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• Washington’s Hirshhorn Museum Holds Second Gala in New York, Announces Fundraising, Acquisitions

  04-11-2016 23:55 via artnews.com
  Last year, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., announced that it would be holding its annual Fall gala in New York, which is a city about three hours away via the Acela. This outraged some Washingtonians, who … Read More
  
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• Outcry after Toledo Museum of Art sells ancient Greek and Egyptian objects at auction

  04-11-2016 23:17
  
  The Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio has come under fire for selling off some of its antiquities to purchase new works. The museum, which put 68 objects into auctions at Christies New York last month, including ancient Greek and Egyptian artefacts, has been criticised by officials in Cyprus and Egypt. Citing the recent phenomenon of unspeakable destruction and illicit looting of cultural heritage, the Cypriot ambassador to the USA, Leonidas Pantelides, requested that the objects remain at the museu
  
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• Can Cirque du Soleil Make A Comeback Powered By China?

  04-11-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As it seeks to catapult out of a financially difficult period, the 32-year-old Montreal company finds itself at a strategic crossroads as it transitions beyond its signature big-top spectacles and Las Vegas extravaganzas and into new growth opportunities —  namely, partnering more with established entertainment properties like “Avatar” and expanding into China.”
  
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• A Tour of the Ames Collection at Sotheby’s New York, Intimately Hung on the Second Floor

  04-11-2016 22:16 via artnews.com
  Usually, when Sotheby’s installs work from its Fall evening sale in public viewing spaces—where visitors can take in for the last time works that will be sold off and scurried away in private homes, or storage facilities in Geneva—they go … Read More
  
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• Must-see shows in Turin during Artissima

  04-11-2016 22:10
  
  As collectors arrive in Turin for Artissima week, theyll find plenty of other opportunities to see works by international contemporary artists in the citys institutions and galleries. Here is our selection of a few of the must-see exhibitions. All eyes on Wael Shawky
  The Egyptian artist has a retrospective at the Castello di Rivoli (until 5 February 2017) and a show of new work at the Fondazione Merz, titled Al Araba Al Madfuna (until 5 February 2017). 
  Curated by Carolyn Christov-Bak
  
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• How Video Games Desensitize People To Violence

  04-11-2016 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Young children have unprecedented access to violent movies, games and sports events at an early age, and learning brutality is the norm. The media dwells upon real-life killers, describing every detail of their crime during prime-time TV. The current conditions easily set up children to begin thinking like soldiers and even justify killing. But are we in fact suppressing critical functions of the brain? Are we engendering future generations who will accept violence and ignore the voice of
  
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• Inside Scoops: Carolee Schneemann’s ‘Further Evidence’ at P.P.O.W. and Galerie Lelong Shows the Thinking and Data Behind the Performances

  04-11-2016 21:45 via artnews.com
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• My friend Mark Rothko: Pace Gallery’s Arne Glimcher explains the allure of the artist’s dark work

  04-11-2016 21:32
  
  Passion, romance, eroticism: these are words that Arne Glimcher, the founder of Pace Gallery, uses for the dark-coloured paintings of Mark Rothko. He has fulfilled his long-time wish of putting on an exhibition of such works with Rothko: Dark Palette, which opened this week at Paces 25th Street space in New York (until 7 January 2017). The show features 22 paintings from 1955 to the 1960s of various sizes and media, including an imposing 15ft-wide oil on canvas from the Seagram Murals commissio
  
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• Jean-Paul Kelly at Delfina Foundation, London

  04-11-2016 21:16 via artnews.com
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• Ai Weiwei Returns! A Spin Through the Artist’s Four Shows Across New York

  04-11-2016 21:07 via artnews.com
  Last Friday, after a long week punctuated by some pretty stunning news in this election cycle, I went to Lucien in the East Village to have a martini and, what do you know, world-famous Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei is … Read More
  
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• Why The Recent Proliferation Of Art Books?

  04-11-2016 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The art market appears to be positively high on books. But, again, why enter publishing now, a faltering field that’s economically unviable? Is the galleries’ enthusiasm for printed matter simply the flipside of a plight that has befallen the art book sector as a whole? Or is it about conquering the symbolic realm of word and image, where claims must be staked in the fight for artists and collectors?”
  
