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• Spring/Break to Hold 2017 Edition in Two Floors of an Office Building in Times Square

  06-02-2017 23:52 via artnews.com
  For the past two years, the Spring/Break art fair has been run out of Skylight at Moynihan Station, an event space in the James A. Farley Building, a post office across the street from Penn Station. Now it is moving (perhaps due … Read More
  
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• NADA New York Ticket Sales to Benefit ACLU, International Exhibitors

  06-02-2017 23:02 via artnews.com
  The New Art Dealers Alliance announced today that half of the proceeds from ticket sales to its 2017 New York fair will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union, to help with the recent bump in ACLU’s workload. The … Read More
  
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• The Met's online free-for-all

  06-02-2017 22:00
  
  Today (7 February), the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that over 375,000 images of works of art from its collection are now available online for unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use in a new initiative, Open Access. Increasing public access to the collection has been a key priority for the museum over the past decade, Thomas Campbell, the museums director and chief executive, said at a press conference today. While the museums collection includes two million works sp
  
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• The Doom Generation and Jumbotrons That Never Sleep: Kayla Guthrie Premieres A New Video

  06-02-2017 22:00 via artnews.com
  Multidisciplinary artist Kayla Guthrie released a video today for her self-released new single “Snowflake,” which features footage shot in Times Square, a red cowboy hat, corpse paint, and an ensemble cast including the artist Kembla Pfahler.“The video was shot and directed on … Read More
  
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• Merce Cunningham explains his process

  06-02-2017 22:00
  The ultimate collaborator, Merce Cunningham is known as much for his genre-bending choreography as he is for the friendships and working relationships he built with visual artists, composers and film-makers over his career. Audiences today can get an idea of these wide-ranging collaborations at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the MCA Chicago, where the joint exhibition dedicated to the late choreographer opens this week. Here, Cunningham explains his working process, and how all the ele
  
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• Images of Gauguin in Tahiti discovered in photo album

  06-02-2017 22:00
  
  The only known photographs of Gauguin in Polynesia have been discovered in an album recently acquired by a Munich-based dealer. The album includes an image of a young Tahitian woman being kissed by the middle-aged artist, whose friend Dr Gouzer, a French ships doctor, is also shown with a local woman. The images provide a fresh insight into Gauguins life in Tahiti in 1896.
  Two albums of Tahitian photographs taken by Jules Agostini came up for sale in a French provincial auction in July 2015. On
  
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• Helen Frankenthaler Foundation names head of catalogue raisonné project

  06-02-2017 22:00
  
  The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation is planning a catalogue raisonn of the American artist's work and has hired the art historian and curator Douglas Dreishpoon to direct the project.Dreishpoon, who takes the role in March, comes from the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York, where he is chief curator emeritus. There, in 2014, he organised the exhibition Giving Up Ones Mark, which looked at Frankenthalers work from the 1960s and 1970s.
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• Artist’s portrait of elephant killed by poachers brings attention to the cost of the ivory trade

  06-02-2017 22:00
  
  The San Diego, California-based artist Wendy Maruyama is bringing attention to the plight of elephants and other animals slaughtered for their tusks with her recent work, the wildLIFE Project, now travelling across the United States. Maruyama was inspired to create the wildLIFE Project after meeting with wildlife advocatesand elephantson a trip to Kenya.I have had a lifelong fascination with wild animals ever since I was a child, says Maruyama, a professor emeritus of applied design, furniture
  
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• Cathy Wilkes at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

  06-02-2017 21:12 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• National Gallery's £30m Pontormo bid rejected owing to sterling slump

  06-02-2017 20:31
  
  Attempt to save Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap for the nation is knocked back by US buyer in wake of Brexit voteThe National Gallery’s £30m offer to prevent a painting of national importance from being taken overseas has been rejected owing to the drop in the value of the pound after the Brexit vote. Pontormo’s Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap (1530) was sold at auction two years ago to a US hedge fund manager, Tom Hill. The painting had been in the family of the Earl
  
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• Coming Back to Life: MoMA Restores an Obscure Classic by Teiji Furuhashi

  06-02-2017 19:36 via artnews.com
  In 1995, just as desktop computers were entering middle-class households in much of the world, an artist in Kyoto was putting the finishing touches on a high-tech media installation grieving the emptiness of those newly wired lives. The artist, Teiji … Read More
  
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• How the art world airbrushed female artists from history

  06-02-2017 19:01
  
  Figures compiled by the Guardian paint a dismal portrait of women artists exhibiting in major galleries, in the UK and abroad. But are things changing?Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Botticelli, Titian, Nelli. All were once greats of the Renaissance, though if the last name on the list doesn’t ring a bell with you, you could be forgiven. Like those of her male contemporaries, Plautilla Nelli’s Biblical paintings were masterful works of beauty, but, in a tale as old as patriarchy
  
