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• Researchers Are on the Hunt for Missing Jacob Lawrence Panels

  09-01-2017 22:37 via artnews.com
  Over at the Magazine Antiques, which is owned by the same company as ARTnews, Elizabeth Hutton Turner has a story about scholars who are currently looking to unite the 30 panels that make up Jacob Lawrence’s “Struggle” series, which takes a look … Read More
  
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• College Art Association Gives Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold Awards of Distinction

  09-01-2017 22:35 via artnews.com
  The College Art Association announced that Kerry James Marshall and Faith Ringgold are among those receiving its 2017 Awards of Distinction, which are given annually artists, critics, curators, and historians who have had a significant impact on the art world. … Read More
  
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• Three lucky artists selected to live and work in Alexander Calder’s Loire Valley studio

  09-01-2017 22:33
  
  Three artists have been chosen this year to move in to Alexander Calders former home studio in Sach, in Frances Loire Valley, which the artist designed and built in 1962. The three-month Atelier Calder residencies, organised by the US-based Calder Foundation, provide artists who produce three-dimensional works with a stipend for living expenses, funding and technical support to create new work. Our mission is to offer the time and space to make work, so although we do open the studio to the pub
  
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• Alison Gass Appointed Director of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art

  09-01-2017 22:20 via artnews.com
  The University of Chicago announced today that Alison Gass has been appointed the Dana Feitler Director of the Smart Museum of Art. Starting May 1, Gass will lead the museum’s exhibitions, collaborative projects, and public and educational programs.Since 2014, Gass has … Read More
  
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• William Kentridge on early cinema and what his main talent is

  09-01-2017 22:00
  There are thousands of drawings in Thick Time, William Kentridges solo exhibition closing this weekend (15 January) at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. But, as the South African artist explains, they are embedded in video installations that also pay tribute to early cinema and theatrical performance. In our interview with Kentridge, before the show opened, the artist remembers a time when he was more conservative than anyone and the idea of putting a film on a wall of an art gallery was anathe
  
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• Our guide to the most important new museums and expansions in 2017

  09-01-2017 22:00
  
  Museum Macan, Jakarta
  What: Indonesia gets its first Museum of Modern and contemporary art, based in the countrys capital, Jakarta.
  Architect: London-based Met Studio Design
  How big: 43,000 sq. ft
  How much: undisclosed
  Funder: The museum founder, the businessman Haryanto Adikoesoemo
  When: March
  What they say: Museum Macan will be the first institution of its kind in Indonesia, providing public access to a significant and growing collection of Modern and contemporary art from Indonesia and around
  
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• London exhibitions: James Ensor’s carnivalesque paintings crackle at the RA while Anselm Kiefer offers an awe-inspiring gloom-fest at White Cube, plus much more

  09-01-2017 22:00
  
  Intrigue: James Ensor by Luc Tuymans, Royal Academy of Arts (until 29 January)Luc Tuymans first encountered the great, grotesque James Ensor painting Intrigue, which gives this exhibition its title, when he was just a teenager and found it a very fearful thing to look at. By curating this most intriguing of shows, Tuymanshimself no slouch in the fear departmentamply fulfills his aim to reactivate the odd, uncategorisable and also presciently-Expressionist work of his fellow Belgian. The ghoulis
  
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• Carve female sculptors’ names with pride | Letters

  09-01-2017 20:55
  
  Although pleased to read Helen Pidd’s otherwise excellent article on the number of statues of women under consideration (Britain to celebrate pioneering women with three new statues, 9 January) the three women on the shortlist as sculptors of the Emmeline Pankhurst statue in Manchester are overlooked. One space on the shortlist was specifically reserved for a sculptor who has not been commissioned to produce a public statue. This is Amelia Rowcroft, renowned for her portraits and figures i
  
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• ‘Give Me Yesterday’ at Fondazione Prada, Milan

  09-01-2017 20:45 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday Read More
  
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• Banner Year: At a Time of Heated Race Relations in America, Dread Scott Wades Into the Fray

  09-01-2017 19:38 via artnews.com
  For the first time in quite a while in America, people (on both sides of the political fence) are holding up signs. In a world flooded with pictures, a world where, for decades, the intellectual and populist conversation has focused … Read More
  
