to a brief blurb on the agency’s website. What these paintings represent about the CIA’s relationship to the art world, though, is more complicated. On these walls, the intersection between US art and politics is especially busy.
  
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• Seattle International Film Festival Gets A New Director

  21-10-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Seattle International Film Festival, the largest film festival in the country, has been searching for a new executive director for a year. Thursday morning they announced they’ve found one in Sarah Wilke, who has been the managing director at Seattle’s premier contemporary performing arts haus, On the Boards, for the last 12 years. She’ll take over for interim director Christine Martin in January.
  
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• Enough Of Bad Sex In Fiction – It’s Time For A Good Sex In Fiction Award, And Now There Is One

  21-10-2016 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You may have heard of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, but isn’t it about time we started rewarding good sex in literature? That’s exactly what Erotic Review [magazine] decided, prompting them to create the Good Sex in Fiction Award. And while the Bad Sex in Fiction long list is certainly worth a few laughs, let’s all be honest: It’s the Good Sex in Fiction long list that you’re going to want to go out and read.”
  
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• The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture

  21-10-2016 18:32
  The award has cast its net wide — and the result is an impressive shortlist
  
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• Shchukin at Fondation Louis Vuitton

  21-10-2016 18:32
  The collector’s works are the jewels of Russian museums — and rarely seen until now
  
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• The Ten Best Books On Creativity

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  Just as no two artists have the same working methods, so too might your next bolt of inspiration come from an unexpected place, be it a groundbreaking building, a compelling work of art, or a spare Oblique Strategies deck.
  
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• For FIAC, Projects Sprawl All Over Paris as Dealers Ring Up Sales Inside the Grand Palais

  21-10-2016 18:29 via artnews.com
  “Art is what helps draw us out of inertia.” On the street in front of the Grand Palais, where the dynamic 43rd edition of the FIAC or Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Paris’s international art fair, is being held from October … Read More
  
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• Philly’s Theatrical Decency Cop (He Was An Actual Policeman)

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  “For most of two decades, Detective Sgt. Jake Gomborow was usually the cop on the aisle. … ‘Acting under instructions, I attended the performance [of a drama titled King Hunger] … on Saturday evening, December 6th, 1924. The acting in the entire play, aside from the few vulgar and sacrilegious remarks, was weird and gruesome, and in my opinion, the average audience in any theatre would have walked out before the show was over. My reason for not stopping the performance
  
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• Snapshot: ‘Becoming South Sudan’ by Alinka Echeverría

  21-10-2016 17:49
  The artist’s work inhabits the hinterland between anthropology and conceptual art
  
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• Clipped wings: the tragic true story of The Goldfinch

  21-10-2016 17:28
  
  It was made famous by Donna Tartt’s novel, but the truth about its artist, Carel Fabritius, is stranger than fictionIt’s just a painting of a chained bird on its perch, but The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius has become a pop icon. When I last saw it at the Mauritshuis in The Hague it was singled out from other paintings, roped off, almost like the Mona Lisa. Now it is to be exhibited at the Scottish National Gallery. Will the crowds there from 4 November match the 200,000 people who qu
  
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• Do Orchestra Musicians Deserve To Be Paid More? Of Course. Should They Be? That’s A Different Question!

  21-10-2016 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 1967, classical music still occupied a central position in our high culture. Now it doesn’t. Most Americans don’t care about classical music and don’t go to orchestral concerts. I think they should, but it doesn’t matter what I think. They’ll do what they want to do—and one thing they don’t want to do is go out of their way to hike the salary of a violinist in Philadelphia who already makes over $2,400 a week, especially when the median weekly
  
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• ‘There Is Something Very Vital Here in America’: Max Beckmann on Teaching in New York, in 1951

  21-10-2016 17:02 via artnews.com
  With the Metropolitan Museum of Art having just opened a show dedicated to Max Beckmann’s brief time in New York, from 1949 until his death in 1950, we turn back to the March 1951 issue of ARTnews, which included an interview that … Read More
  
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• English National Opera Finally Gets A Music Director

  21-10-2016 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An experienced conductor with over 120 recordings to his name, [Martyn] Brabbins will join ENO in a troubled time for the company. Attempts to recoup the company’s losses have led to clashes between management and musical staff. [In March,] Brabbins’s predecessor Mark Wigglesworth resigned the post after disagreements with the executive panel over the future of the company.”
  
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• ‘After Orlando’: Dozens Of Micro-Plays Respond To The Pulse Shooting

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  “The only criterion was that the plays should be around 3 to 5 minutes. By mid-August, 70 short plays had come in from the likes of Lindsey Ferrentino, Neil LaBute, Mia Chung, and Nathan Alan Davis. The plays will be presented in readings around the country … So far more than 40 theatrical institutions and universities nationwide and abroad have signed on.”
  
