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• Toronto Artists Being Pushed Out By Soaring Rents

  25-10-2016 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “According to commercial real estate statistics provided by the Toronto Real Estate Board, commercial space in the city’s west end has increased on average from $15.89 per square foot (annually) for spaces under 1,000 square feet in 2006 to $26.44 in the third quarter of this year.”
  
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• Daniel Rios Rodriguez at Lulu, Mexico City

  25-10-2016 23:49 via artnews.com
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• Paul Beatty Is First American To Win Man Booker Prize

  25-10-2016 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 54-year-old Los Angeles-born writer won for The Sellout, a laugh-out-loud novel whose main character wants to assert his African American identity by, outrageously and transgressively, bringing back slavery and segregation.”
  
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• Will AT&T’s Deal For Time Warner Kick Off A New Round Of Media Consolidation?

  25-10-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Analysts were split on whether AT&T’s move would spur other companies to combine. Several attributed AT&T’s play as a way to position itself as a more robust competitor to Google and Facebook, which capture the lion’s share of online advertising, and Amazon and Apple, which have strong customer relations.”
  
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• Villa Flora collection finds new home at Kunstmuseum Bern

  25-10-2016 23:00
  
  The collection of the Villa Flora in Winterthur, Switzerland, which closed its doors in 2014, has found a new home. Around 100 works by Van Gogh, Matisse, Rodin, Manet, Czanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Hodler and Giacometti, assembled by the private collectors Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser-Bhler from 1906 to 1936, has been lent to the Kunstmuseum Bern for the next 15 years.Several of the museums galleries will be re-configured to present their Post-Impressionist, Nabi and Fauve art holdings, now o
  
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• The Russian avant-garde hits the big screen

  25-10-2016 23:00
  Revolution: New Art for a New World is a new feature documentary that uses the collections of major Russian museumssuch as the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the State Tretyakov Gallery  in Moscow to tell the story of the Russian avant-garde. The film, which is directed by Margy Kinmonth and due to be released on 11 November in the UK, tells the story of artists such as Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich. It also includes the British actors Tom Hollander, as t
  
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• How the Townley Venus's thumb was knocked off at the British Museum

  25-10-2016 23:00
  
  The Townley Venus, one of the British Museums most important Roman sculptures, was damaged when its thumb was knocked off as catering staff were setting up for an evening event last December. Although the British Museums trustees were informed about the damage, the news was not released to the press or put into the public domain.
  The Townley Venus is a Roman copy of a fourth-century BC Greek sculpture of the half-draped, goddess of love. The London museums marble copy, just over two metres tall
  
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• Artist retreat expands with new Mexico City space

  25-10-2016 23:00
  
  Casa Wabi, a residency programme in a remote coastal region of Oaxaca, Mexico, expanded in September, with the opening of an exhibition space in Mexico City. This will focus on the work of young artists based in the Mexican capital, but the opening show features some of the work produced at the residency over the past two years.Casa Wabi was founded in 2014 by the Mexican-born, New York-based artist Bosco Sodi. He hired the Japanese architect Tadeo Ando to design a building with living and stud
  
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• Cities Fight Over Proposed Iconic Gehry Building Plans For Hollywood

  25-10-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since renderings were unveiled last year, the discussion has turned away from Gehry’s daring architecture to whether the 334,000-square-foot development is simply too large for the famed boulevard. The main tower, at 15 stories, would be the tallest building to be erected on the Sunset Strip in more than 30 years.”
  
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• Madeline Thien Wins This Year’s Governor General’s Prize For Writing

  25-10-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Thien, a 42-year-old Montreal writer, has been awarded this year’s English-language fiction prize for her breakout novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing. The prize, which celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, counts many of the giants of CanLit among its previous winners: Hugh MacLennan, Gabrielle Roy, Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Robertson Davies, Timothy Findley, Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Rohinton Mistry, Michael Ondaatje.”
  
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• Novel Claim: The 1980s Was A Golden Age For TV

  25-10-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The ’80s bridged the gap between the medium’s tumultuous birth — when it seemed as if it couldn’t decide whether to be vaudeville, legitimate theater, radio with pictures, or free-form video art — and its Peak TV maturation, a period of increased artistic sophistication and overwhelming quantity, literary pretensions, and cinematic effects.”
  