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• National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (partially) open at last

  04-11-2016 20:59
  
  The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens finally opened its new home in the former Fix brewery to the public on 31 October with the exhibition Urgent Conversations: Athens-Antwerp (until 29 January). After more than 12 years in planning and construction, the 37m museum building was completed in 2014 but has largely remained closed because of financial and bureaucratic obstacles.
  This weeks soft opening is only of the temporary exhibition galleries, but is the largest artistic pr
  
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• ‘Evidence of Authentic Struggle’: Eleanor Heartney on Philip Guston’s Drawings, in 1988

  04-11-2016 20:41 via artnews.com
  A show of Philip Guston’s Richard Nixon drawings opened this week at Hauser & Wirth in New York, so we are turning back to the December 1988 issue of ARTnews, in which Eleanor Heartney reviewed a survey of the artist’s drawings … Read More
  
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• Has The Global Literature Movement Homogenized Writing?

  04-11-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “World literature’s most outspoken critics, such as Gayatri Spivak, Emily Apter, and Aamir Mufti, have warned that any attempt to take on such an immense array of cultures and texts will always flatten and homogenize them, smoothing a rich array of particularities into a Eurocentric monoculture. This is a fair concern. But lately the strongest work in the field of world literature has done the opposite.”
  
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• Does Shaming An Arts Organization For Not Being Diverse Make A Difference?

  04-11-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Is it fair for one aspect of an organisation’s work to tar the rest? And, equally, can the sector become more diverse and inclusive by ‘naming and shaming’?
  
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• American Adolescence Is Now Extending Into The 20s, And That’s Good For The Brain

  04-11-2016 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The key words here are “neurobiological capital” and “metaplasticity.”
  
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• America Invented Adolescence (And America May Soon See The End Of It)

  04-11-2016 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In addition to the conventional scope of childhood from birth through to age 12 – a period when children’s dependency was widely taken for granted – Americans moved the goalposts of childhood as a democratic ideal by extending protections to cover the teen years … [and creating] institutions that could guide adolescents during this later period of childhood” – the juvenile court system and the democratic high school.
  
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• 50 Years Ago Disaster Struck Florence As The City Flooded, Damaging Priceless Art

  04-11-2016 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The flood was a pivotal moment in the history of conservation in terms of the development of new methods and techniques, key lessons learned, the formation of lasting relationships and, significantly, attracting a younger generation to the field. It is being marked by a series of events in Florence and Venice (which also sustained extensive damage).”
  
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• Octavia Spencer Beat The Hollywood Odds – And Now She’s Actively Changing Them

  04-11-2016 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ms. Spencer is African-American, female, in her 40s and not twig-shaped – Venn-diagram those traits atop the circle marked ‘Available Parts,’ and the overlapping area shrinks to pea-size.” Yet she’s carved out a career, earned an Oscar, and now branched into producing.
  
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• Marina Abramovic on Right-Wing Attacks: ‘It’s Absolutely Outrageous and Ridiculous’

  04-11-2016 18:56 via artnews.com
  Just when it seemed this election could not get any more absurd, artist Marina Abramovic has been dragged into the mayhem. Among the latest batch of emails released by Wikileaks, allegedly from the hacked account of John Podesta, the chairman … Read More
  
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• Sotheby’s 24-hour Bowie bonanza ft. Basquiat and bacon sandwiches

  04-11-2016 18:53
  
  Sothebys is pulling out all the stops for the arrival of the late David Bowies private collection at its London saleroom. More than 400 works of art and design owned by the musician are due to go under the hammer in a three-part auction on 10 and 11 November. As part of the ten-day public exhibition, Sothebys is kicking off a 24-hour bonanza of special Bowie events this evening (4 November), including a talks programme, tours with Sothebys specialists and a DJ.
  Night owls can look forward to a
  
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• Sotheby’s 24-hr Bowie bonanza—with Basquiat & bacon sandwiches

  04-11-2016 18:53
  
  Sothebys is pulling out all the stops for the arrival of the late David Bowies private collection at its London saleroom. More than 400 works of art and design owned by the musician are due to go under the hammer in a three-part auction on 10 and 11 November. As part of the ten-day public exhibition, Sothebys is kicking off a 24-hour bonanza of special Bowie events this evening (4 November), including a talks programme, tours with Sothebys specialists and a DJ.
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• The Billionaire Working To Put Shanghai On The International Culture Map

  04-11-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Long Museum West (long means “dragon” in Chinese) opened in 2014, on a scenic stretch of land on the western shore of the Huangpu River. The Shanghai government had offered a generous discount on the property, in an area that was once a manufacturing hub but is being transformed into a “cultural corridor” intended to rival New York’s Museum Mile and London’s South Bank.
  
