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• Breaking the Sound Barrier: Cellist Charlotte Moorman’s Avant-Garde Actions Remain Provocative

  08-12-2016 22:47 via artnews.com
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• Judy and Leonard Lauder Give Portland Museum of Art $5 M., Largest Matching Donation in its History

  08-12-2016 22:25 via artnews.com
  The Portland Museum of Art in Maine announced today that New York–based philanthropists and collectors Judy and Leonard Lauder will provide the institution with a $5 million donation that is intended to inspire others to give, the museum announced today … Read More
  
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• Puppets, Bagels, and Amphibian Ushers: At David Kirshoff’s ‘Postictal Paradise’ at 321 Gallery in Brooklyn

  08-12-2016 22:01 via artnews.com
  When I arrived one Saturday last month at Clinton Hill, Brooklyn’s 321 Gallery—the site of David Kirshoff’s collaborative performance Postictal Paradise, which runs twice more in December—I was immediately greeted by a masked, aquatic Gollum-like figure who took my jacket … Read More
  
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• The glories of Versailles, from giant Gobelin tapestries to Marie Antoinette’s gilded harp, make their way to Australia

  08-12-2016 22:00
  Versailles at the height of its power and glory is at the centre of an exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) next month. The show of around 130 loans from the Chteau de Versailles focuses on the palaces history from 1682 (when it officially became the seat of French political power) until revolution brought the ancien rgime (but not the palace at Versailles) tumbling down.Among the loans are paintings, furniture, tapestries and, most notably, a 1.5-tonne fountain statue
  
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• Ten art-tastic gifts that will fit under your Christmas tree

  08-12-2016 22:00
  
  If your nearest and dearest know their Monets from their Manets, you've come to the right place. We snooped around galleries, websites and museums shops for presents that won't leave you red-faced in front of your discerning pals. From ancient jewels to post-war puzzles, we bring you ten arty gifts that will keep on giving when the turkey's only a distant memory.
  Take a nap with Louise Bourgeois
  Is your sleep disrupted by nightmares of monstrous spiders? Are you tossing and turning night after n
  
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• London's Old Master sales bolstered by private collections

  08-12-2016 22:00
  
  The final evening sales of the year in London yielded reassuring results for the Old Masters market. 
  Sothebys put on a modest-sized but successful sale that was anchored by works from four private collectionsthose of the Marquess of Lothian, the Forbes Collection, the Rutter Collection and the Von Lenbach Collection.
  Italian paintings fared well on the night. From the Von Lembach collection, a 15th-century Sienese gold-ground work, Flagellation (1441), by the Master of the Osservanza, cli
  
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• ‘Letting colour loose’: Kenneth Noland’s final paintings come to Pace New York

  08-12-2016 22:00
  
  In 2006, the late painter Kenneth Noland started what would turn out to be his final series. The 15 works, created when the US artist was in his mid-80s, have never been shown publicly before. Next month, they will make their debut at Pace Gallerys 57th Street location in New York (Kenneth Noland: The Last Paintings, 26 January-4 March 2017). Douglas Baxter, the gallerys president, calls the series a radical departure.
  Nolandwho became famous in the late 1960s for his brightly coloured concentr
  
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• Jenny Holzer creates Walt Whitman poetry piece for New York Aids memorial

  08-12-2016 22:00
  
  The New York City Aids memorial, incorporating a text piece by the American artist Jenny Holzer, has been officially unveiled in the West Village and is expected to open to the public by the end of December. The landmarkcommemorating men, women and children who lost their lives to Aidsis located near the former St Vincents hospital where a special ward opened in 1984 for people with HIV. 
  Excerpts from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman [first published in 1855] are the text on the granite pav
  
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• China’s Terracotta Warriors march back into the UK

  08-12-2016 22:00
  
  The Terracotta Warriors are marching back to the UK in 2018 butfor the first time in more than 30 yearsto a museum outside of London. National Museums Liverpool and Chinas Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Bureau signed an agreement in November to send a selection of the sculptures to Liverpools World Museum from February to October 2018. The Qin-era statues last visited the UK in 2007, for a show at the British Museum that attracted 850,000 visitors. A smaller contingent of the terracotta army came to
  
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• Emre Hüner at STUK, Leuven, Belgium

  08-12-2016 21:43 via artnews.com
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• ‘Freedom of Speech Is Absolutely Imperative’: Faith Ringgold on Her Early Art, Activism at the Museum of Modern Art

  08-12-2016 21:28 via artnews.com
  Earlier this year, the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired one of Faith Ringgold’s landmark early paintings, American People Series #20: Die (1967), a potent 12-foot-long scene of a riot that shows black and white men and women … Read More
  
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• Wendy Vogel Will Organize the Curated Section of the 2017 Volta NY Fair

  08-12-2016 21:27 via artnews.com
  The Volta NY art fair has tapped critic Wendy Vogel to organize the Curated Section of its 2017 edition. The fair will open on March 1 at Pier 90 in New York City.Vogel’s show will be titled “Your Body Is … Read More
  
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• College Art Association Details 2017 New York Conference, Including Black Lives Matter Panel, Talks With Coco Fusco, Katherine Bradford

  08-12-2016 21:19 via artnews.com
  The College Art Association has announced details for its 105th annual conference, to be held in New York next February.The conference, which will run from February 15 to 18 with the theme “myCAA,” will focus on opening up dialogue within the association’s … Read More
  
