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• Performa Adds Two Board Members, Names Richard Chang Board President

  02-02-2017 23:38 via artnews.com
  Performa’s board announced today the appointment of two new members, Joyce Liu and Ivan Pun, while also naming current board member Richard Chang to the position of board president. Toby Devan Lewis and Rashid Johnson will continue to serve as the board’s … Read More
  
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• Why Philosophy Has Fallen Out Of The Public Sphere

  02-02-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Academic life has become more professionalised. They write for each other, not for the general reader. Academic political philosophy ­today, for example, has zero influence on the practice of politics.” In the 1980s it was said that Margaret Thatcher was interested in Popper, Friedrich Hayek and Michael Oakeshott. “I doubt now,” says Gray, “whether any politician could name a leading academic philosopher. No one would know who they were.”
  
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• Vera Lynn Releases A New Album... At Age 100

  02-02-2017 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The singer is known as the forces' sweetheart for entertaining troops during World War Two to boost morale. Dame Vera - 100 in March - currently holds the record for being the oldest living artist to get a top 20 UK album."
  
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• Mississippi Arts Commission Survives Attempt By Republican Legislature To Offload It

  02-02-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Yesterday, two bills intended to fold the duties of the Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC) into the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) died in both the Senate and House Appropriations Committees due to the fact that they were not brought up by either chairman. January 31 was the deadline for bills to come out of committee."
  
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• Dia Art Foundation Acquires Anne Truitt Works

  02-02-2017 22:19 via artnews.com
  Adding new hues and historical associations to its canonical collection of American minimalism, the Dia Art Foundation has acquired six works by Anne Truitt that will go on long-term view at Dia:Beacon in upstate New York in May. The five sculptures … Read More
  
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• A Winged Sphinx, a Reef Made of Hair, and More Will Take Over the High Line in a New Group Show

  02-02-2017 22:06 via artnews.com
  Jon Rafman, Guan Xiao, and others will show recent work about humans, technology, and nature. Read More
  
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• Wrong in the right way: Kenneth Goldsmith on why Picabia’s false Modernism feels so true

  02-02-2017 22:00
  
  On the heels of a US election season riddled with cries of fake and rigged, it is worth remembering that certain Modern artists embraced those exact qualities as being more truthful than truth itself. None did this more so than Francis Picabia (1879-1953).From the outset, he was blatantly fraudulent. Reeking of unabashed insincerity, he cannibalised every -ism he encountered, chewed it up and joyfully spit it back into the faces of the establishment. David Bowie used to say that he wasnt really
  
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• Urs Fischer’s Kiss provides anger therapy at Sadie Coles

  02-02-2017 22:00
  
  Blame Trump, blame Brexit, blame the bleak midwinter blues. Whatever the cause, love was certainly not in the air at Sadie Coles on the night of 1 February, when Urs Fischer invited visitors to re-mould his larger-than-life plasticine replica of Rodins The Kiss. It all began quite genteellyin honour of the Brexit vote simultaneously unfolding in Parliament that evening, your correspondent embedded a euro into the back of the lovers accompanied by the words RIP. But as the private view unfolded,
  
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• TEFAF New York’s spring edition looks to offer solid bets in an uncertain world

  02-02-2017 22:00
  
  TEFAF New York, which returns to the Park Avenue Armory from 4-8 May, has released a list of exhibitors for its second US edition. Unlike the fall fairwhich was devoted to work from antiquity through the 19th centurythe spring edition is focused on (but not limited to) Modern and contemporary art, with the tableau rounded out by design and decorative arts, Oceanic and African artefacts, and antiquities.Under the direction of fair organizers Jeff Rabin and Michael Plummer, whose Spring Masters f
  
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• Scottish artist Douglas Gordon to receive France’s highest honour

  02-02-2017 22:00
  
  Douglas Gordon will receive the French title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres at the French embassy in Berlin, where he lives. The Scottish-born artist was awarded the title in 2012 and will accept the medal of honour from the French Ambassador to Germany at a private ceremony on 15 February.Commandeur is the highest decoration granted to cultural figures by the French government. Only a handful of artists have received the award, which was established in 1957, including William Kentridge,
  
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• “Experimentation and bold moves”: Ben Genocchio tells us what to expect from the Armory Show

  02-02-2017 22:00
  
  Change is coming to New Yorks oldest fair for new art. Since Ben Genocchio took over as director of the Armory Show (2-5 March) in late 2015 (from Noah Horowitz, who left to become director of the Americas for Art Basel), he has been on a mission to revitalise the format with the hope, he says, of putting the focus back on the art.Genocchio, a former art critic and editorial director of Artnet News, decided to take the Armory Shows 200,000 sq. ft industrial venue, Piers 92 and 94 on the citys f
  
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• Call for Italy’s quake-stricken works to return home for treatment

  02-02-2017 22:00
  
  In the hinterland of Italys Marche region, which was devastated by severe earthquakes last August and October fears are growing that local heritage will be preserved elsewhere and never return. Several officials in these hilltop towns are highly critical of the Italian culture ministry and its central crisis unit, which has overseen rescue efforts since the first quake. Mayors and representatives of all 57 administrations in the province of Macerata have written to the ministry demanding that w
  
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• Bamiyan Cultural Centre gets under way

  02-02-2017 22:00
  
  A cultural centre at the Unesco World Heritage site in Afghanistan where the Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas is due to open to the public in summer 2018. Construction began in September on the 2,450 sq. m building by the Argentinian firm M2R Arquitectos, which beat more than 1,000 other entrants in an international design competition. Formed by a system of negative spaces carved into the ground, the complex will house two galleries dedicated to Afghan archaeology, a performance hall and a
  
