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• Lygia Clark Is Now Represented by Luhring Augustine and Alison Jacques Gallery

  27-01-2017 23:34 via artnews.com
  New York’s Luhring Augustine and London’s Alison Jacques Gallery announced today that they will now co-represent the estate of Lygia Clark, the Brazilian artist who was the subject of a retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2014. … Read More
  
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• Art on film at Sundance, from Van Gogh’s landscapes to an orbiting VR vanitas

  27-01-2017 23:25
  
  Art is as much a part of the Sundance Film Festival (until 29 January) as an earnest political documentary or experiment in virtual reality would be. Sometimes, its the same thing.
  At the annual event in Park City, Utah, art and installations have a special place in the section called New Frontier, where you can find works like Pleasant Places by Davide Quayola. On a large screen, we see a high-definition landscape near St Remy in Provence, where Vincent van Gogh painted some of the last works
  
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• Critical Consensus: Here's The Best Movie At This Year's Sundance Festival

  27-01-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "It's easy to caricature the festival — earnest docs, white-people-problem ensemble dramedies and the like — yet Sundance often proves itself capable not just of launching interesting careers, but also of nudging the needle forward when it comes to onscreen diversity and representation."
  
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• Saloua Raouda Choucair, Pioneering Lebanese Painter and Sculptor, Dies at 100

  27-01-2017 22:11 via artnews.com
  Saloua Raouda Choucair, the trailblazing Lebanese artist whose richly colored abstract paintings and intricate, organically shaped sculptures in wood, clay, aluminum, and other materials were little known beyond her homeland until very recently, died in Beirut yesterday, according to CRG Gallery, which … Read More
  
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• Frick Collection Names Betty Eveillard Board Chair

  27-01-2017 21:56 via artnews.com
  The Frick Collection announced today that its board of trustees have elected Elizabeth “Betty” Mugar Eveillard to serve as the board’s new chair, beginning in June. She succeeds Margot Campbell Bogert, who has been the chair for the past 11 … Read More
  
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• LA's Hammer Museum To Build A Major Expansion

  27-01-2017 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This transformation will provide 60 percent more exhibition space including collection galleries and a works on paper gallery to highlight our growing collection of photographs and drawings,” Ann Philbin, the Hammer’s director, said in a statement.
  
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• Why Isn't The White House Petition To Save The NEA Collecting Signatures?

  27-01-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The petition, entitled 'Preserve the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities' has received hundreds of tweets from proud signees but the official count (at the time of writing) reads: '27 signed'."
  
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• Picasso’s final home in France sold to financier

  27-01-2017 21:07
  
  The last house where Pablo Picasso lived, in Mougins, France, near Cannes, has been sold to the Bermuda- and London-based financier Rayo Withanage, for an undisclosed amount. The artist lived there with his second wife, Jacqueline Roque, and her daughter from her first marriage, Catherine Hutin-Blay, from 1961 until his death in 1973. The sale, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, was finalised in late 2016. The property was sold by the Dutch real estate investor Tom Moeskops and BMB Alli
  
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• NY Times Pares Back Its Bestseller Lists And Comics People Aren't Happy

  27-01-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The Times abruptly announced that it’s gutting its best-seller lists, doing away with a host of existing lists in both the print and online editions of the paper as of February 5. Among the casualties are the Graphic Hardcover, Graphic Paperback, and Manga categories. The comics world is, understandably, quite unhappy with the development."
  
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• This Year's Oscar Nominations Owe Much To The Theatre

  27-01-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The sheer reach of film when compared with theatre is certainly the reason why when the two appear to together in a story, it is Hollywood that secures the dominant position over Broadway or the West End. But on Oscar night, when big-budget glamour is all the rage (even for intimate and independently made films), theatre can hold its head high knowing that Academy Award glory owes a debt to the stage, directly or indirectly, even if we have to remind people that this the case."
  