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• Derrick Adams Wins Studio Museum’s 2016 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize

  25-10-2016 20:57 via artnews.com
  The Studio Museum in Harlem announced that it has awarded its Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize to New York–based artist Derrick Adams. The prize comes with an award of $50,000 in cash.Adams’s work ranges from photography, works on paper, and … Read More
  
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• Curtis Institute Fires Its Board Of Overseers

  25-10-2016 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Deeply disappointed” is the way overseers chairman Lowell J. Noteboom characterized his reaction in an email to other overseers. “I believe the discontinuance of the overseers is a significant loss to Curtis and that the administrative burden could have been managed in ways that would not have required such drastic action. That said, there seemed to be no will to craft a different solution,” he wrote.
  
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• Carlos Acosta’s Experimental New Hybrid Dance Company

  25-10-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I think sometimes dance is very segregated,” Acosta said at the UK launch of his new company. “This is an experiment; not many people have done it before. When you create half the company from ballet and half from contemporary it creates an energy, it could be a bomb … it is like two different animals.”
  
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• A Brief History Of The Ouija Board

  25-10-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Boomers will remember the board as either a popular sort-of-board-game or the means by which the demon possessed Regan in The Exorcist. But its history goes all the way back to 19th-century Spiritualism; it was condemned by a Pope and denounced by a professor as “a serious national menace.”
  
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• Paul Nash review – pain, wonder and inescapable menace

  25-10-2016 19:58
  
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  Whether he’s painting the peaceful English countryside or the wartime trenches, the artist usually has something up his sleeve – and it’s not always pleasant Related: Paul Nash: the artist in words and pictures With worlds under huge moons, Oxfordshire hilltops and Berkshire downs, autumn woods and mackerel skies, Paul Nash was almost a neoromantic painter of a small, domesticated island. Willows thrashing in a gale over a secluded pond; the empty coast at
  
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• The Armory Show’s VIP Lounge Will Offer ‘Bespoke Culinary Offerings’ and ‘Sun-Drenched Views’ in 2017

  25-10-2016 19:33 via artnews.com
  Each day brings us closer to March 1, 2017, when the Armory Show opens its doors on Piers 92 and 94, unveiling to New Yorkers the first fair in the era of director Benjamin Gennochio, who was hired a few months … Read More
  
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• Living Memory: Tino Sehgal Takes Over Paris’s Palais de Tokyo With 300 Performers, and a Few Friends

  25-10-2016 19:05 via artnews.com
  Passing through a curtain of shimmering, transparent beads, you enter a vast, bare white space with people milling about. Suddenly a young girl walks up to you, gazes into your eyes and leads you into a long, empty gallery. “What … Read More
  
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• ‘Don Giovanni,’ Don Trump, And Rape Culture

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  “In the end the [opera’s] message is that even a rich charismatic guy can not get away with predatory behavior, groping, serial rape, and, I’m sure, the occasional pussy-grab. The Don ends up dragged to hell.”
  
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• Holding Onto Form and Passion: Agnes Martin’s Guggenheim Retrospective Reveals How Her Self-Incarceration Produced a Visual Utopia

  25-10-2016 18:34 via artnews.com
  What’s in a name? Quite a bit if the name is Agnes Martin. Agnes is a martyr, a virgin saint, the patron of girls and gardeners. And both martyrdom and gardening come right to the point of Martin’s art.Her career … Read More
  
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• Buckminster Fuller Believed Technology Is Mankind’s Salvation (Ah, It Was A Gentler Time, Then)

  25-10-2016 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Fuller put his faith in technology as a means to tame the messiness of humankind. ‘I would never try to reform man – that’s much too difficult,’ Fuller told The New Yorker in 1966. Appealing to people to remedy their behaviour was a folly, because they’d simply never do it. Far wiser, Fuller thought, to build technology that circumvents the flaws in human behaviour – that is, ‘to modify the environment in such a way as to get man moving in preferr
  
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• How Police Pressure Shaped The Ways Hollywood Depicts Law Enforcement In America

  25-10-2016 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is not a straightforward story about how police departments are bad and Hollywood is good, or vice versa. Nor is it a simple morality tale about how creative freedom made it possible for a liberal industry to critique a conservative profession. … But driven by the need for drama and excitement, Hollywood used genres such as action movies and reality shows to glamorize the very ideas about policing that have generated such division in the United States today.”
  