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• Artist publishes spoof photos despite fear of being sued by Trump

  08-12-2016 18:37
  
  Alison Jackson says ‘litigious’ president could have chilling effect on artistic freedom as she publishes book featuring Trump lookalikeArtist Alison Jackson has said that she chose to self-publish spoof photographs of Donald Trump as part of a protest against the potentially chilling effect a “litigious” president could have on artistic freedom.The celebrity lookalike specialist said she was warned by her lawyers against publishing the images, some of which feature a Tru
  
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• The Bearded Woman of Abruzzi: a 17th-century hero of gender fluidity

  08-12-2016 16:51
  
  When Neapolitan artist Jusepe de Ribera painted local celebrity Magdalena Ventura, he turned her from a freak into an almost supernaturally powerful assertion of individualityGender is a fluid concept in the 21st century. Male and female are ceasing to be conceived as binary opposites. Categories of sexual identity are complex. But when Magdalena Ventura posed to be portrayed by Jusepe de Ribera in 1631, the world was in theory a much simpler and more stable place. In that age men were men and w
  
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• Kader Attia accuses Universal Music of plagiarism over French rap video

  08-12-2016 15:16
  
  A complaint filed by Kader Attia against Universal Music France for plagiarism has turned into a public spat between the French-Algerian artist and the South African-born artist Kendell Geers, who published an open letter on 5 December criticising Attia for censoring freedom of expression.
  Attia says he is filing a lawsuit against Universal Music France over the video for the song Putain dpoque (loosely translated as these fucking times), a collaboration by the French rappers Dosseh and Nekfeu.
  
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• Morning Links: Cash-Optional Edition

  08-12-2016 15:01 via artnews.com
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• High art: how the creative world is helping legal weed rebrand itself

  08-12-2016 13:45
  
  Artists, including Richard Prince and Kenny Scharf, are working with ‘creative cannabis agencies’ on campaigns to modernize marijuana’s stoner imageIt’s July 2016. At Los Angeles art gallery Blum and Poe – the same venue that hosted Kanye West’s Famous sculpture – the air tingles with the sweet smoke of cognac-brined hotdogs and marijuana. Reggae plays on the patio, and the sprinkling of guests seems outnumbered by the security guards hulking against the
  
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• Team led by US artist Leo Villareal wins design competition to light up London’s Thames

  08-12-2016 11:51
  
  The US artist Leo Villareal will light up Londons bridges after winning the design competition for the Illuminated River initiative, an ambitious Thames-based public art project.
  Seventeen bridges, running from Albert Bridge in the west to Tower Bridge in central London, will be lit up under the scheme, as well as parts of the rivers banks (two of the bridges are yet to be built, the Nine Elms to Pimlico crossing and the controversial Garden Bridge designed by Thomas Heatherwick).A delegation l
  
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• 'Once in a lifetime' exhibition of Cézanne's portraits to tour capitals

  08-12-2016 11:00
  
  London, Paris and Washington will take turns to host show of ‘most personal’ work by artist Picasso called ‘the father of us all’The first exhibition devoted entirely to the portraits of Paul Cézanne, an artist hailed as “the father of us all” by Matisse and Picasso, is to be staged in London, Paris and Washington.The National Portrait Gallery in London announced details of what it said would be a once in a lifetime exhibition. Continue reading...
  
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• London's National Portrait Gallery to host first major exhibition of Cézanne's portraits

  08-12-2016 11:00
  
  A major show on the portraits of Paul Czanne is to be held in Paris, London and Washington, DC in 2017-18. This will be the first ever exhibition of his portraits, in what is a collaborative venture between the Muse dOrsay, Londons National Portrait Gallery and Washingtons National Gallery of Art.Until now, Czannes portraiture has received surprisingly little attention, so we are thrilled to be able to bring together so many of his portraits, says Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National Por
  
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• Untitled( mao says i have petty bourgeosie guilt because i only want to fuck one woman for the rest of her life from my class. he says i should fuck everyone for free.)

  08-12-2016 01:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i don’t want to know her name at first. she has a thick mouth and gaps between her teeth. her eyes are blue. her skin is brown she identifies as queer white and indian. she’s five foot four and twenty eight years old.
  do you make websites, i said.sorta, she said.that’s grand, i said.i’m a communist, i said.sexy, she said. communism turns me on.i’m reading lenin and mao again, i said.ohh talk dirty to me, she said.i dream about sucking lenin’s cock every night,
  
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• Underground artists fear Oakland fire will spur a wave of mass evictions

  08-12-2016 01:16
  
  Artists and housing activists say that safety matters, but crackdowns on warehouse spaces will displace already vulnerable communities The devastating Oakland warehouse fire has provoked threats of mass evictions of artist communities and low-income residents, raising concerns that real estate developers will exploit the tragedy to shutter old buildings and displace vulnerable tenants. Just days after the fire at the Ghost Ship warehouse that killed 36 people, city officials and community leader
  
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• Artificial Intelligence Is Changing The Ways We Analyze Books

  08-12-2016 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "While critics and book reviewers may continue to be an essential part of public cultural life, literary theorists who do not embrace AI will be at risk of becoming an exotic species – like the librarians who once used index cards to search for information."
  
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