Arts news

• Etel Adnan: interview

  30-10-2016 23:32
  At 91, the artist is experiencing a late surge in demand for her work
  
  Read more

• Step inside Gaudí’s first major creation

  30-10-2016 22:00
  
  In 1882, a young Antoni Gaudnow considered one of Spains greatest architectswas shown a plot of scrubland filled with yellow zinnia flowers in the Grcia district of Barcelona. There, he would build his first major commission: a private home for the stockbroker Manuel Vicens Montaner.That house, completed in 1888, is due to open to the public in late 2017. Casa Vicens is the first Gaud masterpiece, says Mercedes Mora, the executive manager of the 2.5m project. The houses original layout, includi
  
  Read more

• Remembering the ‘mud angels’

  30-10-2016 22:00
  Fifty years ago, on 4 November 1966, Italy was hit by floods, devastating two of its most historic cities: Florence and Venice. This represented the greatest loss of art and architecture from a natural disaster in 20th-century Europe. The international community quickly mobilised assistance, dispatching angeli del fango (mud angels): volunteers who helped in the emergency rescue of works of art. Everyone wanted to go and scrape mud off a Cimabue, recalls Jonathan Keates, now chairman of Venice i
  
  Read more

• Patti Smith’s reading of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis in Reading Prison

  30-10-2016 22:00
  
  Patti Smiths live reading of Oscar Wildes De Profundis in the chapel of Reading Prison was always going to be an extraordinary experience. And what an intense, emotional one it was. Sitting at a simple wooden tableon a low concrete plinth of exactly the same dimensions as the nearby cell where Wilde had spent his two-year incarceration, and presided over by the stark, tombstone-like presence of his original cell doorPatti Smith parted her hair, put on her spectacles and began with a song: a few
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Not just Tut: British Museum to expand collection with work from modern Egypt

  30-10-2016 22:00
  
  Renowned internationally for its ancient Egyptian art and artefacts, the British Museum has announced that it is now creating a collection of more recent work from the country. The Modern Egypt Project will focus on printed materials, textiles, photographs and items of everyday homeware from the 20th and 21st centuries. Part of the collection will go on display in the Egyptian sculpture gallery, close to the Rosetta Stone, from April 2017.
  The British Museum, which holds the largest collection
  
  Read more

• Not just mummies: British Museum to expand collection with work from modern Egypt

  30-10-2016 22:00
  
  Renowned internationally for its ancient Egyptian art and artefacts, the British Museum has announced that it is now creating a collection of more recent work from the country. The Modern Egypt Project will focus on printed materials, textiles, photographs and items of everyday homeware from the 20th and 21st centuries. Part of the collection will go on display in the Egyptian sculpture gallery, close to the Rosetta Stone, from April 2017.
  The British Museum, which holds the largest collection
  
  Read more

• Make art but can’t travel? Yorkshire museum asks artists to email their tech-based works instead

  30-10-2016 22:00
  
  The Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) will hold an exhibition that uses technology to challenge travel restraints on artists. Beyond Boundaries: Art by Email (7-29 January 2017) has invited artists from the Middle East who may find it difficult to enter the UK, often due to political circumstances, to submit proposals for work that can be sent by email. The proposed works include sculptures that can be 3D-printed, performances by instruction, photography, and film and sound works.
  YSP have receive
  
  Read more

• German baker Dr Oetker finds possible Nazi loot in company art collection

  30-10-2016 22:00
  
  Dr Oetker, a family-owned German manufacturer of baking products, muesli and pizza, says it has found four works in the company art collection that may have been looted by the Nazis and has made contact with the heirs of the original Jewish owners to reach a settlement.The corporate collection includes several hundred paintings, silver and porcelain, according to a company statement. Much of it was acquired in the 1950s by Rudolf-August Oetker, who died in 2007. The company assigned a provenanc
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Indigenous Movie Monsters Represent Payback

  30-10-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In a series of fictional movie posters showing at Toronto’s A Space Gallery … Soule (a.k.a. Chippewar) imagines indigenous horror flicks such as Bride of Frankensioux starring Raven Bravehorse and Honey Featherheart or Tribe of Dracula starring Max Thunderbird.”
  
  Read more

• Why Is Everyone (Including The UK And President Obama) Making Fun Of Art History While Venerating Art And Artists?

  30-10-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Where this will lead the art world, art history, the art market and — most important of all — art itself, is anyone’s guess. The formal study of the history of art, with its generally impecunious career prospects, may well remain a niche subject. But the digitalization of art means a lot more people across the world are looking at the stuff.”
  
