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• Flame at Park View, Los Angeles

  24-10-2016 23:52 via artnews.com
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• Sculpture by the Sea artworks destroyed as huge swell batters beach

  24-10-2016 23:21
  
  Organisers had moved some of the works further up the sand, but did not expect the ferocity of the conditions that unfoldedTwo artworks have been destroyed and another three damaged by a storm surge that hammered Sydney’s Sculpture by the Sea trail, the world’s largest annual sculpture exhibition.Some artworks were dragged along the sand and into the water during wild weather between Bondi and Tamarama beaches on Monday, less than a week after the opening of the popular exhibition. R
  
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• Sculpture by the Sea artwork destroyed as huge swell batters beach

  24-10-2016 23:21
  
  Organisers had moved some of the works further up the sand – but didn’t expect the ferocity of the conditions that unfoldedOne artwork has been destroyed and two others damaged after a high tide and huge swell battered Sydney’s Sculpture by the Sea trail.Some sculptures were dragged along the sand and into the water when the tide swept Tamarama beach on Monday afternoon.Related: Sculpture by the Sea: sun, surf and art – in picturesContinue reading...
  
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• How The UK’s Video Game Industry Demonstrated Its Impact To Policy-Makers

  24-10-2016 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For many, feeling forced to demonstrate evidence of the impact of something as personal as art can be more than unsettling. Concerns that any attempt to measure impacts may not sufficiently capture the work’s full effects is understandable. But with art there is always an impact.”
  
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• Restorers use Japanese algae and sturgeon glue to treat Futurist work

  24-10-2016 23:00
  
  Automobile Speed + Light + Noise (around 1913), a painting by the Italian Futurist Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), is due to go back on display at the Kunsthaus Zurich in Switzerland in November following a six-month stint in the museums restoration studio.
  The black-and-white composition had to be taken off display earlier in 2016 over concerns about its condition. According to the Kunsthauss restorer Viola Mckel, the paint was lifting from the canvas and tiny areas had fallen off. All of the areas
  
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• Rauschenberg goat is given a rare outing

  24-10-2016 23:00
  
  One of Robert Rauschenbergs most recognisable works, a stuffed angora goat with a painted face and a rubber tyre around its middle, will take centre stage at Tate Moderns survey of the late US artists work (1 December-2 April 2017). Rarely lent, the work, Monogram (1955-59), will then go to New Yorks Museum of Modern Art before heading to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
  Monogram is a star attraction at Stockholms Moderna Museet and rarely travels because of its fragility; it was reporte
  
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• Parisian art dealer Emmanuel Perrotin to launch gallery in Tokyo

  24-10-2016 23:00
  
  The Parisian art dealer Emmanuel Perrotin is adding to his burgeoning fleet of galleries with the opening of a gallery in Tokyo next spring. The 130 sq. m space, in the heart of the citys Roppongi district, is being redesigned by the Hong Kong architect Andr Fu.
   
  Having helped forge the successful careers of several Asian artists over the past 25 years, Perrotin has recently been expanding in the region, opening spaces in Hong Kong in 2012 and Seoul earlier this year. He met the Japanese
  
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• London’s market for Islamic art stays strong

  24-10-2016 23:00
  
  Provenance continues to be one of the main challenges affecting the market for Islamic art. To sell a work, an auction house now needs properly documented, rather than simply reasonable, proof of exit from its country of origin prior to a threshold year that has been set out in legislation. This is designed to prevent illicit trade and looting.
  While adherence to the act is welcome, the new government of Egypt has been challenging sales wildly over the past 18 months, allegedly even claiming th
  
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• Bottoms up! Contemporary art centre opens inside Berlin brewery

  24-10-2016 23:00
  
  In Berlin, no gallery opening is complete without an endless supply of German beer. So it seemed only a matter of time before an institution went straight to the source and opened inside a brewery.
  The Kindl Centre for Contemporary Art, housed in the former Kindl brewery, has open fully after a four-year restoration. Located in Berlins trendy Neuklln district, the 5,500-sq.-m art complex has been unveiled to the public in stages since the Swiss-German collector couple Burkhard Varnholt and Salo
  
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• Bottoms up! Contemporary art centre opens fully inside Berlin brewery