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• James Franco's lubed-up riff on Renaissance art is an embarrassment

  25-10-2016 17:58
  
  Sotheby’s commissioned Franco to respond to its exhibition of Della Robbia glazed terracotta, so he duly covered models in slick gel. It’s just the latest unnecessary stab at making old art coolA new video by “artist” James Franco purports to interpret and modernise the Renaissance art of the Della Robbia family, by pouring transparent gel over models’ understandably grimacing faces. It is not just worthless in itself, but exposes the bankruptcy of the 21st-century
  
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• Aimee Marcereau DeGalan Named Senior Curator at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

  25-10-2016 17:56 via artnews.com
  The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, announced this morning that it has hired Dr. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, the former chief curator at the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio, as its new senior curator of European art, effective … Read More
  
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• Artadia Announces Five Finalists for 2016 Atlanta Awards

  25-10-2016 17:53 via artnews.com
  Today, the national visual arts nonprofit Artadia announced five finalists for its 2016 Atlanta Awards. This is Artadia’s fourth time presenting unrestricted awards to Atlanta artists. Out of the 188 applications received, the finalists are:– Kelly Kristin Jones – T. … Read More
  
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• Wrongfully Accused by Gonsalves Mpili

  25-10-2016 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The court hired me/
  My role of which I know/
  My instincts pushed me into a river/
  A river flowing water mixed with salt but tasted like pepper/
  Is it guilt that I acted like a spokesperson of a conglomerate/
  I spilled  all sorts of data which were forecasted/
  A resignation letter replying my medulla forcing me to type it/
  The opposition rejected my envelope written I’m Out/
  They took seeds and implanted them to the court/
  The court fell for it, I didn’t/
  In support of my own, I
  
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• A Song My Heart Dances To by Gonsalves Mpili

  25-10-2016 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Thought of a genre,Undefined,Who wrote it?I sound a detective to myself,Solving a case with rhetorical questions,Who will sing it?Am I?Who’s going to dance to it’s melodies?Got answers,From a disk jockey,Played all sorts of soul,The last one caught my ears,The last one caught my nose,The last one caught my eyes,The last one caught us,Song title unknown,Sang by us,Danced by two hearts. The post A Song My Heart Dances To by Gonsalves Mpili appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Israel’s Culture Minister Goes To War Against… Culture

  25-10-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Miri Regev has done just about everything she can to alienate and enrage those she considers the elites, or the “cultural junta,” of Israel. Leftists. Secularists. Tel Avivians. Ashkenazim — Jews of European origin. People who, as she told me recently, think that “classical music is better than the Andalusian music” of Morocco, or that “Chekhov is more important than Maimonides.”
  
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• It’s a Two by Gonsalves Mpili

  25-10-2016 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They were playing darts,They all hit the bulls eye,My heart was placed over there,The first thrower reached into my arteries,The second thrower gave me a room to breath.
  When the game was over,I never noticed who won,Since my eyes didn’t know the maths,All of a sudden my heart was empty but on fire,A she rescued me,Brought in a tank full of water,Poured into my heart,My heart never turned to ashes,That isn’t a chemistry class,It’s a two,I call it double impact The post It&rsquo
  
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• Amidst Chaos, Looted Antiquities Are ‘Gushing Out’ Of Libya

  25-10-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One of the hardest-hit areas is the country’s eastern coastal region, which is rich in archaeological treasures from sites such as the ancient Greek and Roman city of Cyrene. International and Libyan specialists say that ‘random digging’ here is proceeding unchecked.”
  
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• Is Casting Screen Stars In Broadway Plays Good For Theater?

