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• Last Month The Finnish Government Refused Funding For Guggenheim Helsinki. So This Is The New Plan…

  03-11-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Of its $144 million building costs, the City of Helsinki’s investment would cover a maximum of $89 million. The remaining $55 million would be paid by private investments and a loan, the costs of which would be covered by the Guggenheim Helsinki Supporting Foundation. The licensing fee payable to the Guggenheim Foundation has been reduced by $10 million to $20 million and would be entirely financed by private donations, which have been secured.”
  
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• The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch review – breathtaking close-ups

  03-11-2016 22:30
  
  The Noordbrabants museum’s historic Bosch show gets the Exhibition on Screen documentary treatment Related: Hieronymus Bosch review – a heavenly host of delights on the road to hell This year’s groundbreaking Hieronymus Bosch exhibition in the Netherlands is an ideal candidate for the Exhibition on Screen treatment. In the most comprehensive collection of his work ever mounted, the tiny Noordbrabants museum managed to secure 17 of Bosch’s 24 extant paintings and 19 of his
  
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• Jeanette Mundt at the Green Gallery, Milwaukee

  03-11-2016 22:19 via artnews.com
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• Revolution: New Art for a New World review – Russia's creative convulsions stifled

  03-11-2016 22:15
  
  The amazing art of post-Revolutionary Russia deserves to be more widely understood, as does the unhappy fate of some of the country’s most creative people after Stalin stepped in
  The 15 years after the 1917 Russian Revolution produced some of the most exciting art the world had ever seen. Artists found new ways to represent the hopes of the newly free, optimistic country led by Lenin, but after his death they were silenced when Stalin enforced socialist realism as a political tool. Many we
  
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• Report: Diversity On American TV Hits All-Time High In 2016/17

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  The newest installment of the advocacy organization’s “Where We Are on TV” report found that 4.8% of all broadcast series-regular characters expected to appear in the coming season are LGBTQ — the highest percentage in study’s 21-year history. Black characters accounted for 20% of all broadcast series regulars, and characters with disabilities for 1.7% — both also all-time highs. Across broadcast, cable and streaming, the number of transgender series regulars
  
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• The Goldfinch makes a solo flight to Scotland

  03-11-2016 22:00
  Carel Fabritiuss painting The Goldfinch (1654) is leaving the Mauritshuis in The Hague for the Scottish National Gallery (4 November-18 December) on a brief winter migratory, says the Scottish museums senior curator of northern European art, Tico Seifert. On the back of the Scottish gallery lending Titians Venus Anadyomene (around 1520) in 2014, the Mauritshuis was very open to lending a one-off painting in return, Seifert says. As a picture focusing on one bird entirely, without any sort of con
  
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• Shanghai show of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s art offers shared experience but little explanation

  03-11-2016 22:00
  
  An exhibition of the late Cuban-American conceptualist Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Shanghais Rockbund Art Museum (until December 25), which includes more than 40 pieces spanning 1987 to 1995, eschews the heavy-handed explanation that is common in China, offering materials and wall texts that are minimal, vague and even poetic. But it also avoids any mention of the artists homosexuality, and the Aids crisis, both of which informed and are directly referenced in his works.
  The omission was part of a
  
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• Sex dolls and domesticity

  03-11-2016 22:00
  
  Skin Dips, an exhibition of photographs and sculptures by two New York-based artists, Dalia Amara and Florencia Escuerdo (until 12 November), uses anthropomorphism to examine how the female body is represented, scrutinised and objectified. Amaras photographs include a series taken after her wedding last year, which she says show the amplified pressures of how women should look at their wedding and the sacrifices that are made to achieve thatfrom my time, energy, job and artand the unrealistic p
  
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• Nazi occupation of the Louvre comes to the silver screen

  03-11-2016 22:00
  In his 2002 film Russian Ark, the director Alexander Sokurov recreated 300 years of Russian history in a single, 96-minute take at the Winter Palace of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Francofonia, his 2015 meditation on the history of the Muse du Louvre in Paris, reimagines the unlikely collaboration between the director of Frances national museums, Jacques Jaujard, and Count Franz Wolff-Metternich, the head of Germanys cultural preservation programme during the Nazi occupation. The film
  