  24-10-2016 23:00
  
  In Berlin, no gallery opening is complete without an endless supply of German beer. So it seemed only a matter of time before an institution went straight to the source and opened inside a brewery.
  The Kindl Centre for Contemporary Art, housed in the former Kindl brewery, has open fully after a four-year restoration. Located in Berlins trendy Neuklln district, the 5,500-sq.-m art complex has been unveiled to the public in stages since the Swiss-German collector couple Burkhard Varnholt and Salo
  
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• With a Twinkle in the Skies: Victoria Burge’s Prints Transform the Print Center Into a Planetarium

  24-10-2016 22:41 via artnews.com
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• Report: Fear Is The Biggest Barrier To Diversity In the Arts

  24-10-2016 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The third and final report on the survey, which was published this week, revealed that the sector is split on whether or not audiences actually resist ‘more diverse artistic product’, but this appears to be enough to put organisations off programming, producing and exhibiting it. Respondents indicated that these fears are compounded by ‘inadequate funding’. One respondent said: “When you are struggling to survive, your priorities and passions focus on playing to the
  
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• Turns Out Our Brains Are Wired To Light Up When We See Something Cute

  24-10-2016 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Cute judgments might be fundamental to human perception. Examining magnetic brain activity in subjects presented with infant and adult faces, Kringelbach and his colleagues at Oxford have found that the brain starts recognising faces as cute or infantile in less than a seventh of a second after the face is presented to subjects. His group has concluded that cuteness is a key that unlocks the brain’s fast attentional resources before also influencing slower brain networks responsible
  
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• Pioneer Works Announces First Alternative Art School Fair

  24-10-2016 20:41 via artnews.com
  Today, Pioneer Works announced the first Alternative Art School Fair, set to take place between November 18-20 at the organization’s Red Hook headquarters. The fair is a fairly comprehensive survey of over 50 experimental schools from 11 countries, and it’s … Read More
  
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• Science Fiction Writers Have Done A Dreadful Job Of Dealing With The Future

  24-10-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Typically, as noted above, science fiction authors posit a united world under benign or tyrannical world government. How our present divided world came to be united in the future is seldom explained. Science fiction authors are notorious for getting out of plot holes by inventing new technologies like “handwavium.” The political equivalent of handwavium is the World Federation of Handwavia.
  
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• Canada Will Be 150 Years Old Next Year And There Will Be Big Celebrations. But What Culture Are We Celebrating?

  24-10-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What effect will all this well-meaning cultural, environmental and athletic activity produce? As the optimistic descriptions washed over me, I had to remind myself that public celebrations of a national birthday can indeed be transformative: just look at centennial year. To author and historian Pierre Berton, it may have been “the last good year,” as he would subtitle his history of 1967 published in 1997, but to those of us who were very young in the Summer of Love, the cente
  
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• Maintaining That Difficult Line Between Fiction And Literature

  24-10-2016 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Judging fiction is easier said than done. Cyril Connolly, formerly of the Observer, once wrote that “the great difficulty in reviewing new novels is to maintain a double standard – one to judge novels as fiction and the other as literature. Luckily, very few novels pretend to be literature, but when they do it is necessary to slate them by one rule and praise them by another.” In recent memory, several Booker panels have given masterclasses in the fine art of making a sow&rsquo
  
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• Why Northern Ireland – and the rest of the world – needs Andres Serrano's Torture pictures

  24-10-2016 19:37
  
  Helpless and naked before the camera, Serrano’s ‘victims’ make it impossible to ignore man’s inhumanity to manThere are two reasons that Northern Ireland is a particularly pungent place for Andres Serrano to show his Torture pictures, currently on view at Void in Derry. One is the violent history of the Troubles. The other is the Christian imagery that haunts the artist.In Serrano’s notorious image Piss Christ, a crucifix is suspended in a tank of orange urine. When
  
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• Hillary Hahn’s Search For Creativity Outside The Box Of Violin-Playing

  24-10-2016 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Working with composers, I was realizing that there was a whole part of the musical creative process that I didn’t have firsthand experience with. So I started kind of entering that realm, from different directions, just to understand a little bit more of how a composer gets to the final point of the piece that they write.”
  
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• This Election Has Seen A Surge In Political Art

  24-10-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Activist street artists have been especially busy creating some of the presidential campaign’s most provocative political statements. Their bold approach inherits a long tradition.
  
