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• ‘Tastemakers & Earthshakers’ at Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, California

  02-11-2016 23:02 via artnews.com
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• Impossible to ignore: joint gallery show in New York focuses on Carolee Schneeman’s lesser-known works

  02-11-2016 22:37
  
  A joint exhibition at PPOW and Galerie Lelong in New York aims to show a side of the artist Carolee Schneeman beyond her Meat Joy (1964) daysthe work in which the artist and other performers danced while rubbing cuts of meet around their bodies, now part of the Museum of Modern Arts permanent collection. Further EvidenceExhibit A and B (until 3 December) features a series of lesser-known mixed-media works from the 1980s and 90s that were simply ignored, Schneeman tells The Art Newspaper.
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• Impossible to ignore: joint gallery show in New York focuses on Carolee Schneemann’s lesser-known works

  02-11-2016 22:37
  
  A joint exhibition at PPOW and Galerie Lelong in New York aims to show a side of the artist Carolee Schneemann beyond her Meat Joy (1964) daysthe work in which the artist and other performers danced while rubbing cuts of meet around their bodies, now part of the Museum of Modern Arts permanent collection. Further EvidenceExhibit A and B (until 3 December) features a series of lesser-known mixed-media works from the 1980s and 90s that were simply ignored, Schneemann tells The Art Newsp
  
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• ‘Tonight We’re Honoring the King of Curators’: RoseLee Goldberg Toasts Okwui Enwezor at Performa Gala

  02-11-2016 22:09 via artnews.com
  I guess it’s to be expected that at the benefit gala for Performa, the performance art biennale founded by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004, you can be having a chat with the artistic director of the last Venice Biennale when, suddenly, a performance … Read More
  
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• Study: Male Creativity Is Different From Female Creativity. Here’s How

  02-11-2016 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The results suggest men are more likely to produce radical breakthroughs, but women are more likely to be highly creative in a different but equally important realm. As one writer puts it, “adaptive creativity is incremental in nature and tends to work within existing structures or processes. Adaptive creativity is focused on process improvement or unique strategies to carry out a routine objective.”
  
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• Carol Bove and Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler Tapped for 2017 Swiss Pavilion in Venice

  02-11-2016 22:01 via artnews.com
  Back in March, it was announced that curator Philipp Kaiser would helm the Swiss Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale. But, painfully, no information was released about the artists that would make the actual work for the show. Now Swiss Arts … Read More
  
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• Sprüth Magers to reopen in its former London space

  02-11-2016 22:00
  
  The German art dealers Monika Sprth and Philomene Magers are to reopen in their former home on Grafton Street in Londons Mayfair next year. As their lease was coming to an end, the pair held their last show in the groundfloor gallery in April. They had been due to move to a townhouse at 29 Sackville Street, just metres from Savile Row.
  However, the dealers were recently given the opportunity to take the lease for the entire 18th-century building on Grafton Street. This is the perfect scenario f
  
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• Sex sells: Paris’s Musée de l’Érotisme collection hits the auction block

  02-11-2016 22:00
  
  After nearly two decades of titillating tourists in Pigalle, Pariss famed red light district, the Muse de lrotisme closed in October. The core of its collection of paintings, photographs, peep shows, sex toys and other erotic antiques and curios will be sold on 6 November by the auction house Cornette de St Cyr, with estimated prices for the 700 lots ranging from 20 to 10,000.Many of the objects from the collection focus on fin-de-sicle and jazz-age naughtiness in the shadier salons of the City
  
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• Many strategies for survival: Barbara Rose on painting after Postmodernism

  02-11-2016 22:00
  
  The below excerpt is taken from the art critic and historian Barbara Rose's catalogue essay for Painting After Postmodernism, an exhibition of 16 American and Belgian paintersincluding Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Poons, Werner Mannaers and Joris Ghekierewho Rose sees as making a serious case for the continued relevance of painting in our digital age. The exhibition is on through 16 November at Vanderborght and Cinma Galeries/the Underground in Brussels.This exhibition intends to prove that pain
  
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• Lake Eyre from the air – in pictures

  02-11-2016 21:05
  
  These stunning aerial photos capture the extraordinary colours and painterly flows of Kati Thanda – aka Lake Eyre – in central Australia. The images by Adam Williams, Luke Austin, Ignacio Palacios and Paul Hoelen of the Light Collective depict a remote and pristine landscape few will ever see. They were taken for a new book and exhibition, which opens on Thursday at the Depot Gallery in SydneyContinue reading...
  
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• Perth festival to transform Kings Park into high-tech light and sound show

  02-11-2016 20:40
  
  Walk-through event to be centrepiece of festival that also includes a Vietnamese circus, Russian theatre and the Brodsky Quartet from BritainOne of the world’s largest inner-city parks, Perth’s Kings Park, will be transformed into a cathedral of light, sound and storytelling, in the immersive, high-tech and free centrepiece of Perth festival 2017.With an international outlook and a focus on the senses and immersive experiences, the festival program also includes an acclaimed three-co
  
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• Historians As Policy Advisors? Here’s Why That Isn’t A Good Idea

  02-11-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “History reveals the enormous variety and variability of human institutions and behaviour, setting clear limits on the validity and plausibility of any universalising generalisations. The problem for any would-be applied historian lies in converting this necessary corrective of over-confident social-scientific assertions or politicians’ simplistic assumptions – the historian’s reflex ‘actually, it’s rather more complicated than that’ – into anythin
  
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• Why there's no such thing as an iconic image

  02-11-2016 20:26
  
  His image of a man blocking tanks in Tiananmen Square captivated the world. But the Magnum photographer now believes the ‘iconic’ image is deadA ripped Che Guevara poster in fluorescent pink and turquoise was my first contact with a so-called “iconic image”. Later came Tiananmen Square: the picture of a man blocking the path of a column of tanks in China, in 1989. I’ve mulled over both recently in connection with the label “iconic”. Of course, growing up
  
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• Why Dictionaries Are A Form Of Perfection

  02-11-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Maybe the most reassuring thing about a dictionary is its finite nature. A small dictionary contains all the words you need to know, and a really big one seems to contain all the words in existence. Having one nearby seems to say that the language has boundaries, and reasonable ones at that. It might surprise dictionary-owners to know that most lexicographers do not think of their subject in this way at all.”
  
