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• Websites for 60 Artists and Art Institutions to Adopt .Art, a New Top-Level Online Domain

  25-11-2016 22:00 via artnews.com
  The enterprise behind .art, the new top-level domain created specifically for artists and art-related institutions, announced today that more than 60 organizations will take on “.art” URLs. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s website, for example, will drop its … Read More
  
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• Iran pulls the plug on Tehran art exhibition in Berlin

  25-11-2016 18:23
  
  Authorities block release of famous artworks unseeen in the west for years, forcing Gemälde Galerie to postpone exhibition indefinitelyAn exhibition of artworks from Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art which was due to open in Berlin next month has been indefinitely postponed because the Iranian authorities have failed to allow the paintings to leave the country.
  Ticket sales for the event – which had been hailed as a sign of a deepening cultural dialogue between Iran and the we
  
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• Norman Foster to design Prado extension in historic palace

  25-11-2016 18:17
  
  The British architect Norman Foster has won the prestigious international competition to remodel the 17th-century Hall of Realms as a new wing of the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The winning design, conceived jointly with the Spanish architect Carlos Rubio, beat submissions from museums favourites David Chipperfield and Rem Koolhaas on a shortlist announced in June.
  First proposed by the Spanish government in 1995, the project to restore the only surviving part of Philip IVs Buen Retiro pleasure
  
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• With A New Oscar-Contending Movie, Amazon Is Disrupting The Movie Industry

  25-11-2016 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Along with fellow streaming service Netflix, Amazon represents a serious threat to the bedrock institutions that traffic in prestige film – the art-house heavyweights (Fox Searchlight, Weinstein, Focus, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures Classics) that thrive under the shadow of the Big Six (Paramount, Sony, Fox, Disney, Warner Bros. and Universal) largely thanks to the Oscar contenders they produce.”
  
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• Russian art collection of Jewish couple who survived the Nazis goes on display

  25-11-2016 17:42
  
  Jacob and Kenda Bar-Gera collected works by non-conformist artists suppressed by the Soviet UnionAn important collection of underground Russian art collected by a Jewish couple who were liberated from the Nazis by the Red Army will appear at auction in London next week.The 62 works of non-conformist art are remarkable in their own right, coming from a period when abstract or conceptual artists were vigorously suppressed by the Soviet authorities.Continue reading...
  
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• Russian art collection of Jewish couple captured by Nazis goes on display

  25-11-2016 17:42
  
  Jacob and Kenda Bar-Gera collected works by non-conformist artists suppressed by the Soviet UnionAn important collection of underground Russian art collected by a Jewish couple who were liberated from the Nazis by the Red Army will appear at auction in London next week.The 62 works of non-conformist art are remarkable in their own right, coming from a period when abstract or conceptual artists were vigorously suppressed by the Soviet authorities.Continue reading...
  
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• How Vancouver Opera Is Navigating Uncharted Waters To What It Hopes Is The Future Of Opera

  25-11-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last year the company announced it was moving to a festival format. General Director Kim Gaynor: “I don’t want to abandon our presence throughout the year. The festival I really believe in because a festival allows you to do things you can’t do in a regular season. But at the same time, we must maintain our traditional audience until they die or they go to Florida or Mexico to retire. We must do that because those audiences still are the lifeblood of the organization.”
  
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• John Currin review – meta-painter dances on the knife edge of taste

  25-11-2016 17:19
  
  Sadie Coles, London
  Art history collides with horrible people in Currin’s disquieting canvases – and questions are asked about the reasons for painting itselfA couple share a moment of domestic complicity, smiling over something the man is reading in a newspaper. It can’t be today’s paper, or they’d both be screaming. Inexplicably, a white china jug is perched on the woman’s greying hairdo. It is a lovely jug, perfectly rendered, perhaps placed there by a polt
  
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• Evidence That Our Brains Grow And Change With New Experiences (So Challenge Yourself!)

