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• How To Rethink Times Square To Make It Better

  14-12-2016 23:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The difficulty begins with the shape of Times Square—it’s narrow and lies in a slight dip in the land, increasing the feeling of crowdedness even when the space isn’t that crowded. Intuition might tell you that, to alleviate that sensation, a designer should open up the area as much as possible. Dykers explains that Snøhaetta’s approach is the opposite; the firm’s designers have found that the creation of well-placed obstacles is the key to unlocking the pot
  
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• Sex changes: ancient Egypt and contemporary feminism at the Brooklyn Museum

  14-12-2016 23:48
  
  Can contemporary feminism help us understand ancient Egypt? Absolutely, according to a new long-term collection exhibition opening at the Brooklyn Museum today, 15 December. A Womans Afterlife: Gender Transformation in Ancient Egypt (through 2018)part of the museums exhibition cycle A Year of Yes, which celebrates the tenth anniversary of its Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Artanswers a long-term problem that puzzled Egyptologists before feminist ideas were present, says the shows curat
  
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• Eric van Hove at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt

  14-12-2016 23:39 via artnews.com
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• America's Got Talent Star Jackie Evancho To Sing At Trump Inaugural

  14-12-2016 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 16-year-old said she was "so excited" to be performing at the ceremony on 20 January. She finished second on the TV talent show in 2010.
  
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• Tasmanian collector David Walsh unveils his vision for an Aboriginal art park on Hobart’s waterfront

  14-12-2016 22:21
  
  A former industrial site on the waterfront in Hobart, Tasmania, will be transformed into a vast culture park celebrating Aboriginal heritage under plans proposed by officials at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona).
  David Walsh, the gambling millionaire behind the subterranean Mona museum in Tasmania, is backing the vast new arts and heritage complex based at Macquarie Point.
  The project encompasses a 650-metre wide art park incorporating a Tasmanian Aboriginal history centre, and nine fire and
  
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• Standing still to move forward

  14-12-2016 22:00
  
  The current exhibition Enacting Stillness at the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation in New York (until 13 January 2017) shows work by around 15 contemporary artistsincluding Joan Jonas, Bruce Nauman and Claudia Joskowiczwhose time-based performances emphasise the value of remaining still as a form of resistance or protest. In her video projection, A Needle Woman (1999-2001), the artist Kimsooja draws a stark contrast between stillness and the whirlwind of motion in urban life as she stands o
  
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• Richard Gray Gallery to Open 5,000-Square-Foot Space in Chicago

  14-12-2016 20:57 via artnews.com
  Today, Richard Gray Gallery, which has outposts in Chicago and New York, announced its expansion in the Windy City with a new 5,000-square-foot exhibition space that is set to open next year in the West Town neighborhood northwest of downtown Chicago.The new … Read More
  
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• Moving the needle: the punk badges that defined the 1970s music scene

  14-12-2016 20:13
  
  Image as Virus, the world’s first exhibition of punk badges, highlights the work of Better Badges, a company that produced some of the most celebrated pins of the 70s. Founder Joly MacFie talks through some of the greatest Continue reading...
  
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• Jennifer Scott appointed first female director of Dulwich Picture Gallery

  14-12-2016 18:24
  Scott leaves the directorship of the Holburne Museum in Bath after just two years to head the historic south London institutionJennifer Scott, the director of the Holburne Museum in Bath, has been appointed the first female director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery since it opened in 1817. Related: Beyond the Moomins: Tove Jansson's art gets major UK exhibitionContinue reading...
  
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• Patricia Barbizet Will Step Down as CEO of Christie’s, With Guillaume Cerutti Tapped as Replacement

  14-12-2016 18:19 via artnews.com
  Just two years after taking the helm of Christie’s, Patricia Barbizet will leave her post as CEO effective January 1, 2017, the auction house announced in a press release. Her replacement will be Guillaume Cerutti, who is currently president of … Read More
  
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• Sandy Nairne portrait at NPG is by American artist Chuck Close

  14-12-2016 17:30
  
  Portrait of former director of National Portrait Gallery will be first big work by Close to enter public collection in UKA huge portrait of the former director of the National Portrait Gallery, Sandy Nairne, is to be the first important work by American artist Chuck Close to enter a public collection in Britain.Close is one of America’s most influential portrait artists, known for his gigantic mosaic-patterned works, which he paints from photographs. Continue reading...
  
