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• US collectors send Dutch Old Masters on world tour

  29-12-2016 23:34
  The largest private collection of 17th-century Dutch painting will tour the globe from next month. The first survey of the Leiden Collection, assembled by the US commodities magnate Thomas Kaplan and his wife Daphne Recanati Kaplan, is due to open at the Muse du Louvre (22 February-20 May) as part of a season at the museum celebrating the Dutch Golden Age. A larger presentation of around 60 works is scheduled to travel to the Long Museum in Shanghai, the National Museum in Beijing and the Louvr
  
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• When The Science Of Mistakes Made A Big Mistake

  29-12-2016 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "This scientific study of scientific bias would ignite a romance of the mind, one that spanned several decades and ended up transforming both psychology and economics. Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky went on to show that mistakes in human judgment are not exceptions but the rule, resulting from a host of mental shortcuts and distortions that cannot be avoided. We do not behave like “rational actors,” as economists once presumed; rather, we’re predictably misguided—subject
  
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• Giant Portuguese cock takes flight for Beijing and Shanghai

  29-12-2016 22:00
  
  A giant cock by the Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos will be shown in Beijing as part of the celebrations to mark the Chinese New Year on 28 January 2017 and the beginning of the year of the rooster. It will then be displayed in Shanghai.The ten-metre-high sculpture, Pop Galo, which represents the symbol of the city of Barcelos in northern Portugal, has been on display on the Lisbon waterfront since last month. It consists of 17,000 hand-made tiles and is illuminated at night by 15,000 LED l
  
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• 2016: The Year in Review

  29-12-2016 18:05 via artnews.com
  The Most-Read Articles of 2016 From a visit with David Hockney to an examination of Trump’s views on art. The Year in, and Beyond, the Galleries of New York Andrew Russeth submits a relatively concise chronicle of highlights and a top ten.Sound Disposition … Read More
  
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• Between the lies: the Getty explores how form affects function in media

  29-12-2016 17:55
  
  An exhibit at the Getty in Los Angeles showcases the work of artists reworking and re-contextualizing imagery of newsmakers to uncover a deeper truthWhen the first copies of Marshall McLuhan’s landmark treatise, The Medium is the Massage, rolled off the presses in 1967, the typo in the last word was pointed out to the author, who thought it so thematically appropriate he asked them to keep it. The title made his point that the form media takes is as important as the content, and changed th
  
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• Between the lies: new exhibit explores how form affects function in media

  29-12-2016 17:55
  
  An exhibit at the Getty in Los Angeles showcases the work of artists reworking and recontextualizing imagery of newsmakers to uncover a deeper truthWhen the first copies of Marshall McLuhan’s landmark treatise, The Medium is the Massage, rolled off the presses in 1967, the typo in the last word was pointed out to the author, who thought it so thematically appropriate he asked them to keep it. The title made his point that the form media takes is as important as the content, and changed the
  
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• Norman Kleeblatt, Chief Curator of the Jewish Museum in New York, Will Depart Institution After Four Decades

  29-12-2016 17:42 via artnews.com
  After more than 40 years as an employee at the Jewish Museum in New York, first as a part-time conservator and finally as chief curator, Norman Kleeblatt is leaving the institution. The museum made the announcement today, saying that he will … Read More
  
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• What You Can’t See Can Hurt You: ‘Invisible Adversaries’ at Bard Considers the Power of Dark Societal Forces

  29-12-2016 16:38 via artnews.com
  June 25–September 18, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New YorkRead More
  
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• Chinneck's next London spectacle: a cracked façade in Fulham

  29-12-2016 15:26
  
  UK artist Alex Chinneck is making waves with his very festive sculpture, Fighting Fire with Ice Cream, on display in Granary Square in Kings Cross, London. The seven-metre tall installation, on show until 6 January, comprises a Christmas tree encased inside a vast block of resin (the piece looks like a gargantuan block of ice; there is even a surrounding puddle around the tree shrine which looks like its melting). Chinneck is known for his quirky creations such as From the Knees of my Nose
  
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• Alex Chinneck's next London spectacle: a cracked façade in Fulham

  29-12-2016 15:26
  
  UK artist Alex Chinneck is making waves with his very festive sculpture, Fighting Fire with Ice Cream, on display in Granary Square in Kings Cross, London. The seven-metre tall installation, on show until 6 January, comprises a Christmas tree encased inside a vast block of resin (the piece looks like a gargantuan block of ice; there is even a surrounding puddle around the tree shrine which looks like its melting). Chinneck is known for his quirky creations such as From the Knees of my Nose
  
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• Morning Links: Orange You Glad for Art? Edition

  29-12-2016 15:20 via artnews.com
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• Out from the shadows: why cruising had a cultural moment in 2016

  29-12-2016 13:00
  
  From an acclaimed novel to an immersive theater experience, the divisive sexual practice made a comeback in art amid heightened anxiety over sex and genderOn a Saturday afternoon shortly before Christmas, I found myself in the dungeon-like basement of a sex club in Manhattan to see a site-specific performance called Adonis Memories. It was an immersive theater experience based upon oral histories with patrons of the Adonis movie theater, the once opulent movie house-turned-gay porn theater locat
  
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• Passport to eternity: photographing the forgotten elderly of Ukraine

  29-12-2016 08:00
  
  Alexander Chekmenev was tasked with making new passport photos in eastern Ukraine – and ended up with a powerfully humane portrait series. As the images are published 20 years later, he explains why old people deserve better careAlexander Chekmenev’s Ukrainian passport applicants – in picturesTimes were tumultuous in post-Soviet eastern Ukraine when Alexander Chekmenev started out as a young photographer in his home city. “Like the whole country, Luhansk in the mid-1990s
  
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• Alexander Chekmenev's Ukrainian passport applicants – in pictures

  29-12-2016 08:00
  
  After the fall of the Soviet Union, all Ukrainians had to get a new passport – and Alexander Chekmenev was on hand to take their photos. The snatched extra shots he took are remarkable in their honesty and tendernessPassport to eternity: photographing the forgotten elderly of UkraineContinue reading...
  
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• Paintings reveal early signs of cognitive decline, claims study

  29-12-2016 06:00
  
  Psychologists believe they can identify progressive changes in work of artists who went on to develop Alzheimer’s diseaseThe first subtle hints of cognitive decline may reveal themselves in an artist’s brush strokes many years before dementia is diagnosed, researchers believe.The controversial claim is made by psychologists who studied renowned artists, from the founder of French impressionism, Claude Monet, to the abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning.Related: Strobe lighting pro
  
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