  25-11-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When we have new experiences and encounter unfamiliar ideas, clusters of neurons are formed and existing clusters connected with previously learned behaviors are strengthened. Through the right kind of training, our brains can adapt to perform at higher levels than many of us tend to think—pushing us past what we believe our “natural abilities” to be.
  
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• Mexican Modernism: a savage vision

  25-11-2016 16:37
  A stirring exhibition in Philadelphia features tough truths in 20th century revolutionary art
  
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• Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, Brooklyn Museum — ‘tender and tough’

  25-11-2016 16:37
  Part pop artist, part conceptualist, she’s also a feminist with a soft spot for pornography
  
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• Snapshot: ‘Dented Pride’ by Sophie Green

  25-11-2016 16:36
  The photographer documents the collisions and the compositions on the surfaces of the cars
  
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• Philanthropy: One for all and all for art

  25-11-2016 16:36
  Collectors and museum curators are collaborating to buy artworks together
  
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• Early Americana: Tales from a new world

  25-11-2016 16:36
  How a home refurbishment in Maine grew into an exceptional collection now on show in California
  
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• The Art Market: It’s the experience that counts

  25-11-2016 16:35
  Sotheby’s action plan; lacklustre Latin American sales; newart database; the dot-art domain; a cul-de-sac of culture
  
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• Philanthropy: Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz, in search of a collective soul

  25-11-2016 16:35
  A couple is behind a private Miami museum that is sending art students to China
  
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• Klaus Biesenbach Recalls the Founding of KW in Berlin 25 Years ago, a Moment of ‘Radical Change and Freedom’

  25-11-2016 16:33 via artnews.com
  Exactly 25 years ago today, the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art opened in a disused margarine factory in Berlin. The Berlin Wall had come down only two years before, and word had spread quickly that the city was becoming a … Read More
  
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• 80 Years Ago Dale Carnegie Published “How To Win Friends And Influence People”. It’s Still On The Bestseller List

  25-11-2016 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Why on Earth are people still buying a self-help book from 1936? Carnegie’s principles of relentless positivity are right at home in a culture of ingratiation, from the widespread drive to amass online friends by liking their posts (and thence to become an influencer) to the way every interaction with someone in the service industry feels like the prelude to a customer satisfaction survey. His ideas retain a startling currency in a society whose very drives and mores he helped to cr
  
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• UK Arts Organizations Have Saved £8.7m since 2012 By Reducing Carbon Emissions

  25-11-2016 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Compared to doing nothing, the reduction in energy emissions has saved £8.7m since 2012/13. The report predicts that if the 4.5% annual decrease continues until 2019/20, emissions will be 46% lower than in 2012/13 and £54m will have been saved in energy costs.”
  
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• McKinsey Study: Automation Will Eliminate A High Number Of Jobs In Coming Decades (Maybe Yours)

  25-11-2016 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “McKinsey estimates that about 45% of all activities in the economy can be automated. How many people will that affect? They estimate that bots can pick up about a third of all the work in 60% of occupations. That figure is based on technologies that already exist and are in use, not capabilities that may arrive in the future. Global trends already show that the growth of jobs is starting to decline or even dip into the negatives in countries around the world; now robots are poised to take
  
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• We’re Hurtling Towards A Post-Job Future (Because There Won’t Be Any) What Might That Look Like?

  25-11-2016 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What would society and civilisation be like if we didn’t have to ‘earn’ a living – if leisure was not our choice but our lot? Would we hang out at the local Starbucks, laptops open? Or volunteer to teach children in less-developed places, such as Mississippi? Or smoke weed and watch reality TV all day? I’m not proposing a fancy thought experiment here. By now these are practical questions because there aren’t enough jobs.”
  