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• Sotheby’s Hires Rauschenberg Foundation CEO Christy MacLear, Aiming to Expand Advisory Services for Artist Estates

  14-12-2016 16:48 via artnews.com
  Barely over a week ago we were here telling you that Sotheby’s had acquired an anti-forgery firm, furthering its status as an auction house that would keep on adding appendages to its business until it reached full vertical integration. Instead of … Read More
  
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• ‘Friends and Enemies’ Gather Amid Silence and Gold for Marina Abramovic’s 70th Birthday

  14-12-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  Imagine an ascent up the Guggenheim Museum’s spiral rotunda, stopping along the way to stare into Agnes Martin’s grids and fields while wearing noise-cancelling headphones. Silence sets the scene, and gold leaf is flaking from museum-goers’ lips—for reasons that only later become clear—as they whisper … Read More
  
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• Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh Acquires a Kerry James Marshall

  14-12-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  I come bearing glorious news to start this day: the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has acquired a 2016 Kerry James Marshall painting. The work in question, a five-by-four-foot slice of thick PVC panel pictured above (click to enlarge … Read More
  
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• Sandy Nairne up close with Chuck

  14-12-2016 14:33
  
  The National Portrait Gallery in London has done the double by acquiring the first major work by the US artist Chuck Close to enter a US public collection (the piece just so happens to depict the NPGs illustrious former director Sandy Nairne who was at the helm from 2002 to 2015). Closes six-foot tall, watercolour print portrait of Nairne is based on a large-format colour Polaroid photograph taken in the 20x24 Studio in New York. The artist has had a relationship with Nairne dating back to the g
  
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• Morning Links: Marijuana Acquisition Edition

  14-12-2016 14:33 via artnews.com
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• Forget the modernists – Turner and Stubbs are Britain's true radicals | Jonathan Jones

  14-12-2016 13:59
  
  Property developer Harry Hyams has left his art collection to the nation in his will, and – Victorian sentimentality aside – it contains some of the brightest jewels of British cultureThank God for private collectors. They follow their own tastes and enthusiasms, don’t have to listen to critics or follow fashion and, in buying the art they love, end up enriching us all.Harry Hyams was that kind of collector. It has been revealed that this multimillionaire property developer &nd
  
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• Young artists involved in creating Stik mural in Gdansk call for its return

  14-12-2016 13:29
  
  A group of young people in Gdansk are calling for the return of a public mural they helped create with the British street artist Stik in the Polish city in 2011 that was cut into pieces and ended up for sale in a London gallery. They have launched a petition demanding that the owner of the gallery, Andrew Lamberty, a star of Channel 4s Four Rooms, do the right thing and send the work back.The bitter dispute began in 2014, according to the petition, when the work was removed without Stiks permis
  
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• Tattoo parlour for senior citizens among works revealed for Sculpture Projects Münster 2017

  14-12-2016 09:08
  
  The organisers of Sculpture Projects Mnster have revealed further details about the artist projects lined up for next years public art show in Germany (10 June-1 October). More than 30 works, encompassing sculptures and performance pieces, will be included in the fifth edition of the influential exhibition that takes place every 10 years.The veteran, Chicago-born artist Michael Smith will set up a fully operational tattoo studio that, he says, will target a particular demographic: the
  
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• CalArts Names SUNY Purchase Art School Dean Ravi Rajan President, Replacing Steven Lavine

  14-12-2016 04:00 via artnews.com
  Nearly 18 months after it was announced that Steven Lavine would step down as the president of the California Institute of the Arts, the Valencia-based art school has found a replacement, its board of directors announced this evening. Ravi S. Rajan, the dean … Read More
  
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• Director of Programmes

  14-12-2016 01:13
  Director of Programmes
  Salary Package:  Competitive, depending on skills and experience
  Location:  London
  Somerset House Trust is seeking to appoint a Director of Programmes. This new role will enable the organisation to realise its vision as a centre for the creation and presentation of contemporary arts and culture, delivered through the combination of an inspirational home for artists & creative enterprise and a compelling public programme.
  Currently attracting over 3 mill
  
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• Marc Quinn sculptures to go on show at Sir John Soane's Museum

  14-12-2016 01:00
  
  Artist renowned for gold Kate Moss statue made 10 works for first contemporary art display specially created for London venueMarc Quinn, who famously made a yoga-themed gold statue of Kate Moss, is to show 10 new sculptures at the Sir John Soane’s Museum in the first display by a contemporary artist created specially for the venue.The artist said he scoured the museum in London – which is bursting with Roman sculptures, Hogarth paintings, an alabaster sarcophagus and the Georgian tom
  
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