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• Saloua Raouda Choucair obituary

  06-02-2017 18:42
  
  Lebanese artist whose work was inspired by her Arab heritageSaloua Raouda Choucair was 97 when she was given a show at Tate Modern – and it was her British debut. Indeed, it was the first major exhibition outside her native Lebanon for Choucair, who has died aged 100; even there, her shows were few and far between. As late flowerings go, it will be hard to beat.What made her story all the more extraordinary was that the Tate exhibition revealed Choucair to be an artist of international sta
  
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• Anish Kapoor Wins $1 M. Genesis Prize, Will Put Money Toward Helping Syrian Refugees

  06-02-2017 17:15 via artnews.com
  The Genesis Prize Foundation announced yesterday that Anish Kapoor, the Turner Prize–winning known for monumentally sized works, has been named its 2017 laureate. The annual prize recognizes a person who has made a significant contribution to Jewish politics and culture; … Read More
  
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• David Hockney review – 60 years of sex, sun and seismic shocks

  06-02-2017 16:48
  
  Tate Britain, London
  From his out-and-proud early work to the taut double portraits and rippling LA pools, this retrospective captures the cool sophistication of the rebel in owl glassesTouching, tender, ribald, raunchy, innovative, annoying: there are many pleasures in David Hockney’s Tate Britain retrospective, but just as many exasperations. The earliest work, in an exhibition that spans more than 60 years of Hockney’s art, is buried among a large display of the artist’s dra
  
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• Humongous Mondrian in the heart of The Hague

  06-02-2017 16:46
  
  If you like the art of Piet Mondrian, you should head for The Hague where the worlds largest painting by the trailblazing 20th-century Dutch artist is splashed across City Hall, one of the citys most prominent buildings. The gargantuan replica piece, made by Studio VZ, marks the start of a year-long culture initiative marking the centenary of the Dutch abstract art movement known as the De Stijl movement, which was led by Piet himself. Other buildings and locations in The Hague will undergo a mo
  
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• David Hockney at Tate Britain: a visual diary of the artist's colourful life

  06-02-2017 15:53
  
  With Tate’s fastest-selling exhibition set to open, co-curator Chris Stephens says the artist is finally happy looking to the pastIn the vibrant world of David Hockney, there is always light. It illuminates the fields of Yorkshire, casts shadows across the bodies of lovers, gives ethereal beauty to the Hollywood Hills and, most of all, it bounces off the shimmering blue surface of swimming pools.Now six decades of these paintings, drawings and collages have been brought together under one
  
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• Did the Mona Lisa have syphilis?

  06-02-2017 15:41
  
  Lisa del Giocondo, the model for Leonardo’s painting, was recorded buying snail water – then considered a cure for the STD. It could be the secret to a painting haunted by the spectre of deathWhat is the Mona Lisa’s secret? She smiles so enigmatically under the all-but-invisible transparent silk veil that covers her hair, turning her brown eyes as if she has just seen someone come into her field of vision. The fascination and fame of this portrait, begun by Leonardo da Vinci in
  
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• Berlin's House of World Cultures reopens with digital feast

  06-02-2017 15:09
  One of Berlins most recognisable architectural landmarks, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures, HKW), re-opened last week after a 10m revamp with Transmediale, a festival on art and digital technologies. First launched as a video art festival, Transmediale has evolved into an internationally-celebrated event over the past 30 years. It now includes an art exhibition and a conference exploring the ever-deepening relationship between culture and technology. Under the title
  
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• Morning Links: Super Bowl LI Edition

  06-02-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Ping! Psychology of tech compulsions - Chips with Everything podcast

  06-02-2017 14:59
  
  We explore how our addiction to notifications and alerts influences how we use technology and go about our everyday livesWARNING: explicit languageContinue reading...
  
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• Bringing New Life To James Baldwin's Painfully Relevant Unfinished Manuscript

  06-02-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Raoul Peck, the director of "I Am Not Your Negro," worked on James Baldwin's writing for 30 years, and the movie for a decade. "The film was always experimenting with real feelings, with real stuff. ... Each layer you add has a consequence. This is what I call montage filmmaking."
  
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• Classical Music Station Added - Well, Restored - To The FM Dial In New Orleans

  06-02-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The classical station has been purely HD, and the FM station will share its programming, but it's now back to standard receiver land. The station's general manager: "We have been waiting several years for the opportunity to restore classical music to the FM band. ... As resources grow, we aim to record and broadcast local performances by New Orleans-area classical music organizations."
  
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• With A Win At The Directors Guild, La La Land Director Seems To Be On A Clear Oscar Path

  06-02-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  And it was a political night at the DGA. DGA president Paris Barclay opened that with a clearly aimed statement: "If any person or any group of people, in the name of greater greatness, chooses to block, or to prevent, or to scapegoat, or to separate, or to divide the very people who are all about bringing people together, then we are going to stand with those people."
  