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• Harvard Art Museums Hires Makeda Best Curator of Photography

  09-01-2017 19:06 via artnews.com
  The Harvard Art Museums announced today that it has appointed Makeda Best as curator of photography. Best will leave her current position as assistant professor of visual studies at the California College of the Arts and take up her new … Read More
  
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• Harvard Art Museums Hires Makeda Best as Curator of Photography

  09-01-2017 19:06 via artnews.com
  The Harvard Art Museums announced today that it has appointed Makeda Best as curator of photography. Best will leave her current position as assistant professor of visual studies at the California College of the Arts and take up her new … Read More
  
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• Wannabe art students invited to enrol at Tate Modern school

  09-01-2017 17:10
  
  Collaboration with Central Saint Martins aims to highlight ‘systematic assault’ on arts education in BritainAnyone who has ever wondered what art students get up to all day can find out this week as Tate Modern hosts to a temporary school to which anyone can enrol.The This Is An Art School project has been created by students, staff and alumni of Central Saint Martins on the fifth floor of Tate Modern’s new extension. Continue reading...
  
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• Morning Links: Inauguration Day Strike Edition

  09-01-2017 14:56 via artnews.com
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• The 'art strike' against Trump is futile – cultural elites cannot effect change

  09-01-2017 13:45
  
  Calling on cultural institutions to close on inauguration day only serves to make the likes of Cindy Sherman and Richard Serra feel good about themselvesIt’s coming. The date is less than a fortnight away. 20 January is a day for the history books – the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States. How to mark it? A day in bed with a bottle of tequila and some seriously depressing country music sounds about right – and in a sense that is what some of America&r
  
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• Central Saint Martins creates temporary art school at Tate Modern

  09-01-2017 12:44
  
  A temporary art school created by the students, staff and alumni of Central Saint Martins opens at Tate Modern's Switch House space this week (until 15 January). The workshops, lectures and classes aim to draw attention to the forces "currently threatening arts education" and "what resistance we can offer", according to the organisers. 
  A campaign to persuade the UK government to include art and other creative subjects in the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) is ongoing. Critics argue tha
  
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• Beethoven in dreadlocks … the show that celebrates great myths about the composer

  09-01-2017 08:00
  
  Did deafness liberate him? Was his African ancestry suppressed? Did he write a musical communist manifesto? A new show in Paris revels in – and debunks – the many myths surrounding BeethovenIn the summer of 1812, Goethe and Beethoven were walking arm in arm through the streets of the Bohemian spa resort of Teplitz when their path was blocked by a gaggle of oncoming dukes and duchesses. “They must make way for us, not the other way around,” composer told poet. But Goethe,
  
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• A Bored Audience Misbehaves, Is Rude. Write Them Off? Or...

  09-01-2017 07:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  How do you know what an audience is really thinking? Polite applause only tells you so much. Lagging ticket sales aren't precise about cause. Focus groups aren't reliable. So then there's this story about millennials' reaction to an O'Neill play they were attending:
  About two scenes into the play, the students began to grumble among themselves. It was clear they felt they didn’t relate to the story. They were bored, and they resented being forced to attend a three-hour play. But instead of
  
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• Vernon Ah Kee review – racism and politics dominate show that should not be dismissed

  09-01-2017 01:38
  
  National Art School, SydneyThat the pain and ugliness of racism comes to the surface in jarring ways is testament to the power of the Indigenous artist’s workIt would be a mistake to consider the work of Vernon Ah Kee as purely political in motivation. The 50 year old artist, whose work is the subject of a major survey exhibition at the National Art School Gallery as a part of Sydney festival, expresses his approach in a forthright and uncomplicated manner: this is not history, he says, th
  
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• Untitled(He Day Dreamed about When There Was No Earth Sky Monopolies Cartels Or One God That Fixed All The Prices)

  09-01-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i thought he should go see her. she was the one who responded to his texts. he usually had to text her and then she would text him. sometimes, she would text him with a thought she had about herself or someone else and he would feel that there was hope. he didn’t want to see her, not now. he wanted to see her later. she won’t be there, then. she ‘s here for another day. he’s stubborn. he get’s an unhappy thought and then there’s another unhappy thought, and be
  
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