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• Novels Have Shaped Our Notions Of Love And Marriage. Here's How

  29-11-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The love/marriage story is one of the most enduring plotlines in all literature. These stories have strongly influenced how we look at relationships and what we desire.
  
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• Major Picasso-Giacometti exhibition bound for Qatar

  29-11-2016 22:09
  
  A blockbuster exhibition dedicated to Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti is due to open in Qatar early next year. Picasso-Giacometti (22 February-21 May), which will launch at the Fire Station Artist in Residence centre in Doha, opened earlier this year in Paris at the Muse National Picasso (until 5 February).The exhibition includes more than 80 works drawn from the collections of the Muse National Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti in Paris. These include The She Goat by Picasso (1950) and
  
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• Why Gerhard Richter Keeps Destroying Hudreds Of Millions Of Dollars Worth Of His Work

  29-11-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "These were not newly finished pieces that failed to meet his vision or standards; in many cases, they were paintings that had appeared in exhibitions and shows—paintings that Der Spiegel estimates would now be worth around $655 million—before Richter eventually deemed them unworthy."
  
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• Why I like Art Abu Dhabi more than Art Basel in Miami Beach

  29-11-2016 22:00
  
  I wonder whos really enjoying themselves at Art Basel in Miami Beach today. Art is supposed to enlighten, uplift, stimulate, delight, provoke or improve us. Dragging oneself around thousands of works of art in random competition with each other is the worst possible way to have any of these experiences.
  Fairs coarsen my perceptions so that I end up remembering things that are either very big and red, very astonishing or very unpleasant, while refined, quiet works of art fade into the background
  
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• Vizcaya, then and now

  29-11-2016 22:00
  When the industrialist James Deering bought 180 acres of seaside land in Miami in 1912 to build a winter home, the south Florida city was far from fashionable. Miami at that time was like a frontier, says Gina Wouters, the curator of the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, an extravagant mansion modelled after an 18th-century Italian villa that is now a National Historic Landmark. Most of Deerings wealthy peers were building their Florida snowbird homes further north in Palm Beach, Wouters says. There w
  
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• Rubells put 400 outstanding new works on display as they prepare to move home

  29-11-2016 22:00
  
  High Anxiety: New Acquisitions
  New Shamans/Novos Xams: Brazilian Artists Video Art in Latin America: Selections from Brazil
  Until 25 August 201
  Rubell Family Collection
  www.rfc.museum
  The Rubell Family Collection has a unique place in the landscape of the art world. While it remains a strong Miami institution in its own right, market-makers and hangers-on, as well as intellectuals, follow the familys movements.
  Just about everyone wants to know what the Rubells have been up to, and this week th
  
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• Madonna meets day of the Jackal at the ICA

  29-11-2016 22:00
  
  Thomas Bayrle: One Day on Success StreetUntil 26 March 201
   ICA, Miamiwww.icamiami.orgWhile work continues on the Institute of Contemporary Arts planned permanent home, Miamis youngest art institution is operating out of the Moore Building in the Design District. On show in this airy, shopping-mall-like space is the first US museum presentation of work by the German artist Thomas Bayrle, whose large-scale installation Wire Madonna (2016) is to be found in the buildings atriumbait for eager
  
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• Kounellis rides into town but the horses stay in New York

  29-11-2016 22:00
  
  Jannis Kounellis: Paintings 1983-2012
  Until 29 April 2017
  The Margulies Collection at the Warehousewww.margulieswarehouse.comLast summer, Gavin Browns Enterprise enthralled New York with its presentation of Jannis Kounelliss 1969 work Untitled (12 Horses). This impressive piece of relational aesthetics involved 12 horses tethered to the gallerys walls (as well as many attendants to look after them, to say nothing of the bales of hay).Interest in Kounellis has hardly waned since the Greek a
  
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• From ‘fiasco’ to hero: the rise and rise of Cy Twombly

  29-11-2016 22:00
  Cy Twombly is now so revered that it is difficult to imagine a time when his work prompted derision. But when he first showed his painting cycle Nine Discourses on Commodus (1963) at the Leo Castelli gallery in New York in 1964, critics dismissed them. Among the most strident was Donald Judd, who was then helping define Minimalism as the next great American art movement. Noting that it had been three years since Twombly, by then based in Rome, had last exhibited in New York, Judd wrote: Twombly
  
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• Claim: Theatre Is A Refuge In An Age Of Social Media And Divisive Politics

  29-11-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s an imaginative, empathetic exercise, and we could probably all do with a little bit of that. Particularly in this time of social media and polarisation and fake news stories and who we choose to follow making us more extreme. We’re growing further apart. Here is one of the few places we actually have a communal, social experience. Now, more than ever, theatre has not just a possible role but an obligation to preserve these pockets of unmediated, unpoliticised, social, com
  
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• So A Man Goes Into An Auction And Buys A Painting. He Turns Around And Sells It At Huge Profit. Now The Seller Is Mad At The Auction House

  29-11-2016 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The auction house is Sotheby's and the sellers have big questions. "The traders asked Sotheby’s, according to court papers, whether it had been aware that there was a much higher price to be had for the painting. Hadn’t Sotheby’s taken the painting, presale, to an apartment where the Russian billionaire had viewed it? Were the traders misled to favor the Swiss dealer, a valued Sotheby’s client named Yves Bouvier?"
  