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• Iggy Pop bares all for life drawing class

  03-11-2016 22:00
  Imagine yourself at a life drawing class. Youre prepared for a nude model. But what if the model that came in was Iggy Pop? The Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller posed this question when, in February, he arranged to have the rock star pose nude at the New York Academy of Art for a group of 22 artistssome amateurs, some traditionally trained, one as young as 19, the oldest 90. Some of the participants knew who he was and some didnt, but having said that, once the model is undressed, its a
  
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• Fate of Louvre under Nazi occupation comes to the silver screen

  03-11-2016 22:00
  In his 2002 film Russian Ark, the director Alexander Sokurov recreated 300 years of Russian history in a single, 96-minute take at the Winter Palace of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Francofonia, his 2015 meditation on the history of the Muse du Louvre in Paris, reimagines the unlikely collaboration between the director of Frances national museums, Jacques Jaujard, and Count Franz Wolff-Metternich, the head of Germanys cultural preservation programme during the Nazi occupation. The film
  
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• China cracks down on illegal trade of cultural artefacts

  03-11-2016 22:00
  
  China has tightened its laws banning mainland auction houses from selling artefacts looted from the country. The new regulations, issued by the State Administration on Cultural Heritage on 20 October, appear to renew Chinas commitment to fighting illicit trafficking. China ratified the 1970 Unesco convention prohibiting the sale of stolen cultural property in 1989.The rules replace a temporary order applied in 2003, which banned the auction of cultural relics with disputes regarding their right
  
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• Study: Seven Out Of Ten Musicians Report Mental Health Issues

  03-11-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Professionals working in the music industry, including those in theatre, may also be up to three times more likely to suffer from depression than the general public, according to the Help Musicians UK survey results.
  
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• Pandas! Hearts! Halibut! Gala Season Continues Apace in New York, With Fêtes for RxArt and SculptureCenter

  03-11-2016 20:45 via artnews.com
  On an unseasonably warm Wednesday, before an eager crowd of immaculately dressed patrons, SculptureCenter‘s chairman, Sascha Bauer, held court at the helm of the glittering Rainbow Room, 60 floors up in Rockefeller Center, for the Queens institution’s annual benefit gala, which this … Read More
  
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• Pandas! Hearts! Halibut! Gala Season Continues Apace in New York, With Fetes for RxArt and SculptureCenter

  03-11-2016 20:45 via artnews.com
  On an unseasonably warm Wednesday, before an eager crowd of immaculately dressed patrons, SculptureCenter’s chairman, Sascha Bauer, held court at the helm of the glittering Rainbow Room, 60 floors up in Rockefeller Center, for the Queens institution’s annual benefit gala, which this … Read More
  
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• Exploring Rodin’s Significant Role In Dance

  03-11-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Rodin used his (by then significant) influence to champion the careers of these dance pioneers and he was a key figure in supporting Nijinsky during the brouhaha that followed his 1911 ballet L’Apres Midi d’un Faune, when half of Paris claimed to be scandalised by its pagan images of sexuality and its adoption of archaic-looking dance forms.”
  
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• Hans Holbein – Distinguished Court Portraitist Or Scathing Satirist?

  03-11-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His miniature woodcut series The Dance of Death is like a “16th-century Charlie Hebdo,” argues a Cambridge historian.
  
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• San Diego And Tijuana Increasingly Express Themselves Through A Shared Art Ethos

  03-11-2016 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even amid calls by Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, for building a wall at that border, the art scene in the San Diego-Tijuana megalopolis has assumed a consciously and exuberantly binational ethos.”
  
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• John Milton’s Satan Is A Superhero

  03-11-2016 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stephen Akey: “My hero is fearless, proud, resolute, farseeing, self-sacrificing, and profoundly engaged in the struggle against tyranny and oppression. He’s also several hundred feet tall (when he wants to be), [and] does celestial cartwheels when flying between the earth and sun.”
  