  25-10-2016 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alexis Soloski: “Well, that depends on your criteria. Certainly, it brings people in who otherwise might not attend and gives Broadway a welcome shot of the glamour it can sometimes lack, making the lights of the Great White Way glow more brightly. But too often celebrity casting seems a cheap ploy to increase box office totals and keep the publicity machine churning. These actors drum up excitement for new plays and goose otherwise bland-seeming revivals.”
  
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• The Super-High Frame Rate In ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Looks Great – And It’s Still Unwatchable

  25-10-2016 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ang Lee’s latest film “is the first ever to be shot in super-high-resolution 3-D at 120 frames per second. Lee knew its novel look—unrelenting clarity, abundant blooms of fine detail – might come off as more disturbing than impressive. ‘This is not just a new technology, but a new habit in watching movies,’ he warned the crowd. ‘I hope you keep an open mind.’ This was, perhaps, too much to ask.” Daniel Engber explains why.
  
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• Rarely-Seen, Never-Sold Clyfford Still Painting Coming To Market

  25-10-2016 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Estimated to make between $12m-$18m, the untitled painting from 1948-49 was acquired from the artist by the painter Edward Dugmore, his student at the California School of Fine Arts, and also passed through the hands of the Texas collector Edward Kitchen, before entering an East Coast collection about 20 years ago.”
  
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• Is a Royal Academy retrospective on the cards for Marina?

  25-10-2016 15:32
  
  Rumours abound that the queen of endurance Marina Abramovic will get a retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London. According to the Guardian, the blockbuster show is planned for 2020. A Royal Academy spokeswoman says that the RA is involved in conversations with Marina Abramovic and will announce further information in due course. Earlier this year, the grande dame of performance told us that she hopes to premiere her video tribute to the opera singer Maria Callas, Seven
  
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• Syrian artist Marwan dies aged 82

  25-10-2016 15:24
  The Syrian artist Marwan Kassab-Bachi died on 23 October, aged 82. Marwan, as he is best known, was famous for his figurative oil paintings, particularly focusing on the human face. Marwan moved to Germany in 1957, where he remained until his death, and his work was heavily influenced by the memories of his home country as well as the European painting styles in which he was trained. Marwan has been instrumental in bridging the art worlds of the Middle East and Europe, says Sultan Sooud Al
  
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• Berlin-based Syrian artist Marwan dies aged 82

  25-10-2016 15:24
  The Syrian artist Marwan Kassab-Bachi died on 23 October, aged 82. Marwan, as he is best known, was famous for his figurative oil paintings, particularly focusing on the human face. Marwan moved to Germany in 1957, where he remained until his death, and his work was heavily influenced by the memories of his home country as well as the European painting styles in which he was trained. Marwan has been instrumental in bridging the art worlds of the Middle East and Europe, says Sultan Sooud Al
  
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• Board Of Shakespeare’s Globe Decides To Jettison Controversial New Artistic Director

  25-10-2016 15:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Shakespeare’s Globe artistic director Emma Rice is to leave the theatre in 2018 after its board decided her methods are not authentic enough. Rice took charge of the London theatre in January but has come in for fierce criticism, including for her use of sound and lighting technology.”
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for Art Basel Hong Kong 2017

  25-10-2016 15:13 via artnews.com
  It may still be October, but here we are, talking about a fair that takes place halfway around the world from New York, all the way out in the tail end of March—that’s right, Art Basel Hong Kong 2017 now … Read More
  
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• Texas Couple Gives $380M Art Collection To Musée d’Orsay In Paris

  25-10-2016 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marlene and Spencer Hays’s collection of roughly 600 works from late-19th- and early-20th-century France includes works by, among others, Matisse, Modigliani, Bonnard, and Degas.
  