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• ‘The Every 28 Hours Plays’ – A Theatrical Response To Ferguson, In Missouri And Nationwide

  21-10-2016 16:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The projects’ founders] began reaching out to playwrights around the U.S. to see if they would write new short plays to add into the mix, and received dozens, including works from Neil LaBute, Dominique Morisseau, and Lynn Nottage. When [they] decided to put the idea on its feet in Missouri, they found that theatremakers from across the nation were interested in joining in.”
  
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• So How Hard Is It To Work As A Black Ballerina?

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  “Many company directors – consciously or not – think, ‘I don’t know if it looks like ballet if it doesn’t look like 12 identical swans.’ … While dancers and company directors … say it’s extremely difficult for black dancers to get a job in a ballet company – especially if that company already has a ‘token’ black ballerina – they acknowledge that the task of diversifying dance troupes is made more difficult by s
  
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• Phil Chess, Co-Founder Of Chess Records And Pioneer Of Blues And Rock Industry, Dead At 95

  21-10-2016 15:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Mr. Chess and his brother Leonard Chess arrived in America as little boys, two Jewish immigrant kids from Poland. They started Chess in 1950, recording Muddy Waters, Etta James, Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy and other top musicians who spread the gospel of the blues. Teens in England and around the world heard the so-called ‘race music’ Chess helped popularize, and the cross-pollination helped birth rock.”
  
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• At 90, Chuck Berry Is Releasing His First Album In 38 Years

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  “Beyoncé and Radiohead may have surprised the world with unexpected records, but Berry likely just left a few jaws on the floor. Because on Tuesday, he announced Chuck, his first record since 1979’s Rock It.”
  
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• We May Have New Sculptures By Donatello And Verrocchio (And Maybe Even Da Vinci)

  21-10-2016 15:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Museo dell’Opera del Duomo [in Florence] presented two little-known 15th-century terra-cotta sculptures on Thursday as the possible work of Donatello and Verrocchio (with, perhaps, the help of Verrocchio’s erstwhile assistant Leonardo da Vinci), proposed attributions that are expected to stir debate in Renaissance art scholarship.”
  
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• Books Stranded At Sea: Publishers’ Latest Headache Is A Bankrupt Shipping Company

  21-10-2016 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Hanjin Shipping Company, which filed for bankruptcy in August, has seen dozens of its ships – some carrying significant orders from trade houses – stranded at sea or seized by creditors. Affected publishers range from St. Martin’s Press to W.W. Norton to Lee & Low.”
  
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• Italy's 'monuments men' unearth treasures from ruins of Amatrice quake

  21-10-2016 14:51
  
  For the ‘Blue Helmet’ squad of police and art experts, recovering cultural heritage is part of rebuilding after August’s earthquakeThe first mission of the new Italian “Blue Helmet” force dedicated to defending cultural heritage was supposed to be in Palmyra, the ancient Syrian city whose monuments were destroyed by Islamic State.But when a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy in August, killing 298 people and devastating the town of Amatrice, the 60 modern
  
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• New York Philharmonic Awards New $30K Piano Prize

  21-10-2016 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Benjamin] Grosvenor, 24, won the first Ronnie and Lawrence Ackman Classical Piano Prize – which, in addition to the prize money, comes with opportunities to perform with the orchestra. He will play with the Philharmonic in April 2018, the orchestra said.”
  
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• Bedwyr Williams's futuristic city stands out on Artes Mundi prize shortlist

  21-10-2016 14:46
  
  War, globalisation, the environment and migration are among the issues explored by the six international artists on this years Artes Mundi prize shortlist, which opens to the public today (until 26 February 2017) in Cardiff, the capital of Wales.The six artists are John Akomfrah (UK), Nel Beloufa (France/Algeria), Amy Franceschini (US) with the Futurefarmers collective, Lamia Joreige (Lebanon), Nstio Mosquito (Angola) and Bedwyr Williams (UK). The German film-maker Hito Steyerl, whose work Fact
  
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• Morning Links: 27,780 Pounds of Concrete Edition

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• Pittsburgh Symphony Management And Musicians Agree On About As Much As Trump And Clinton

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  “Most of those disagreements have to do with the future: how much money the musicians, who have been on strike since Sept. 30, will make; how their retirements will be funded; and what the organization’s five-year financial forecast should look like. But … the two sides also differ over basic matters that have already taken place, such as whether the musicians were notified about the latest concert cancellations before management announced them to the public, and whether the m
  
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• “I’m Full Of Adrenaline So I’m Great, But In One Hour, I’m Going To Drop”: Talking To A New ABT Principal Minutes After His Debut

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  “After the final curtain on Wednesday, still drenched in sweat, feet red and raw, [Alban] Lendorf sat down in his dressing room to talk about his first night as a full member of the company. Below are edited excerpts from that conversation.”
  