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• Candice Breitz and Mohau Modisakeng Will Represent South Africa at the 2017 Venice Biennale

  02-11-2016 19:36 via artnews.com
  The South African Department of Arts and Culture has announced that Candice Breitz and Mohau Modisakeng will represent South Africa at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Connect Channel, a South African television production company, will oversee the pavilion. Lucy MacGarry will … Read More
  
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• A Foundation Funding A Critic At A Major Paper? Here’s An Ex-Globe Editor’s Perspective

  02-11-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Diligent Globe editors from the top of the masthead down have committed to find ways in which to perpetuate and preserve arts coverage in some serious, rigorous form, while also endeavoring to protect the institution’s larger mission, preserve jobs, and find novel solutions to emerging problems. This Rubin association certainly fits that last category.”
  
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• Scottish painting Monarch of the Glen could end up abroad

  02-11-2016 17:43
  
  Sir Edwin Landseer’s iconic artwork, being sold by drinks firm Diageo, is expected to attract international interest at auctionOne of Scotland’s most recognised and reproduced paintings, Sir Edwin Landseer’s The Monarch of the Glen, is to appear at auction with a real possibility of it being sold abroad.The Englishman’s depiction of an enormous stag in a misty Highlands landscape is being sold by Diageo, the multinational drinks company. The painting came into the firm&rs
  
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• Paul Kasmin Gallery Now Reps Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s Krasner Holdings

  02-11-2016 17:10 via artnews.com
  The Pollock-Krasner Foundation announced today that Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York now represents Lee Krasner, the Abstract Expressionist painter whose work has seen a renewed interest in recent years. Paul Kasmin is already preparing its first Krasner show for … Read More
  
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• Mahwish Chishty, Imperial War Museum, London

  02-11-2016 17:01
  Military drones meet colourful folk art in the Pakistani-American artist’s works
  
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• Picasso's brown period: was he the first to make art from excrement?

  02-11-2016 16:58
  
  Picasso apparently used his daughter’s faeces in paintings in 1938, predating the likes of Andres Serrano by 50 years. It’s proof there’s no end to his defiant geniusPicasso did everything first. In 1907, he painted the first completely modern work of art, in any field – Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Its equivalents in music and literature, The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky and Ulysses by James Joyce, would not appear until 1913 and 1922 respectively. By then, Pica
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Bono-Level Pretentiousness’ Edition

  02-11-2016 14:03 via artnews.com
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• Relief for Dickens museum as experts say portrait of writer's wife is genuine

  02-11-2016 13:41
  
  Tests show that painting by Irish artist Daniel Maclise is almost entirely hidden under later overpaintingThe good news for the Charles Dickens museum in London is that it does own an original portrait of the writer’s unfortunate wife, Catherine, by an important Victorian artist. The bad news is that it is almost entirely hidden under later overpainting.Doubts about the authenticity of the portrait emerged in the past year. It was considered the better of only two paintings of Catherine in
  
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• Pulping fiction: will art benefit from trashing copies of Fifty Shades?

  02-11-2016 12:38
  
  A new theatre project is asking for copies of EL James’s novel to build a set, as it seeks to metaphorically cut up her language. I’m not sure how great an idea this is
  The Rosemary Branch theatre, a fringe venue in north London, is appealing for copies of Fifty Shades of Grey to build a set for a one-woman show by performance poet Hannah Silva. According to the theatre, Silva’s show Schlock! is a performance about “gender, sexuality and power” that “takes the
  
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• Louvre may safeguard artefacts from war-torn areas

  02-11-2016 11:47
  
  Endangered works of art from war-torn regions may be housed at the Louvres planned new storage facility in Livin near Lens, said Franois Hollande, the President of France, yesterday (1 November).
  Hollande was speaking at the Louvre-Lens where he opened the exhibition History Begins in Mesopotamia (until 23 January 2017). The French mission to safeguard cultural sites in areas of conflict, preventing the pillaging and trafficking of objects, is moving ahead, he said. This show has not come about
  
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• New York's love for the Astor Place cube epitomizes the value of public art

  02-11-2016 11:00
  
  The 1,800lb steel artwork created by artist Tony Rosenthal was returned to the East Village Tuesday after disappearing in 2014, and New Yorkers rejoicedA lot of people missed the spinning Astor Place cube sculpture, which was removed from New York’s East Village in October 2014 and was finally reinstated on Tuesday. Alex Quick, who dressed up as the artwork for Halloween last year, knows that from experience.Dressed in a bulky cardboard costume, Quick stood in the Astor Place plaza for hou
  
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• Abbey life: inside Britain's Benedictine monasteries – in pictures

  02-11-2016 08:00
  
  Ashley Bourne’s photo series Benedict’s House captures the serene beauty and contemplation of Catholic abbeys Downside and Buckfast Continue reading...
  
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• Sobey Art Award, a Canadian Contemporary Art Prize, Goes to Jeremy Shaw

  02-11-2016 00:30 via artnews.com
  Today, Canada’s Sobey Art Award announced that it would give its annual honor—which comes with a purse of $50,000 CAD (about $38,200)—to Jeremy Shaw, an artist who represented the Yukon region on the location-based shortlist that was announced last June. He … Read More
  
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