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• Paolozzi sculpture at Euston is one of many works of art left to rot | Letters

  29-11-2016 20:49
  
  We are concerned that no one is taking responsibility for Sir Eduardo Paolozzi’s abstract head Piscator at Euston station in London (Valuable sculpture left to rot because no one wants to claim it, 29 November). This is part of a familiar story. Historic England is campaigning to save postwar public art and has warned that some of this art, created by some of the most important artists of the 20th century, is disappearing. We have revealed that a growing number of sculptures, architectural
  
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• Art In A Time Of Crisis (What To Do?)

  29-11-2016 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  How should artists respond in times of crisis? Leonard Bernstein suggested burrowing deeper into art. "A generous interpretation of Bernstein’s words suggests that musicians can transform art’s political impact by doing what they’re already doing – only better. But I’m skeptical of the idea that a more perfect art can really bring into being a more perfect union. Bernstein makes vague allusions to Kennedy’s presumably political “goals,” but the onl
  
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• ‘Mystery Is Everything’: John Zorn Makes Music for Agnes Martin

  29-11-2016 20:11 via artnews.com
  Quietude might be better suited than music for the art of Agnes Martin, but as the post-punks used to say: silence is a rhythm too. Certainly it is in the realm of Martin’s lines and grids, where hushed demarcations of empty space suggest so … Read More
  
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• Was James Booker The Best New Orleans Pianist Ever?

  29-11-2016 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Booker on a good night was a wonder of the world... Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, and other peers had huge admiration for Booker’s talent; but his long battle with drugs, the mystery of the missing eye beneath the star-emblazoned black patch and the stark swings of mood suggesting bipolar disorder gave him the reputation of a crazy. A loveable crazy, sometimes, but he was also prone to darkness and unpredictability."
  
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• Booths at Art Basel Miami Beach Take on Trump as Art World Reacts to the Election Results

  29-11-2016 19:51 via artnews.com
  At first glance, there’s little sign of any political unrest here on the sun-dappled, palm-lined streets of Miami Beach, where the art world has decamped for this city’s edition of Art Basel. On the opening night, there was a rosé-soaked picnic … Read More
  
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• An invitation to the White House: we go inside Dagenham's experimental art factory

  29-11-2016 19:28
  
  A bling soft play centre, an OAP brewery, a socialist Jack and the Beanstalk: Dagenham residents are waking up to the possibilities of art in a great suburb-wide experiment‘The last thing this area needs,” snarls Ravinder Atwal, “is some middle-class film-maker reducing our community to a prose poem.” Her words come at the start of Patrick Goddard’s new film about Dagenham. Atwal’s in her VW campervan, driving Goddard to a car boot sale in the east London subu
  
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• Why Do We Change Our Minds After Making Decisions? Brain Scientists Investigate:

  29-11-2016 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Both sets of studies confirm the importance of evidence accumulated after a decision has been made, but diverge on the source of this evidence. The Cambridge group suggests that an incoming stream of evidence is continually accumulated both before and after a choice has been made. By contrast, the Trinity College group suggests that top-down signals – information that feeds back to influence earlier stages of processing – provide an additional input to enable changes of mind."
  
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• Report: There's A Big Shift Happening In Where UK Arts Orgs Are Getting Their Funding

  29-11-2016 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Donations increased at 316 NPOs, adding £13.2m to their revenues, but a further 253 saw the value of their donations fall by a total of £12.3m compared with the previous year. Loss of income from trusts and foundations affected 231 organisations, where revenues from this source fell by £15.7m, while 311 benefited from a growth in this income stream, worth £13.5m."
  
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• A Week Post-Pence, "Hamilton" Sets New Record For Broadway Box Office

  29-11-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The show grossed $3.3 million in the week. "It is not clear how many seats “Hamilton” sold for a $998 box office price, but the show’s high average paid admission last week — $303, which is also a Broadway record — suggests that a substantial number of seats were sold for a premium ( these are the official box office prices — many people pay more buying tickets from resellers)."
  
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• Absent Snow White: Paul McCarthy’s Brilliant Show in New York Mixes Politics With the Detritus of Childhood Memories

  29-11-2016 18:21 via artnews.com
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• How Did So Many Children Become Convinced They Remembered Abuse That Never Actually Occurred?