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• Richard Prince Just Can’t Stop Tweeting Videos of Cars Running Over Posters of Donald Trump!

  27-01-2017 20:31 via artnews.com
  For the past few days, Richard Prince has been going to the window in his studio in East Harlem and filming the street below, where cars continue to run over giant posters of Donald Trump’s face. This is just the latest … Read More
  
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• How Darwin's Book Changed The World

  27-01-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "If evolution (a word Darwin used sparingly in the book) occurs randomly, without the intervention of divine will and protection—natural selection, after all—then change itself can occur not just for the better, but for the worse. The world, so wonderfully capable of evolution, is just as capable of the opposite. It was a troubling idea; it was also, potentially, a liberating one."
  
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• Ghoulish Art On The Side Of A Brussels Building Has Residents Asking How Far Is Too Far

  27-01-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The two murals that appeared last weekend have made their anonymous artist the talk of the European capital, posing a familiar question about art expressly created to provoke: how far can it go before the outrage becomes unacceptable?"
  
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• Comcast Defies Cable Industry Trend And Adds Customers

  27-01-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The Philadelphia cable giant achieved a milestone in a sea of industry turbulence, adding a net 80,000 cable TV subscribers in the fourth quarter and 161,000 for the full year — defying the trend of customer cord-cutting that has concerned Wall Street. Comcast now has nearly 23 million cable TV subscribers, gaining on rival AT&T."
  
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• Stolen Australia: the ferocious anti-colonial art of Helen Johnson

  27-01-2017 19:24
  
  From fat landowners farting the national anthem to gentlemanly chaps passing round bribes, Helen Johnson tells the ugly truth about how Australia was carved upThere’s theft afoot at Helen Johnson’s new show. Landgrab, pilfering, palm greasing, misappropriation and straight-up burglary all sneak into Warm Ties, her suite of paintings that bring the crimes of Australia’s colonisers back to their place of origin.The exhibition takes place at the ICA, on the Mall in central London.
  
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• New York's Famous Half-Price Ticket Booth Finally Has An Indoor Location

  27-01-2017 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last summer, the Theatre Development Fund - hoping to add more New Yorkers to its largely tourist customer base - tried a pop-up of its TKTS booth at the location where Lincoln Center sells its own discounted day-of tickets. That arrangement has now been made permanent.
  
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• Still and All: Mark Rothko’s Deeply Nuanced Canvases are Encased in Parentheses, Both Intellectual and Spiritual

  27-01-2017 18:52 via artnews.com
  November 4, 2016–January 7, 2017, at Pace, New York Read More
  
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• Samson Young at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

  27-01-2017 18:39 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Is Book Collecting Anti-Social?

  27-01-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  "One of the concerns in the early 19th century regarding book collecting was the fear that by hoarding books, buyers were denying their fellow countrymen their patrimony. The image of the rich dilettante was one of the conspicuous consumer of books that would never be read – the old TBR pile – therefore keeping books out of an intellectual commons. The collector was often portrayed as having a kind of antisocial disease that kept him from contributing to the greater good by sharing h
  
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• HEAD OF PRESS and PUBLIC RELATIONS (U.S.)

  27-01-2017 18:29
  Bonhams is an international auction house specializing in the appraisal and sale of fine art, fine jewelry, antiques, fine wine, motor cars and all types of collectibles. Our U.S. galleries and salerooms are located in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
  The Head of Press and Public Relations (U.S.) is based in New York, and is part of the Global Communications Department, headquartered in London. You will work with the Global Director of Communications, and the New York-based CEO of
  
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• The Great Alan Sokal/Social Text Hoax: An Oral History, 20 Years On

  27-01-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Now that we're in the "post-fact" era, here's the story of the paper "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," how it got past peer review and into an academic journal, and how Sokal revealed his caper: "Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the window of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.)"
  