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• 1960s sex, gangsters—and Mick Jagger—captured by Cecil Beaton

  04-11-2016 18:09
  
  One of the most provocative, pulsating films of the 1970sPerformance starring James Fox and Mick Jaggercomes under the spotlight at Sothebys S2 gallery in London later this month (25 November-23 December).  Images taken on the set of the cult movie by the society photographer Cecil Beaton will go on show in the selling exhibition, capturing the racy, dark underworld of gangsters, bohemia and sexual intrigue in swinging London. Beaton visited the set [a basement flat in Notting Hill] to
  
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• How Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto Got Its World Premiere In Boston, Before The Boston Symphony Even Existed

  04-11-2016 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s a story of rejection, ambition (artistic and municipal), and the poor guy that Cosima Liszt dumped to run off with Richard Wagner. (includes audio)
  
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• Vasari’s Last Supper back on display 50 years after Florence Flood

  04-11-2016 17:34
  
  The Italian president Sergio Mattarella attended todays unveiling of Giorgio Vasaris newly restored Last Supper (1543). The public can see Vasari's masterpiece for free today and tomorrow from 8pm to midnight.The panel painting housed in the Museo dellOpera di Santa Croce was submerged in polluted water for 12 hours when the Arno River burst its banks on 4 November 1966. The big reveal at the refectory of the Basilica di Santa Croce was timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the flood,
  
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• Leila Slimani Wins Goncourt Prize, France’s Highest Literature Award

  04-11-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Slimani won for her thriller “Chanson Deuce.” She “left Morocco for France at 17 and enrolled at Sciences Po in Paris, one of the country’s most prestigious universities, made her entrance onto the literary scene in 2014 with the critically acclaimed novel “Dans le Jardin de l’Ogre” (“In the Ogre’s Garden”), a look at the life of a sex-addicted woman in some of the most chic neighborhoods of Paris.”
  
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• Snapshot: Hans Eijkelboom’s photography of everyday fashion

  04-11-2016 17:13
  The Dutch artist has documented people’s clothes in more than 40 cities across the world
  
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• Snapshot: ‘Hans Eijkelboom — Photographic Concepts from the Seventies until Today’

  04-11-2016 17:13
  The Dutch artist documented everyday fashions in more than 40 cities across the world
  
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• Maybe It Made Sense For Shakespeare’s Globe To Part Ways With Emma Rice

  04-11-2016 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Terry Teachout argues that the London press’s “general meltdown” over Rice’s sacking sudden resignation as artistic director is misguided, and that the Globe’s press release was basically telling the truth. But that doesn’t mean the Globe hasn’t treated Rice badly.
  
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• Did Nicholas Serota Build A Tate Museum Only He Could Run?

  04-11-2016 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Tate trustees are searching for Serota’s replacement. But Serota is irreplaceable. In his 28 years as the Tate’s director, he has created the world’s most successful Modern and contemporary art museum, rebuilt Tate Britain, opened and is expanding Tate St Ives, has plans for Tate Liverpool, and tours Artist Rooms to 34 partner museums. He has displayed the collection in new ways and curates superb shows. On the business side, Tate generates more non-government revenu
  
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• Accessing Chaos: New SFMOMA Podcast From Artist Ross Simonini Tackles ‘Art and the Unknown’

  04-11-2016 16:13 via artnews.com
  In the crowded and popular world of podcasting, contemporary art enthusiasts have a relatively small pool to choose from. There is Bad At Sports, operating out of Chicago, one called Art + Ideas, from the Getty, and Tyler Green’s Modern Art … Read More
  
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• The Ballerina Who Got Away – From New York, From Seattle, From Ballet – Comes Back (For Now)

  04-11-2016 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Carla Körbes became a professional at New York City Ballet, but left because she wanted a greater variety of repertoire; she went to Pacific Northwest Ballet and had a brilliant career, but retired at age 33. (“I wasn’t having fun anymore,” she says.) But up at Vail, Damian Woetzel got her back onstage, and she’s about to dance Martha Graham in New York.
  
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• Highlights from Artissima

  04-11-2016 16:00
  
  After five years at the helm of Turins Artissima, Sarah Cosulichs tenure has come to an end. The fair is state-sponsored, which means she has had to reapply for the position and although Cosulichs role has not been confirmed, she seems keen to stay on. I feel there is more work to be done, but I do think I met the objectives that I set myself when I started here, she says.
  Coming from a curatorial background, it took a while to get used to the different dynamics of the commercial art world, Cos
  
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• The Art Market: Korean cool

  04-11-2016 15:56
  Dansaekhwa is all the rage; Sotheby’s moves into the data game; art patron exhibits her own photographs
  
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• Portrait of Iraq’s Picasso

  04-11-2016 15:56
  A vast retrospective draws out the deep cultural roots in Dia al-Azzawi’s vibrant Modernism
  
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• Basra’s Museum of Antiquities

  04-11-2016 15:56
  A bold initiative is helping to revive the Iraqi city’s cultural heritage
  
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• Chinese Conglomerate Pays $1 Billion For Dick Clark Productions

  04-11-2016 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Dalian Wanda, a real estate and entertainment corporation owned by a billionaire who has aggressively pursued US film companies in recent years, … already owns AMC Theaters, which it bought in July for $650m, and the production company Legendary Entertainment, which it bought in January for $3.5bn.”
  