  29-11-2016 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Remember the Satanic-ritual-abuse-in-day-care panic of the 1980s and '90s? Here's a look at how the false memories of the young victims-that-weren't got implanted and took hold - and how some of them handled it when, years later, they came to understand that what they thought they remembered hadn't really happened.
  
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• Rauschenberg show to include 1,000 gallons of 'listening' mud

  29-11-2016 17:52
  
  Tate Modern’s retrospective of artist’s work features pungent Mud Muse swamp, which curators promise will ‘bubble to perfection’A primordial swamp with 1,000 gallons of bubbling, glooping, pungent mud has been installed at Tate Modern as part of a show celebrating one of the 20th century’s artistic trailblazers.The gallery will open its Robert Rauschenberg retrospective to the public on Thursday, a winter blockbuster and the most comprehensive survey of the artist&r
  
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• Mexico City’s Material Art Fair Doubles Footprint for 2017 Edition

  29-11-2016 17:51 via artnews.com
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• 85-Year-Old Dance Legend Carmen de Lavallade On Making A Place In Your Life For Dance

  29-11-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "What I love now is mentoring young people about performance. Where do you get your ideas? You must read, do your homework. And get rid of those cellphones. Lift your eyes and look at each other. You aren’t going to grow if you don’t watch people. Tell their stories. Tell your story."
  
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• In an Open Letter, Zaha Hadid Architects States That Director’s Controversial Views ‘Will Not Be Our Future’

  29-11-2016 17:03 via artnews.com
  Zaha Hadid Architects, the firm founded by the British architect Zaha Hadid, who died earlier this year, issued an open letter today about its director, Patrik Schumacher. Responding to Schumacher’s provocative claims that London should get rid of all social … Read More
  
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• Another Word Of The Year For 2016 - This One's Based On Actual Searches For Its Definition

  29-11-2016 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dictionary.com noticed big spikes in searches for this word after the Brexit vote and following a speech by President Obama in June expressing concern about Donald Trump's rhetoric. (There was an even bigger spike last year from South Africa following attacks on foreign workers.)
  
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• Preview Art Basel Miami Beach 2016, Part One

  29-11-2016 16:58 via artnews.com
  The 15th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach opens Thursday, December 1, with VIP previews beginning tomorrow, November 30. The 2016 edition of the fair, which runs through Sunday, December 4, will bring 269 galleries from 29 countries to the … Read More
  
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• Preview Art Basel Miami Beach 2016, Part 1

  29-11-2016 16:58 via artnews.com
  The 15th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach opens Thursday, December 1, with VIP previews beginning tomorrow, November 30. The 2016 edition of the fair, which runs through Sunday, December 4, will bring 269 galleries from 29 countries to the … Read More
  
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• Arts Prizes Should Not Have Cash Awards, Period

  29-11-2016 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Hepworth Prize for Sculpture winner Helen Marten announced that she would share her prize money with the other four nominees, David Lister writes, "she didn't question the actual idea of cash awards. I do."
  
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• ‘Dear Ivanka, Your Daddy Is Scary as Hell’: Art Workers Address President-Elect’s Daughter in New York Protest

  29-11-2016 16:02 via artnews.com
  And so it begins. Donald J. Trump has been president-elect of the United States of America for three weeks—a sentence that still feels bizarre and appalling to type—and protests in the New York art community are starting to take shape. … Read More
  
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• Mom & Popped: In a Market Contraction, the Middle-Class Gallery is Getting Squeezed

  29-11-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  Steven Stewart opened his gallery in 2011 in Tribeca and called it Kansas, a reference to his home state. He built a collector base, a following. In 2015 he moved across town to the Lower East Side to be in … Read More
  
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• Robert Rauschenberg review – six sensational decades of work finally reveal the man in full

  29-11-2016 15:23
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Driven by an insatiable curiosity, the groundbreaking artist took the triumphs and wreckage of American life and turned them into art – and this brilliant show captures his extraordinary range
  From first to last, Tate Modern’s Robert Rauschenberg show is almost impossibly rich and rewarding. Paintings made with dirt and paintings of nothing at all, images that encapsulate the achievements and disasters of 1960s America, a stuffed goat that looks like it has been f
  
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• Morning Links: Alex Poots Edition

  29-11-2016 15:04 via artnews.com
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• Why ratifying the Hague Convention matters

  29-11-2016 10:00
  
  Earlier this year the UK decided finally to ratify the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two tougher protocols of 1954 and 1999. A bill is now being debated by Parliament that could become UK law early next year. This is an astonishing turn of events: from being one of the worlds few major military powers (and the only one deploying its forces in combat on a regular basis) not to have ratified the convention, the UK will become t
  
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• ‘Tide by Side’ in Miami Beach, Presented by Faena Art

  29-11-2016 00:15 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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