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• In Memorian: Dore Ashton, 1928–2017

  02-02-2017 20:58 via artnews.com
  “I am a proud philistine,” Dore wrote on a small piece of paper she gave me at her home in New York. It was one of those evenings we used to spend together discussing literature, poetry, and art. Of course, … Read More
  
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• In Memoriam: Dore Ashton, 1928–2017

  02-02-2017 20:58 via artnews.com
  “I am a proud philistine,” Dore wrote on a small piece of paper she gave me at her home in New York. It was one of those evenings we used to spend together discussing literature, poetry, and art. Of course, … Read More
  
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• John Armleder at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

  02-02-2017 20:51 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Residency Program Returns to Storm King Art Center

  02-02-2017 20:22 via artnews.com
  For the third year running, Storm King Art Center in upstate New York will offer a residency program, hosted in partnership with the Shandaken Project, from June through September. This year’s program, which largely remains unchanged from past years, will be bolstered … Read More
  
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• The drop in museum visitors reveals a nation without aspiration or hope | Jonathan Jones

  02-02-2017 18:53
  
  A government report shows that visitor numbers to UK museums and galleries are down by millions. This is not due to distracted young minds – it is a symptom of economic strifeBritain’s leading museums and galleries, according to figures released by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, have dramatically lost visitors. Museums including the Tate galleries, National Gallery, V&A and British Museum collectively clocked up 47.6 million people from April 2015 to March 2016 &nda
  
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• New Museum Names Paul Jackson Communications Director

  02-02-2017 17:01 via artnews.com
  After eight years as a communications director at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Paul Jackson will be leaving to be the communications director for the New Museum, ARTnews has learned. He starts on Monday, just ahead of … Read More
  
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• Barnes Foundation Appoints Cindy Kang Assistant Curator

  02-02-2017 16:32 via artnews.com
  The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia has hired Cindy Kang as its first-ever assistant curator, starting February 27. She comes from New York’s Bard Graduate Center, where she is currently associate curator.Kang was selected for the position at the Barnes for her knowledge … Read More
  
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• Barnes Foundation Appoints Cindy Kang As Assistant Curator

  02-02-2017 16:32 via artnews.com
  The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia announced today that Cindy Kang will be the museum’s first-ever assistant curator, starting February 27. She comes from New York’s Bard Graduate Center, where she is currently associate curator.Kang was selected for the position at … Read More
  
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• Donald deserves an exhibition nod—for his sexist comments

  02-02-2017 16:17
  
  Donald Trump has (unwittingly) contributed to a major exhibition focusing on male and female identity at the Stdel museum in Frankfurt. The show, entitled The Battle of the Sexes  (until 19 March), explores gender roles in art and society between 1860 and 1945 through works by Edvard Munch and Frida Kahlo, among others. But in a surprise turn, the US president is thanked in the exhibition catalogue. The curators, Felicity Korn and Felix Krmer, explain why Donald deserves their gr
  
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• Morning Links: The Groundhog Day Edition

  02-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World review – America's native son finally comes home

  02-02-2017 15:00
  
  The Native American artist’s most trenchant political statement remains his choice to live abroad – making his first US retrospective all the more potent Jimmie Durham’s retrospective, At the Center of the World, curated for the Hammer Museum by Anne Ellegood, landed almost prophetically in the aftermath of a big American week: the new president loosed the dogs of oil on the Standing Rock water protectors, withdrew funds from reproductive service providers, and pulled up the dr
  
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• 1:54 African Art Fair Announces 2017 Exhibitors, Participating Artists List

  02-02-2017 14:00 via artnews.com
  The organizers of the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair announced today its list of participating exhibitors for its upcoming third edition in New York, which will concidence with Frieze New York and run from May 5 to May 7, with … Read More
  
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• Q is for quality: share your artwork now

  02-02-2017 11:11
  
  For this month’s art project, curator of Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity Quintin Colville invites you to share your artwork on the theme of qualityStriking a pose: your art on the theme of Portraiture In her own time, Emma Hamilton was never considered a “woman of Quality” – the term often used to describe the elite in 18th-century Britain. Born into poverty in rural Cheshire in 1765, the daughter of a blacksmith, society’s gatekeepers never considered her on
  
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• Out of many, one people: Jamaica in the 1890s – in pictures

  02-02-2017 08:00
  
  An archive of images from 19th-century Jamaica shows a country freed from the bonds of slavery but still under white rule Continue reading...
  
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• New Zealand's surprising history of art crime: 'I continue to be flabbergasted'

  02-02-2017 02:34
  
  Global art crime is big business, and New Zealand is not exempt. It has its fair share of mystery disappearances, audacious forgers and stolen European artFrom stolen Italian masterpieces ending up on the walls of a provincial South Island gallery, to a steady supply of fake Dick Frizzells being sold online, New Zealand’s history has been rife with art crime.And the shady world of fakes, forgeries and fraudsters in the South Pacific island nation has for the first time been subjected to a
  
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• Decoding Beyoncé's pregnancy pic: a remix of rococo and Flemish influences

  02-02-2017 02:27
  
  It references European decadence, religious iconography and Latin American funeral traditions, painting her as a modern symbol of virtue and authorityBeyoncé’s pregnancy: our distraction from the dumpster fire that is realityToday, on the first day of Black History Month in the US, Beyoncé announced on Instagram that she’s pregnant – and with twins, no less. It was a bright spot on the otherwise grim landscape of the past week and a half in news. The photo is forw
  
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