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• Keep It in the Browser: At the New Museum Launch of Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology

  03-11-2016 17:58 via artnews.com
  Despite a miserable, cold, rain-soaked evening last Thursday, the basement theater of the New Museum in New York was filled for the launch of Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology project, a two-year online exhibition that aims to chronicle a history of … Read More
  
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• America—as seen by Bob Dylan

  03-11-2016 17:52
  
  The musician and elusive Nobel prizewinner, Bob Dylan, presents his latest works (of art) at the Halcyon Gallery in London in the exhibition The Beaten Path, which opens 5 November (until 11 December). Dylan depicts the highways and byways of smalltown America, a land of railroads, skyscrapers and bridges harking back to the 1950s. The musician writes in the catalogue preface: The common theme of these works, having something to do with the American landscape, [is] how you see it while
  
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• The Grim Art of Human Nature: A Big Show in a Former Hospital Plumbs Mortality, Medical Fetishization, and Violence

  03-11-2016 17:47 via artnews.com
  The halls of the former Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, a hospital that closed three years ago amid allegations of fraud, still smell of chemicals and cleaners, now mingled with mustiness. The building isn’t a mess, but it’s not tidy … Read More
  
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• What Exactly Is Consciousness? Here’s What We Know So Far

  03-11-2016 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What underlies being conscious specifically, as opposed to just being awake? We know it’s not just the number of neurons involved. The cerebellum (the so-called ‘little brain’ hanging off the back of the cortex) has about four times as many neurons as the rest of the brain, but seems barely involved in maintaining conscious level. It’s not even the overall level of neural activity – your brain is almost as active during dreamless sleep as it is during conscio
  
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• Criterion Collection Launches Streaming Service To Show The Good Stuff Netflix Doesn’t

  03-11-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FilmStruck, a joint venture of Criterion and the cable channel Turner Classic movies, will concentrate on foreign and independent features and documentaries as well as titles from the two partners’ libraries. “It won’t be a clearing house; the keyword here is ‘curation,’ with new titles rotated in and out each week.”
  
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• Rare Birds: Susan Rothenberg Discusses Her Recent Paintings, on View in New York

  03-11-2016 16:44 via artnews.com
  Last Friday I got an unexpected call from the painter Susan Rothenberg. It was the early evening, and a few minutes earlier I had been speaking to a representative at her New York gallery, Sperone Westwater, which opens its eleventh solo … Read More
  
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• Singapore Biennale reflects on the ties between Asian countries

  03-11-2016 16:41
  
  How the different parts of Asia view each other, and their historical and contemporary relationships, provides the focus of the fifth Singapore Biennale, which opened on Thursday at the Singapore Art Museum. Atlas of Mirrors (until 26 February) features works by 63 artists and collectives representing 19 countries or territories, all from or based in Asia, with 49 new commissions. The biennials creative director Susie Lingham, a lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and the former direct
  
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• Ivan the Terrible role model

  03-11-2016 16:41
  
  Russias first monument to Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century monarch known both for uniting the Russian state and killing family members and subjects, went up in the city of Oryol last month. The artist Vladislav Gultyaev, based in the Siberian city of Kansk, responded with an alternative memorial to the brutal ruler by embedding a stake covered in blood-red paint into the ground. He also wrote in a social media post that a nation that does not draw useful lessons from its history is compelled
  
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• Artists Light Up Empty Homes To Draw Attention To Abandonment Issues

  03-11-2016 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Breathing Lights” is a $1.2 million art project created by Frelin and architect Barbara Nelson in the browned-out, former manufacturing hub of Albany, Troy and Schenectady, N.Y. Using LED strips, portable batteries and programmed Arduino boards, they have built light panels and had them installed inside window frames. They’re looking to draw attention, through art, to abandoned spots once called homes.
  
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• Another Arts Journalism Boundary Broken? PR Firm Launches Visual Art Journal

  03-11-2016 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adam Abdalla, principal of the firm Cultural Counsel and founder of the new online publication, called Affidavit, talks about its content (critical and personal essays rather than news), potential conflicts of interest, and the editorial team.
  
