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• Walker Art Center Artistic Director Fionn Meade Resigns

  16-01-2017 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Meade had served since March 2015 as the Walker’s artistic director, a newly created role at the museum. Prior to that, he had served for ten months as the Walker’s senior curator of cross-disciplinary platforms, another newly created role. He effectively took over as chief curator after Darsie Alexander left the institution to become director of New York’s Katonah Art Museum."
  
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• Bankrupt Big Apple Circus For Sale

  16-01-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The circus said its debts amounted to $8.3 million, against assets of $3.8 million, in its Chapter 11 filing. The Big Apple Circus began in 1977 and at its height staged more than 300 shows per year."
  
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• After 146 Years Ringling Brothers Circus To Fold Its Tents

  16-01-2017 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ringling Bros. ticket sales have been declining, but following the transition of the elephants off the road, we saw an even more dramatic drop. This, coupled with high operating costs, made the circus an unsustainable business for the company.”
  
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• Toronto Symphony Launches National Project To Make A Case For Canadian Composers

  16-01-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The list of partners includes virtually every major and many minor orchestras, with commissioned composers including Andrew Balfour, Chan Ka Nin, Kevin Lau, Nicole Lizée and John Rea among others. The orchestras themselves have been invited to choose the composers with whom they would like to work, with the TSO agreeing to perform the full complement of fanfares."
  
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• ‘The Odyssey of Collecting’: Phillips to auction works from the Joy of Giving Something foundation

  16-01-2017 22:00
  
  The Phillips auction house in New York, which recently appointed Vanessa Hallett, previously its worldwide head of photographs, to deputy chairman, Americas, has landed its most valuable photography collection consignment in its history: around 470 photographs, estimated at $10m, from the collection of the photography and arts education non-profit, the Joy of Giving Something foundation (JGS).The material comes from American financier Howard Stein, who began collecting photographs in the 1980s
  
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• Sadie Coles HQ celebrates 20th birthday and chases the Monday blues away

  16-01-2017 22:00
  
  Yesterday (17 January) may have been Blue Monday but it was a red-letter day for Sadie Coles who threw an extremely jolly lunch to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her gallery, which she opened in 1997 on Heddon Street with a show of John Currin. Serendipitously, Currins most recent paintings are currently to be seen at her Davies Street space.Gathered at the Rochelle Canteen in Shoreditch to toast two decades of Sadie Coles HQ, in cheerily unseasonal Campari-and-blood-orange cocktails, were t
  
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• Rothko and Rauschenberg to lead Christie’s London auction in March

  16-01-2017 22:00
  
  Post-war American art has taken centre stage in London in the past months thanks to blockbuster exhibitions at the Royal Academy (Abstract Expressionism, which closed on 2 January) and at Tate Modern (Robert Rauschenberg, which closes on 2 April). Now the market is following suit, with a work by each of these artists leading Christies Post-war and contemporary evening sale in London on 7 March.Mark Rothkos warm and vibrant No.1 (1949), estimated at 8m-12m, is part of a series of 12 works that w
  
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• Rothko and Rauschenberg to lead Christie’s London auction in February

  16-01-2017 22:00
  
  Post-war American art has taken centre stage in London in the past months thanks to blockbuster exhibitions at the Royal Academy (Abstract Expressionism, which closed on 2 January) and at Tate Modern (Robert Rauschenberg, which closes on 2 April). Now the market is following suit, with a work by each of these artists leading Christies Post-war and contemporary evening sale in London on 7 March.Mark Rothkos warm and vibrant No.1 (1949), estimated at 8m-12m, is part of a series of 12 works that w
  
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• What If The Future Is As Real As The Past?

  16-01-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Physicists have been suggesting as much since Einstein. It’s all just the space-time continuum. “So in the future, the sister of the past,” thinks young Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses, “I may see myself as I sit here now but by reflection from that which then I shall be.” Twisty!
  
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• Literature In The Time Of Obama (Is It A Thing?)

  16-01-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  What will we mean when someday we refer to Obama Lit? I think we’ll be discussing novels about authenticity, or about “problems of authenticity.” What does that mean?
  
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• How Money Changes What (And How) Writers Write

  16-01-2017 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Money taints everything, why not writing too? Once its value is determined by the marketplace rather than the writer or the reader, our relationship to literature becomes estranged. From bloated celebrity advances to rejected masterpieces, the market is more than just a poor arbiter of lasting quality: it tends to obscure that quality behind purely economic motivations. Good writing, we’re told time and time again, is born from love, not avarice. But this romantic picture of the writer, t
  
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• Piccadilly Circus: still London’s heart of darkness

  16-01-2017 18:41
  
  The famous illuminated advertisements have been switched off – but the junction will always be tinged with a neon-hued hint of sex and dangerThe young Alfred Hitchcock was so obsessed with the bright lights of London’s Piccadilly Circus that he gave them a starring role in no fewer than five of his films. In his eyes, the illuminated hoardings first introduced in 1908 to the West End’s great popular intersection symbolised everything glamorous and exciting about
  
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• With Help From a Cross-Institutional Collaboration, Markus Lüpertz Gets First U.S. Retrospective

  16-01-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Marking a momentous move for the 75-year-old German artist Markus Lüpertz —and the first-ever formal collaboration between two institutions with weight in Washington, D.C.—a pair of exhibitions on the neo-expressionist painter will open this spring at the Phillips Collection and … Read More
  
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• Manchester arts centre The Factory finally gets off the ground

  16-01-2017 14:04
  
  Plans for the long-awaited arts hub known as The Factory, the permanent home for the biennial Manchester International Festival, are moving ahead after Manchester City Council approved the scheme last week. The cube-shaped construction will be the first major UK commission for Rem Koolhaass OMA practice.
  The hub for art, theatre, dance and music events will form part of the new St Johns neighbourhood, to be built on the site of the former Granada TV studios in the city centre. Manchester City C
  
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• Munch’s $54m Girls on the Bridge will be highlight of billionaire's new museum in Potsdam

  16-01-2017 12:07
  
  Edvard Munchs Girls on the Bridge, which sold for $54.5m at Sothebys New York in November, will be one of the biggest attractions of a new private museum in Potsdam, Germany that is due to open to the public on 23 January.
  The painting, which will form part of the inaugural exhibition Modern Art Classics: Liebermann, Munch, Nolde, Kandinsky (until 28 May), is thought to have been bought by Hasso Plattner, the software billionaire behind the new Museum Barberini, according to sources. The museum
  
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