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• ICI Names Miguel A. Lopez of TEOR/éTica in Costa Rica Winner of 2016 Independent Vision Curatorial Award

  24-10-2016 18:00 via artnews.com
  Independent Curators International announced today that Miguel A. Lopez, the chief curator of TEOR/éTica in San Jose, Costa Rica, has been named the 2016 winner of its Independent Vision Curatorial Award, which recognizes international curators who have shown early in their … Read More
  
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• Turin's top museum official quits in row with Five Star mayor

  24-10-2016 17:08
  
  Chiara Appendino called for resignation of Patrizia Asproni after city lost ‘blockbuster’ Manet show because sponsor pulled out A top museum official in Turin has resigned after a high-profile spat with the city’s anti-establishment mayor, Chiara Appendino, who has been accused of using a heavy handed political approach to the city’s cultural affairs.The row between Patrizia Asproni and Appendino, who is a rising star in the populist Five Star Movement, erupted last week
  
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• Morning Links: James Franco Slime Video Edition

  24-10-2016 15:06 via artnews.com
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• Best photographs of the day: Buffalo racing and Calais camp

  24-10-2016 14:18
  
  The Guardian picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world, including harvest celebrations in Bali and demolition of migrant/refugee camp in France Continue reading...
  
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• US collectors Marlene and Spencer Hays donate major collection to Musée d’Orsay

  24-10-2016 12:41
  
  The Muse dOrsay has received one of its largest ever donations after the US collectors Marlene and Spencer Hays announced they will give 187 turn-of-the-century masterpieces to the Paris museum. The gift includes works by Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard and Odilon Redon.Audrey Azoulay, the French culture secretary, told France24 TV: This donation, which is exceptional for its size and coherence, is the largest a French museum has received from a foreign donor since 1945. A statement from the F
  
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• Paul Nash Tate Britain exhibition to feature 'lost' surrealist sculpture

  24-10-2016 11:00
  
  Moon Aviary, found stored in pieces in a cardboard box, goes on display with other rarely seen works by the British war artistAn important surrealist sculpture by the artist Paul Nash, lost for more than 70 years, has been rediscovered stored in pieces in a cardboard box, and has now been refurbished and reconstructed for an exhibition of his work opening at Tate Britain this week.The exhibition, the most comprehensive in a generation, emphasises not just Nash’s best-known landscape and wa
  
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• Ashes to pottery: how a designer makes dinnerware from the dead

  24-10-2016 10:00
  
  In New Mexico, Justin Crowe of Chronicle Cremation Designs admits some are uncomfortable with his work – but he says it offers a kind of ‘immortality’ A designer has launched a range of custom ceramic dinnerware glazed with the cremated ashes of dead loved ones. Related: ‘I face so much jealousy’: Marina Abramović talks friends, enemies and fearContinue reading...
  
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• Picasso's paper parade – in pictures

  24-10-2016 08:00
  
  Picasso said printmaking was his way of ‘writing fiction’. His beguiling works – of lovers, matadors and monsters – reveal an often overlooked side of his genius Continue reading...
  
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• Golden opportunity: stolen car + spray paint = Melbourne street art

  24-10-2016 06:50
  
  An abandoned car has been turned into street sculpture after it was left for more than a week where it crashed into a tree in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy North. The vehicle was painted gold by an unknown person or people Continue reading...
  
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• untitled(i made her for them so that they could have a family.)

  24-10-2016 00:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  he saw the yellow paper. the word court stamped on it in red. they are going tosay he was the one who did it. when he wasn’t the one who was in charge. j was in charge. she didn’t tell him about what was going on. the court wants more from him.more than he has to give them. he did nothing to them. they don’t dislike him. j was working with two men and a woman. they did something on the property. there was someone else there. a young woman. she isn’t there anymore. they ca
  
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• This Week’s Top AJ Stories: A Huge Drop In Dance Audiences, MFA Programs

  24-10-2016 00:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Why has dance attendance fallen off a cliff in New York?… Applications for MFA programs are down and things are looking bleak… Has our ad-supported business model for content killed quality?… There’s a big surge in art that addresses political issues… Bob Dylan, and what he means.
  
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