  Read more

• When An Injury Ends A Dancing Career, A Photographer Of Dancers Is Born

  30-10-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The NYC Dance Project was born — ‘out of love’ — and the couple started posting their images to social media. They would treat each dancer like a celebrity, doing an interview in addition to the photo session.”
  
  Read more

• Will Yet Another Symphony Strike This Fall? Ask Pacific Symphony Musicians

  30-10-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The terms proposed by the orchestra’s management are punitive, Neeley argued. To play the minimum number of guaranteed services in their contract, symphony musicians are required to turn down other jobs when they are “on call” for some services, Neeley said. In other words, they might not be used for certain events but must keep those dates open nonetheless.”
  
  Read more

• Dance Lessons For Writers

  30-10-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Zadie Smith: “What can an art of words take from the art that needs none? Yet I often think I’ve learned as much from watching dancers as I have from reading. Dance lessons for writers: lessons of position, attitude, rhythm and style, some of them obvious, some indirect.”
  
  Read more

• Anger And Confusion In Cairo As Film Fest Abruptly Disinvites A Film (And Filmmaker)

  30-10-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Filmed amid and set before, during, and after the revolution and the ravages of post-Mubarak Egypt, the piece is of intense interest to its local audience, particularly the independent cultural scene of Downtown Cairo, of which El Said is a member.”
  
  Read more

• A Conversation With Toni Morrison About Reality TV And Black Lives Matter (And Everything Else)

  30-10-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Everything’s crashed. It’s like somebody put this great cage of idiocy over the whole country. …I have to deal with it the only way I can. I’m very happy, very enthusiastic, and very focused only on the work and, of course, friends and people.”
  
  Read more

• What Should Britain Do With Its Crumbling Seaside Entertainment Hubs?

  30-10-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Both councils and private operators, faced with falling audiences and government funding cuts, have struggled to resist the lure of developers seeking new retail, leisure and residential opportunities.”
  
  Read more

• How To Have Your Novel Win Over All Of China: Don’t Publish It

  30-10-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Actually, don’t publish it *in print.* Media execs “are mining a once-secluded corner of the internet that has become a booming billion-dollar business: a flourishing online literary world that bypasses ink and paper entirely to grab readers by their smartphones, with subjects like tomb raiding, science fiction, fantasy, romance and martial arts.”
  
  Read more

• A Forced Resignation, Accusations Of Sexual Misconduct – And A Celebrated Writing Program Utterly Derailed In Canada

  30-10-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The scandal – with gaping holes in official information and the resulting speculation and innuendo – has devastated the vaunted writing program, which was established more than 50 years ago by Canadian poet Earle Birney and whose graduates include award-winning authors Lynn Coady, Charlotte Gill and Lee Henderson, as well as Ms. Thien. It has also inflamed Canada’s tight-knit literary community and irrevocably altered many lives.”
  
  Read more

• In St. Paul, A Theatre Known For Its ‘Radical Engagement With The Community’ Will Shutter Its Doors

  30-10-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I feel good about the vision that we have shared with the Twin Cities and nationally for 25 years. … I feel like it has inspired a lot and I feel hopeful that some of the principles of Bedlam—radical community engagement and making theatregoing fun—that those things continue to impact.”
  
  Read more

• The Artists Who Will Live In The Unfinished Museum In Downtown L.A.

  30-10-2016 12:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the piece, Lacy, who is known for her work in performance and social practice, will teach Bowers, an artist whose politically minded practice is rooted firmly in drawing, how to be a performance artist. They will also live in the museum — in a pair of newly painted offices spaces that overlook the lobby.”
  
  Read more

• Yes, Some People *Are* Wired Better For Learning Languages

  30-10-2016 12:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Analysis of the brain scans revealed that differences in improvement of each behaviour were related to pre-existing differences in brain connectivity. In short, the flow of oxygen in the participants’ brains while at rest predicted how much specific aspects of speech or language skills would improve.”
  
  Read more

• Intrigue: James Ensor by Luc Tuymans review – exquisite turbulence

  30-10-2016 09:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  There is far more to Belgian misfit James Ensor than masks and skeletons, as this exemplary show revealsThere is a painting of a skate in this startling exhibition that amounts to nothing less than a portrait. It shows the voluminous fish sprawled flaccidly on a table. The ruffed white body spreads like fancy dress around the head, which is propped up so that the eyes are staring straight at the viewer. The fish wears a tragicomic expression, slightly humiliated, as if caug
  
  Read more

• The Met Cancels An Opera Mid-Performance After A Patron Scatters Powdery Substance Into The Pit

  30-10-2016 05:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The man told other patrons he was there specifically to sprinkle the ashes during the performance, the police said. Mr. Miller said the act may have been a violation of the city’s health code but that there was no criminal intent.”
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUKnews on Twitter!