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• Flaming June comes home to London

  03-11-2016 16:00
  
  Flaming June, arguably the best-known painting by Frederic Leighton, is going on show tomorrow (4 November) at the Victorian artists former home and studio in west London for the first time since 1930. The much-reproduced square canvas of a red-headed woman slumbering in a sheer orange dress has travelled to Leighton House Museum from the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. The exhibition Flaming June: the Making of an Icon (until 2 April 2017) partially recreates the line-up for Leightons f
  
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• Where That Strange Katharine Hepburn-Old Hollywood Accent Came From, And The (Very Strict) Woman Who Spread It

  03-11-2016 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The accent we’re talking about here is among the weirdest ways of speaking in the history of the English language. … Its popularity, though, in pop culture [of its era] can be tied to one American woman, and a very strange set of books.”
  
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• Ideal or real?

  03-11-2016 15:32
  For many, the temptation to look, unobserved, into other peoples houses is irresistible. Medieval and Renaissance Interiors in Illuminated Manuscripts allows readers to indulge that enthusiasm historically. Designed as an introduction to domestic interiors (mainly of high status) from the 14th to the 16th century, the books informative illustrations are selected from illuminated manuscripts, with an emphasis on Flemish and French material. Captions are admirably full in terms of commentary and p
  
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• National Portrait Gallery launches appeal to buy Wellington painting

  03-11-2016 15:30
  
  Gallery needs to raise £300,000 to acquire unfinished Duke of Wellington portrait – and plug a 160-year-old gap in its collectionA 160-year-old problem at the National Portrait Gallery will be fixed if it manages to raise £300,000 from the public to buy an unfinished portrait of the Duke of Wellington.The gallery on Thursday launched an appeal to help buy a portrait that would fill a significant hole in its collection – the lack of a significant depiction of one of Britis
  
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• Glenda Jackson, At 80, Is About To Do Eight Shows A Week As King Lear

  03-11-2016 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, she was legendary for her hard work and commitment on stage and screen alike, but this is her first public performance in 25 years, and she chose one of the hardest roles in the canon. Is she up to it? See what her director and her Goneril have to say.
  
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• Are College Museums Getting Too Big And Active? Are They Hogging Too Much Art?

  03-11-2016 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Public or private, rural or urban, college museums are tackling ambitious projects like never before, promoting academic curators – who were once part of a sleepier, insular art world – to be lead actors on the cultural stage. But not everyone agrees that school museums should compete with their mainstream counterparts or that students necessarily benefit more from having art of such magnitude as opposed to more modest collections.”
  
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• Here’s The Apology Letter From The Guy Who Sprinkled His Friend’s Ashes And Shut Down The Met Opera

  03-11-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Roger Kaiser: “If I had ever thought anything like this could happen, I would never have done it. … No one ever cautioned that I should reconsider or not do it. I think we each just got caught up in the romanticism of it all. The ugly possibilities never occurred to anyone – myself included.”
  
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• Two Are Better Than One: How An L.A. Classical Theater Company Makes Double Casting Work

  03-11-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Antaeus Theatre Company, which concentrates on plays by the likes of Ibsen, Brecht, and Williams (and yes, of course, Shakespeare), sees what it calls “partner casting” as a solution to a regular L.A. theater problem: actors getting called away at short notice for better-paid short-term film and TV gigs. Kevin Delin watches the process in action as Antaeus rehearses Hedda Gabler.
  
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• Morning Links: World Series Art Edition

  03-11-2016 13:49 via artnews.com
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• Morning Links: The World Series Art Edition

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• Sendak Estate V. Rosenbach Museum Verdict Isn’t So Simple

  03-11-2016 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The judge’s decision in the case mostly favored Sendak’s executors, but not entirely – and there’s more about the museum-library in the author’s will than we’ve seen in earlier reports. Peter Dobrin digs into the details.
  
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• God, sex or evolution – why did humans start making art?