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• List Of Finalists To Lead The Musee d'Orsay

  27-01-2017 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Michel Draguet, the director-general of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, and Laurence des Cars, the director of Paris’s Musée de l’Orangerie, are among the four candidates shortlisted for the post of director of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The successful applicant will replace Guy Cogeval who has led the museum since 2008."
  
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• Quit Making Fun Of Academic Jargon - In The Age Of Trump, We Need It More Than Ever (Says Former Academic)

  27-01-2017 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rebecca Schuman (who, evidently, is still bitter over the Alan Sokal/Social Text incident), writes, "But now that we've just watched a sociopath with a fifth-grade vocabulary take the oath of office, ... I have no choice but to come to jargon's defense. Don't worry: I'll do it using small words." (The commenters, however, are not having it.)
  
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• Sex With Knives and Giraffes: Sergei Eisenstein Had a Mind for Drawing

  27-01-2017 16:59 via artnews.com
  Sergei Eisenstein was a cinematic visionary who, from his early prime in the 1920s, pioneered the use of montage and stirring Socialist Realism in epochal films such as Strike (1925) and Battleship Potemkin (1926). He was also, it turns out, the … Read More
  
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• Remember Lillian Hellman? She Was A Genuinely Important American Playwright, And It's Time We Remembered That

  27-01-2017 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  For decades she's been thought of less as a dramatist than as a steely literary figure (thanks to her own efforts) or an inveterate liar (thanks to Mary McCarthy's). DC's Arena Stage is spending this season trying to change that.
  
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• Rehearse, Ice Feet, Repeat: A Week In The Life Of A New York City Ballet Corps Dancer

  27-01-2017 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "With apologies to James Brown, the hardest working people in show business may well be ballet dancers. And at New York City Ballet, none work harder than the dancers in its lowest rank, the corps de ballet." Michael Cooper spent six days shadowing one corps member, and he found even that "exhausting." (includes video)
  
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• How Mel Gibson Went From Pariah To Oscar Nominee

  27-01-2017 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  "How did liberal Hollywood decide to once again embrace Gibson a few short years after leaked audiotapes and a domestic-violence accusation painted a picture of a him as an unhinged, abusive racist?" It's not just that his movies are still making money, Kevin Lincoln reports - a lot of people there genuinely like the guy and say those tapes give an inaccurate picture.
  
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• Everybody's Favorite Installation At LACMA Will Stay There Permanently

  27-01-2017 15:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Random International's Rain Room, the large-scale, interactive installation in which visitors experience an artificial downpour but never get wet, has been acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art."
  
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• 'Trump doesn't care about culture': how will his presidency affect the arts?

  27-01-2017 15:05
  
  From proposed funding cuts and tax policy changes to the impact Obamacare’s repeal could have on musicians, Trump’s tenure will be a sea change for manyA week into Trump’s presidency, arts and music policy advocates are still largely at a loss for what to expect from his administration.Related: Donald Trump calls Meryl Streep 'over-rated' after Golden Globes speech Culture is interesting to Trump to the extent that it reflects his status as a rich man Related: Protest songs: so
  
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• A Unisex Lead Role In Ballet? Yes, In Justin Peck's New Piece

  27-01-2017 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The choreographer has cast Ashly Isaacs as Robert Fairchild's understudy in The Times Are Racing. "I don't know if it's a first time, but it certainly feels like it might be one," says Peck. "[Isaacs] has stepped in a few times, and she looks great."
  
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• Morning Links: Rain Room Edition

  27-01-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Here's One Place Where The Number Of Boys Studying Ballet Is Soaring

  27-01-2017 14:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  The founder of the London Boys Ballet School says that he had only 15 students when the place opened 2½ years ago - and it now has 170.
  