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• Morning Links: Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné Lawsuit Edition

  25-10-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Columbus, Ohio Is Seeing A Mini-Boom In Small Dance Companies

  25-10-2016 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Movement Afoot is just one of several startup dance ensembles to emerge in the past five years in central Ohio. The groups – also including Oyo Dance Company (contemporary), New Vision Dance Co. (jazz), and Columbus Modern Dance Company and Columbus Moving Company (modern) – represent a variety of styles. Most have fewer than 10 dancers. Given the popularity of Columbus’ primary companies – BalletMet and Columbus Dance Theatre – the proliferation of ensembles
  
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• The Enemy Within At MoMA: Dust

  25-10-2016 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over two years, [Nina] Katchadourian interviewed staff members across every department, ultimately realizing that they were united by their stance against this pervasive, invisible-until-it’s-not element.” Then she created a new audio guide: “Wall texts encourage visitors to listen in at a dozen locations throughout the museum, including a tough-to-Swiffer ledge overhanging four stories of the museum’s atrium.”
  
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• Poet Lucia Perillo Dead At 58

  25-10-2016 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Known for her sense of humor and her writing about living with multiple sclerosis, … she received a MacArthur ‘Genius’ fellowship [in 2000] … {and] was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her collection Inseminating the Elephant.”
  
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• Bill Murray Accepts The Mark Twain Prize

  25-10-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘My theme tonight is what is it like to be beloved,’ a straight-faced Murray told the crowd at the end of the two-hour salute. ‘It’s hard to listen to all those people be nice to you. You just get so suspicious.'”
  
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• Artist Tino Sehgal Returns To His Ballet Roots – Sort Of

  25-10-2016 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In his early years, Sehgal” – now famous for his “constructed situations” – performed for the French choreographer Jérôme Bel, working also with Les Ballets C de la B, a highly conceptual contemporary dance company in Ghent.” Earlier this fall, he created new works for a very un-Sehgalian setting: the Paris Opera Ballet at the stupefyingly lavish Palais Garnier.
  
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• Australia’s Opera Companies Should Get Extra $24M In Funding (And One Of Them Gets An Ultimatum): Government Report

  25-10-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Australia’s four major opera companies should receive more than $24m in extra federal funding over four years, according to recommendations from the long-awaited National Opera Review. Along with the proposal for extra funding, the review also recommended that one of the companies, Opera Queensland, be given three years to sort its finances out or lose its status as a Major Performing Arts (MPA) company, which secures it government funding.”
  
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• Luc Tuymans’s Ensor show at the Royal Academy plays the Trump card

  25-10-2016 12:43
  
  An unexpected object sits in the first room of the exhibition Intrigue: James Ensor by Luc Tuymans, opening at Londons Royal Academy of Arts on 29 October (until 29 January 2017). The Belgian painter Tuymans, who organised the show, has placed a hat featuring a mushroom-cloud of ostrich plumes on a low plinth. This extravagant headdress is of the sort worn by Gilles, the clown-like figures who also don masks and throw oranges at the annual carnival in the Belgian town of Binche. Elsewhere in th
  
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• French film star Alain Delon puts 12 Rembrandt Bugatti pieces up for auction

  25-10-2016 11:00
  
  Twelve works by the sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti drawn from the collection of the French film star Alain Delon will go under the hammer at Christies Paris on 22 November.The dedicated 17-lot sale marks the 100th anniversary of the death of the Italian artist known for his bronze sculptures of wildlife. Bugatti spent hours at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris studying animal behavior.Delon has consigned a 1913 bronze piece Deux grands lopards (est 500,000-700,000) as well as Elphant dAfrique et troi
  
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• London Gallery Sues Authentication Committee Over Agnes Martin: Decision Rendered Paintings “Worthless”

  25-10-2016 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mayor Gallery says that the authentication committee acted wrongly when it rejected 13 works submitted to it by the gallery’s clients. Neither Sotheby’s nor Christie’s will accept a work by Martin for auction or private sale unless it has been or will be included in the catalogue raisonné, the complaint says, so “a refusal by defendants to include an artwork [is] recognised in the worldwide marketplace as a conclusive statement that the artwork is a fake”, re
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.24.16

  25-10-2016 10:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Is a Climax Not One?
  The Yasmeen Godder Company from Israel mingles performers and spectators. … read more
  AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-10-24Nobel Thoughts
  Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, and discussions ensued: why him?  These discussions are understandable and mostly reasonable, and they are good discussions to have.  But at the same time, it’s … read more
  AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2016-10-24Tom Hayden: Gone But Not Forgott
  
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