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• Aroma Artist Wins $100K Hugo Boss Prize

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  “Known for her collaborations with biologists and pungent Petri dish works, [Anicka] Yi exhibits smell as sculpture. ‘It isn’t unusual to smell a work by Yi before seeing it stewing in a corner or leaking down a wall,’ Beau Rutland wrote in the January 2013 issue of Artforum. ‘Scent becomes an interception, a piling-up of unexpected triggers, awakening sensations often ignored in aesthetic spaces.'”
  
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• As Tensions Between India And Pakistan Ratchet Up, Bollywood Becomes A Battleground

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  “Pakistan on Wednesday imposed a blanket ban on Indian shows on its television networks and radio stations, a day after one of India’s top film directors vowed not to hire actors from Pakistan in response to a major Indian cinema group’s declaration that it would not screen films with Pakistani casts. The tit-for-tat measures come amid deteriorating relations between the two countries after an attack in September on an Indian Army base by militants who India says were from Paki
  
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• How Can The State Dept. Get Russians To Like Americans Better? Broadway Musicals

  21-10-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When Russians were asked [in a survey] what they liked about Americans, they answered, in essence, ‘Not much.’ But when asked what Americans do well, oddly, one of the top answers was ‘musicals.’ (Russians obviously missed Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.) So America’s diplomats looked stageward for help and discovered Broadway Dreams, a decade-old nonprofit that runs week-long master-class programs throughout the United States and internationally.”
  
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• Waking the gods: how the classical world cast its spell over British art

  21-10-2016 13:00
  
  Dod Procter’s painting of a girl on the brink of waking echoes an ancient statue of Ariadne – and is just one example of a postwar revival in classical imagery. Why did antique references mean so much to shellshocked Britain?Of all the antique sculptures that were rediscovered in the Renaissance, and which infused and possessed the imaginations of later generations of artists, it is hard to think of one more powerful than the statue of the sleeping Ariadne in the Pio Clementino museu
  
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• Tala Madani’s Front Projection: an anally fixated work of art

  21-10-2016 13:00
  
  The Iranian artist’s new work’s origins lie in base matter and its more sophisticated manifestationsIn Tala Madani’s painting, a cartoonish naked man stands with his back to us. Before him is a black void, illuminated by the glowing outline of prancing deer. Depicted in the red and green of cheap 3D glasses, they hang in the air like neon cave art. Continue reading...
  
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• The Art Market: Antiquity trade under pressure

  21-10-2016 12:01
  New burden of proof for dealers; problematic goddess; more Old Master tests
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.20.16

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  The future of classical music
  I’m often asked what I think the future of classical music will be. Here’s a summary of what I think. It’s been sitting quietly in the Resources section of my blog, but it’s time to give it some bigger play. … read more
  AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-10-20Reshuffling the Deck: An Illustrated Companion to My WSJ Piece on National Gallery Reinstallations
  Although my Wall Street Journal piece, “A Capital Overhaul at the Nat
  
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• Is the curator who resigned in St Louis heading to Miami Beach?

  21-10-2016 11:52
  
  Jeffrey Uslip, who resigned as chief curator of the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis (CAM) this month, has been offered a job at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach, according to sources close to the institution. It is unclear, however, if he will take up the position as some Bass board members have strongly opposed his move to the museum.
   
  Many have wondered where Uslip, who was also CAMs deputy director for exhibitions and programmes, would go next after the St Louis museum announced on 10 O
  
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• Hisham Matar returns to Libya

  21-10-2016 11:22
  The exiled writer reflects on his first trip back, alongside his photographer wife Diana Matar
  
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• Berlin's KW Contemporary Art Institute gets a revamp

  21-10-2016 10:00
  
  The Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (KW), which organises the Berlin Biennale, has closed its doors until January to allow for a restructure and refurbishment under the leadership of its new director, Krist Gruijthuijsen. The building in Berlins Mitte district shut in September, after this years Biennale, although its Caf Bravo remains open.
  A key element of the restructuring is establishing greater autonomy for both the institution and the biennial, which is directed
  
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• Resolutely fabulous: drag superstars – in pictures

  21-10-2016 08:00
  
  For Anna Rexia drag elevates queer art, while for Le Gateaux Chocolat it is a freedom from mask-wearing. Magnus Hastings photographed the world’s greatest cross-dressers and asked each of them a simple question: why drag? Continue reading...
  
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