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• Giants of German culture including Thomas Demand to feature in Fondazione Prada’s Venice Biennale show

  27-01-2017 14:47
  
  The Fondazione Prada will bring together three major figures from the German cultural scenethe photographer Thomas Demand, the stage and costume designer Anna Viebrock and the film-maker Alexander Klugefor an exhibition in its Venetian venue, CaCorner della Regina. Udo Kittelmann, the director of the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, will organise the show, titled The Boat is Leaking, the Captain Lied (13 May-26 November), which coincides with the 57th Venice Biennale.
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• Esa-Pekka Salonen Stays With London's Philharmonia Orchestra Indefinitely

  27-01-2017 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The composer/conductor has signed a rolling contract with the Philharmonia, where he will celebrate his tenth season as principal conductor and artistic advisor in 2017-28.
  
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• Korean Court Says Japan Can't Have Its Stolen Buddha Back. Why? Because Pirates, That's Why

  27-01-2017 14:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The 20-inch gilded bronze statue was taken from a Buddhist temple on Tsushima, a Japanese island halfway between the two countries, by South Koreans who also stole another statue from a Shinto shrine there." But a historic temple on the Korean coast argued that the idol had been looted by Japanese pirates in the 14th century, and a court in Daejeon agreed.
  
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• A Year Out Of Bankruptcy, Philly's Please Touch Museum Has A Revamped Mission

  27-01-2017 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Per a strategic plan developed with Michael Kaiser, "We will feel a little less like Disney and a little more like a place where children are really exploring all the wonderful things that will make them want to be learners the rest of their lives," says the Please Touch CEO.
  
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• Actor Mike Connors, Star Of 'Mannix', Dead At 91

  27-01-2017 13:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  "As the heroic good guy on the CBS action series, he was among the highest-paid TV actors in the early 1970s."
  
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• Refugees, religion and a bear with a Rubik's Cube – the week in art

  27-01-2017 13:18
  
  Turner winner Keith Tyson returns, while Wolfgang Tillmans and others protest against treatment of refugees – plus the rest of the week’s art happeningsKeith Tyson
  Wall drawings in which the Turner prize-winning creator of the Art Machine works out his ideas.
  • Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, 28 January–4 June. Maess Anand (@maess_drawings) with work of Lapo Simeoni (@laposimeoni) #iletlabiche #ilet #island #biennaledelabiche #biennale #laposimeoni #graffiti #graffitiart #guada
  
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• Nan Goldin’s Self-Portrait In Kimono With Brian: a study in domesticity

  27-01-2017 13:00
  
  Long before the age of the selfie, Goldin trained a camera on herself to illustrate the tension between private life and public portrayalThe photographer Nan Goldin and her boyfriend, Brian, are turned away from one another, their faces glumly set. Brian is as naked as the moment, bathed in an amber-rose light. Is this post-coital or post-argument? Continue reading...
  
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• Design and desires: how Vanessa Bell put the bloom in Bloomsbury

  27-01-2017 13:00
  
  She was best known as a member of the Bloomsbury group and sister of Virginia Woolf – but will the first major show of her artwork change her reputation?
  “Words are an impure medium,” Virginia Woolf wrote in a 1934 essay on the painter Walter Sickert. “Better far to have been born into the silent kingdom of paint.” These are not idle remarks on the difference between writing and painting, but an expression, perhaps, of sibling envy. Woolf’s older sister, Vanes
  
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• Keith Tyson and Richard Wilson: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  27-01-2017 10:30
  
  The Turner prize winner displays his epic wall drawings in Hastings, while the experimental sculptor’s new show reimagines spaceOnce there was a machine that made art. It belonged to Keith Tyson, who in the 1990s played with the idea of a completely random, automatic way of creating art when the digital age was still in its infancy. Two decades and a Turner prize later, Tyson is back with a display of the epic wall drawings in which he works out new ideas. These are pieces that veer betwee
  
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• Red in tooth and bored: unimpressed zoo animals – in pictures

  27-01-2017 08:00
  
  Eric Pillot photographs animals in captivity, amid poorly approximated backdrops of their natural habitats, for his award-winning series In Situ Continue reading...
  
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