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• What Steven Murphy did next

  31-12-2016 22:00
  
  Whatever happened to Steven Murphy after he stepped down as chief executive of Christies (by mutual agreement with the board) in 2014? His exit raised eyebrowsduring his four-year tenure, Christies held its first auction in mainland China and expanded its online art salesbut the entrepreneur has now taken up another high-profile role, joining the board of Londons Victoria and Albert Museum. Murphys four-year stint as a trustee starts this month. A statement from the V&A, filling us in on hi
  
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• Ruin or Rebuild? Conserving heritage in an age of terrorism

  31-12-2016 22:00
  In the wake of the Talibans destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan in 2001, a decision was made. The giant stone statues had been so pulverised by explosives that Unesco said it was impossible to reconstruct them using original material. The statues niches were best left empty as a testament to the vandalism inflicted on the worlds patrimony.
  There was nothing unusual in this. Unescos decisions have long been guided by the 1964 Venice Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of M
  
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• Calder’s big Red Lily Pads head back to the Guggenheim

  31-12-2016 22:00
  
  Alexander Calders monumental mobile Red Lily Pads will return in February to the rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, to hang above its Frank Lloyd Wright-designed, oval-shaped fountain. Conservators are putting the finishing touches to the restoration of the 1956 painted steel sculpture ahead of its reinstallation for the exhibition celebrating the foundations 80th anniversary, Visionaries: Creating the Modern Guggenheim (10 February-6 September).The artist originally insta
  
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• Carmen Herrera: 'Men controlled everything, not just art'

  31-12-2016 11:00
  
  The 101-year-old, who sold her first painting aged 89, talks about hanging out with Sartre, Matisse and Picasso, patience – and her next big projectIt’s noon at Carmen Herrera’s home in downtown Manhattan. Time for a drink. “Would you like a cup of tea, or a scotch?” she asks. Scotch, please. She smiles. It’s the answer she was looking for. We rummage among the boxes – bottle after bottle of the finest single malts – before settling on the super-pe
  
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• New Year Honours: architect of African American museum knighted

  31-12-2016 10:59
  
  David Adjaye, the lead architect of the Smithsonian's new museum of African American History in Washington, DC, will receive a knighthood. A frequent collaborator with artists, past projects include working with Chris Ofili on the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo and The Upper Room installation (1999-2002). Ofili is also recognised in the New Year Honours list: the Turner prize-winning artist will receive a CBE.
  Another CBE will go to Jenny Waldman, the director of 14-18 Now, for leading the UK-wide
  
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• Alphonse Mucha’s Job: a vision of belle époque Paris

  31-12-2016 10:00
  
  The Czech painter’s 1896 work transcends advertising with its use of neo-classical imageryAlphonse Mucha’s poster for Job cigarette papers is one of the most famous works in design history. Taking its cue from a new kind of female beauty, its modern girl has hair with a life of its own. The tendrils look more like the floating tentacles of a jellyfish. Continue reading...
  
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• Fake News? Try Fake Conferences And Fake Scientific Journals

  31-12-2016 01:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "There are real, prestigious journals and conferences in higher education that enforce and defend the highest standards of scholarship. But there are also many more Ph.D.-holders than there is space in those publications, and those people are all in different ways subject to the “publish or perish” system of professional advancement. The academic journal-and-conference system is subject to no real outside oversight. Standards are whatever the scholars involved say they are."
  
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