  03-11-2016 13:43
  
  A new Australian exhibition suggests art was first made to attract mates, signal dangers or mimic nature. But this reduces a mysterious impulse to a biological driveWhy did human beings invent art? Why do we make it, look at it, revere it and want to possess it?Mona (the Museum of Old and New Art) in Tasmania offers some bold and provocative answers. I heard about its latest exhibition, On the Origins of Art, from participant Mat Collishaw, whose art is nothing if not provocative and just the st
  
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• Helsinki considers plan C to build Guggenheim

  03-11-2016 13:41
  
  A new plan to build a 130m Helsinki Guggenheim on the Finnish capital's waterfront increases the level of private funding and sees the US-based foundation cut its license fee by $10m to $20m payable over 20 years. This new plan, the third proposal since 2012, was announced today (3 November). It would mean the City of Helsinki provides 80m of the construction cost and underwrites a 35m loan to a company set up jointly with the Guggenheim Helsinki Supporting Foundation. The plan C follows the Fi
  
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• The Muslim Female Singer Who Went To Pakistan To Feel Free

  03-11-2016 13:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Compared to her home country, Saudi Arabia, singer-songwriter Rutaba Yaqub is freer: she can legally perform in public. And that’s what she’s doing. (includes audio)
  
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• Neil MacGregor unveils plans for Berlin’s ambitious Humboldt Forum

  03-11-2016 13:25
  
  Neil MacGregor, the former director of the British Museum and now the director of Berlins planned Humboldt Forum, has presented his concept for an admission-free museum that informs visitors about the nature and cultures of the world using exhibits from all the citys collections.Experience in cities including London and Washington shows that if you dont charge entrance, the local population comes more often, MacGregor told a press conference yesterday (2 November). Where you have to pay, it is
  
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• Yes, The Acid-Attack Instigator Is Back At The Bolshoi, Says Management, But He’s Not Going To Dance Onstage (yet)

  03-11-2016 13:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Bolshoi’s spokesperson stressed that Pavel Dmitrichenko, now out of jail, requested and was given a building pass only so he could take classes. “But that does not mean that he will join the company later. This question is not even under discussion for now.”
  
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• Democratic Thought In China Isn’t A Western Import – It Arose From The Cultural Revolution, Argues (Now-Exiled) Editor

  03-11-2016 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hu Ping, author of the now-seminal 1979 essay “On Freedom of Speech,” and once an enthusiastic young Maoist: “The Cultural Revolution gave rise to a widespread and deep-seated horror that led a few people” – Chinese who’d never read John Locke, John Stuart Mill, or the American Founding Fathers – “to formulate an explicit concept of freedom and gave the majority the desire and basis to accept this concept.”
  
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• Your Boss Has To Give You Time Off To Read, According To United Arab Emirates’ New Literacy Law

  03-11-2016 12:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What’s more, every newborn’s family will get a “knowledge briefcase,” taxes will be eliminated on publishing, and it will be illegal to destroy books. (So now we know where to send all those copies of Fifty Shades of Grey that secondhand bookstores won’t take.)
  
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• After Months Of Turmoil, Sydney Theatre Company Names Permanent Artistic Director (And He’s Only 30)

  03-11-2016 12:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kip Williams stepped up as interim AD in May, when Jonathan Church resigned and went home to his projects in England after nine months of attempting to commute to Australia. Williams has been with STC for five years and directed his first show there at age 25.
  
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• London’s National Portrait Gallery launches appeal to buy unfinished Duke of Wellington portrait by Thomas Lawrence

  03-11-2016 11:33
  
  The National Portrait Gallery in London is launching an appeal to buy a 1.3m portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence. Begun in 1829, the painting was unfinished at the artists death the following year. Only the face is nearly complete, with the rest of the body loosely sketched in.The portrait was commissioned by Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey, who was probably having an affair with Wellington. The historian Andrew Roberts describes it as a love token. For some reason the pict
  
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• Collector’s desert odyssey in the footsteps of O’Keeffe

  03-11-2016 11:01
  
  Not all art patrons sit in the shadows. The Iranian-born, London-based collector Maryam Eisler is not just a member of the Tate International Council and a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery in London. She also edits publications, with London Burning: Portraits from a Creative City (Thames & Hudson, 2015) under her belt. And thats not all: last summer, Eisler ventured into the American West, camera in hand, and photographed a series of female nudes strewn around the desert in New Mexico: the
  
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