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• Sometimes Black And White Open Possibilities We Hadn’t Thought About. Rauschenberg Took The Opening

  25-11-2016 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As Cage demonstrated in 4’33”, a piece for piano inspired in part by the White Paintings in which nothing is played for that exact duration, there is no silence in music that is not also an opening to sound of other sorts, and so it is with these monochromes: the visual realm is opened up even as it appears to be evacuated. The Black Paintings also point to a space outside painting, which Rauschenberg called the ‘gap between art and life’, and it was capacious enou
  
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• Literature Glamorizes Madness As Some Sort Of Insight To The Human Condition. The Reality Is Somewhat Different

  25-11-2016 14:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Madness”, in the terms dictated by this rich literary history, bears no real relation to the objective reality of mental illness. The day to day business of mental illness is hard, boring and unrewarding, and though it can certainly provide benefits – increased empathy for other people’s pain, an ability to withstand intense periods of suffering – it rarely offers profound revelations about the human condition. “Madness”, on the other hand, sounds wild,
  
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• Miami spice: a unique mix

  25-11-2016 13:05
  Edwin Heathcote surveys the city’s diverse styles and asks how it will keep its character
  
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• Tancredi Parmegianni at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

  25-11-2016 13:02
  The artist found no more inspiring home than Venice — and it’s a joy to see his work back there
  
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• Robert Rauschenberg and the subversive language of junk

  25-11-2016 13:00
  
  With their lightbulbs, chairs and signs from the street, Rauschenberg’s sculptures reshaped art in the 20th centuryTowards the end of his relentlessly inventive life, Robert Rauschenberg confided an anxiety. He was worried that his mission to introduce the world to itself by way of the spectacular mirror of his art could fail, not because he lacked energy or talent, but because he might “run out of world”.No one had bolder ambitions than Rauschenberg, and no one did more to bre
  
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• Robert Rauschenberg, Victor Pasmore and electric chairs – the week in art

  25-11-2016 12:33
  
  Rauschenberg’s titanic Tate show opens in London this week, along with the provocative Painters’ Painters – and a host of other art happeningsRobert Rauschenberg
  The hungry genius of Rauschenberg embraced everything from the space race to Dante’s Inferno – often in the same work. His neo-dada art of assemblage, collage and montage is still very much alive in 21st-century art. At an anxious time in US history, the creative abundance of one of its greatest artists is
  
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• Billionaire Victor Pinchuk unveils shortlist for $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize

  25-11-2016 12:12
  
  Twenty-one artists have been shortlisted from more than 4,000 entrants for the fourth Future Generation Art Prize, the award established in 2009 by the Ukrainian billionaire and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk for artists under 35 worldwide. The winner, to be announced at a ceremony in Kiev in March, will receive $100,000 ($60,000 in cash and a $40,000 production budget to make a new work).Works by the nominees will go on show at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev (25 February-16 April 2017), and at
  
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• Ithell Colquhoun’s The Judgement Of Paris: a radical take on the much-painted myth

  25-11-2016 11:59
  
  The surrealist artist brings character and pubic hair to a version of the tale that couldn’t be more different from its old master equivalentsThe Judgement Of Paris, where mortal Paris gets to decide whether a nude Hera, Aphrodite or Athena is best looking, doesn’t sound like obvious feminist fare. Yet, in this take on the myth, Paris kneels small and demure; the women rule. Continue reading...
  
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• Chrystel Lebas photographs the British landscape

  25-11-2016 11:29
  Following in the footsteps of Edward James Salisbury, the French photographer reveals the changes wrought by climate and man
  
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• Should Big Oil be allowed to back Big Art?

  25-11-2016 11:18
  Galleries and museums are facing mounting pressure from a protest movement over the ethics of their corporate sponsorship
  
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• Should Big Oil back Big Art?

  25-11-2016 11:18
  Galleries and museums are facing mounting pressure from a protest movement over the ethics of their corporate sponsorship
  
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• Ellen DeGeneres: Medal of Freedom recipient (and curator)

  25-11-2016 09:20
  
  President Obama brought a tear to many an eye this week when he praised the popular talk show host Ellen DeGeneres for her influence on the gay rights movement, saying that she was "full of kindness and light" while awarding the perky comedian the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But Ellen can also add another title to her CV: curator. DeGeneres has chosen 50 items from the 210,000-strong collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New Yor
  
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