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• How Akram Khan Turned His Most Famous Solo Into A Children’s Work About Ancestral Tales, A Locked Cellphone, And A Call Center

  04-11-2016 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The man in the photograph at right is angled slightly to one side, his arm curved and his fingers – held together, sharply separated from the thumb – pointing down into what appears to be an upside-down fish. Above him floats a bee, and a snake curls languorously over a branch, appearing to watch his activities with interest.”
  
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• 2016’s Word Of The Year Is ‘Politics’ Most Important Contribution To The English Language Since Watergate’

  04-11-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Actually, there will be several Words of the Year: Collins Dictionaries is just the first to announce; we’ve yet to hear from Oxford and Merriam-Webster. We wouldn’t be surprised, though, if they all choose this word.
  
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• Remember Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts? The New York Phil’s Going To Start Putting Them Online

  04-11-2016 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Philharmonic management] said Thursday that it was putting videos of Young People’s Concerts, and additional educational materials and interactive games, online for schools and families to stream for free. … The orchestra is calling the initiative ‘Young People’s Concerts Play!'”
  
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• The Lawsuit Over Broadway’s ‘Great Comet’ Is Officially Over (But The Adversaries Still Despise Each Other)

  04-11-2016 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The unusually ugly who-gets-how-much-credit-for-a-big-Broadway-musical battle was officially resolved on Wednesday, when the commercial producers of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 agreed to revise the show’s Playbill to give more specific credit to Ars Nova, the nonprofit theater that commissioned the show. … But it appears that hard feelings remain.”
  
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• Gothic horror, Elton John's photos and Richard Branson's head – the week in art

  04-11-2016 14:12
  
  Fergal Stapleton’s phantasmagoric new paintings and Turner’s watercolours of Margate on show in their home town – plus the rest of the week’s art happeningsFergal Stapleton
  In Sheridan Le Fanu’s ghost story Schalcken the Painter, a 17th-century Dutch artist meets an undead corpse; the chiaroscuro, bloody tints, eerie phantoms and spectral lights in Stapleton’s new paintings mix old master echoes with a slice of gothic horror as if they were painted by Schalcke
  
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• Kay Starr, Country/Pop/Jazz.Blues/Hillbilly Singing Star, Dead At 94

  04-11-2016 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Her] hits, for better or perhaps mostly for worse, defined her in the public mind as an empress of schlock pop, an impression that overshadowed a vast amount of high-quality, less commercial work that was widely revered among reviewers and her musical peers.”
  
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• Morning Links: Boyle Heights Galleries Edition

  04-11-2016 14:00 via artnews.com
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• America’s Most Un-Christian Church Came To Picket Juilliard, And Juilliard’s Students Rickrolled Them

  04-11-2016 13:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Protesters from the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church took a break from their regular pious activities – such as demonstrating at soldiers’ funerals and proclaiming ‘god hates f*gs’ – to picket Thursday morning in front of the Upper West Side’s Juilliard School in Lincoln Center.” (Their stated reasons are quaintly Calvinistic.) Dozens of the school’s young musicians responded by doing what they do best.
  
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• People of colour are painfully absent from our museums. Let’s change that | Lola Okolosie

  04-11-2016 13:44
  
  A stirring event at the V&A saw thousands flocking to celebrate the work of young artists, and stake a claim to the cultural spaces that have always ignored themThe German artist Hans Haacke wrote that “museums are managers of consciousness” giving us “an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it.” If you are a black and minority ethnic (BAME) attendee, what is painfully obvious is our absence in these public cultural spaces. That
  
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• Philip Glass Wins A Literary Prize

  04-11-2016 13:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And no, it’s not for the libretto of Einstein on the Beach. (“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, …”) It’s for an actual book: his memoir from last year.
  
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• Bortolami to Move From Chelsea to Walker Street in Tribeca

  04-11-2016 13:19 via artnews.com
  Bortolami, the gallery run by Stefania Bortolami that’s been on West 20th Street in Chelsea since 2010, will be leaving for a new space in Tribeca, at 39 Walker Street. The last show listed on the gallery’s website runs until December 22.Bortolami—who … Read More
  
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• Five Cy Twombly Sculptures Go To Philadelphia Museum Of Art

  04-11-2016 13:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The artist, who died in 2011, specifically selected the five pieces for exhibition at the museum, shortly before his death.”
  
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