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• Three Years After A Car Bomb Damaged It, A Cairo Museum Reopens

  06-02-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The museum houses more than 9500 pieces of Islamic art from all over the Islamic world. One professor of Islamic art history: "'I think the reopening of the museum is extremely important because there's been so much negative propaganda' about Islam, she says. 'I think it will show people that this was one of the most advanced cultures — and how better to see it than through art?'"
  
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• Annette Bening's Mix Of Public And Very, Very Private

  06-02-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to her latest director, Bening hates self-promotion. Mike Mills: "She doesn’t want to talk about herself, her work or anything – it all makes her queasy. She wants the work to be its own mystery so you have your own relationship with it."
  
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• Theatre - Like Most Of The Arts - Is Struggling With This Sudden Shift In Political Climate

  06-02-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Theatres usually plan seasons at least a year and sometimes several ahead, but they're starting to reshuffle and change the lineups, partly because "artistic directors and theater producers — positioning themselves as first responders in a time of political and humanitarian upheaval — grapple with how to jump-start a current-events conversation with audiences."
  
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• UK’s oldest arts centre celebrates 300th birthday with works by Yoko Ono, Jeremy Deller and other alumni

  06-02-2017 13:25
  
  The Bluecoat in Liverpool, the UKs oldest arts centre, has launched its year-long 300th anniversary celebration with a show dedicated to artist alumni including John Akomfrah, Jeremy Deller and Yoko Ono. Public View (until 23 April) features works by more than 100 artists who have previously exhibited at the venue, which first opened in 1717 as a charity school for orphans. The building became an art space in 1907, when local artists moved in and began staging exhibitions such as Roger Frys rad
  
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• Local Music Somehow Survives, And Occasionally Thrives, In The Face Of Globalization

  06-02-2017 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  That's partly because of "the wild dispersion of technology and musical ideas that creates surprising scenes all over the world. ... Moroccan Berber folk-pop expresses traditional conservative values while being 'saturated with full-on cyborg Auto-Tune' – applied to singers’ vocals in the same ramshackle studios where they’re recorded."
  
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• Will the latest plans for Île Seguin finally turn it into a key Paris culture destination?

  06-02-2017 13:11
  
  The property developer Emerige group plans to build an extensive art centre and 13,000 sq. m art hotel on le Seguin, an island in the western suburbs of Paris that once housed the Renault car factory. The new development, called S17 & S18, will transform the former industrial site into one of the biggest cultural hubs in Europe, says a spokeswoman for the Emerige.The S17 centre will show contemporary art drawn from the collection of Laurent Dumas, the founder of Emerige, whose 1,300-strong
  
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• Did This University Campus Cheat Itself Out Of A Massive New Shakespeare Center?

  06-02-2017 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The story of the New Oxford Shakespeare, the one that's shaking the Bard world with data-driven literary analysis and more, intertwines painfully (and in a way Shakespeare might have appreciated) with a tale of academic backstabbing, disappeared budgets and institutional support gone missing - if it was ever promised in the first place.
  
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• Bret Easton Ellis: Trump should be credited with destroying Washington establishment

  06-02-2017 12:45
  
  Can 50 million people be wrong? Probably is the strap line for one of Bret Easton Ellis and Alex Israels new paintings that went on show last week at Larry Gagosians smallest London gallery (until 18 March). The American Psycho author says the work was conceived long before 62 million people voted for Donald Trump to become the 45th US president, but that time has altered the meaning and many people now think the painting is about Trump or Brexit. The text in fact refers to the popular tel
  
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• Bret Easton Ellis: Trump should be credited with destroying the Washington establishment

  06-02-2017 12:45
  
  Can 50 million people be wrong? Probably is the strap line for one of Bret Easton Ellis and Alex Israels new paintings that went on show last week at Larry Gagosians smallest London gallery (until 18 March). The American Psycho author says the work was conceived long before 62 million people voted for Donald Trump to become the 45th US president, but that time has altered the meaning and many people now think the painting is about Trump or Brexit. The text in fact refers to the popular tel
  
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• Alighiero Boetti takes centre stage in Paris

  06-02-2017 12:00
  
  The fashionable district of Le Marais in Paris has welcomed a new addition to its growing ecosystem of art galleries. Tornabuoni Art, which specialises in Italian post-war art and has outposts in London, Florence and Crans-Montana, has relocated from its former space on Avenue Matignon, which opened in 2009, to a historic 17th-century mansion in the Passage de Retz. Other galleries in the Marais include Marian Goodman, Galerie Perrotin, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Chantal Crousel and Almine Rech G
  
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• US hedge funder turns down National Gallery's £30m offer to buy Pontormo portrait

  06-02-2017 11:18
  
  Tom Hill, the American hedge fund manager who paid over 30m for a Pontormo portrait, is refusing to accept a matching offer from Londons National Gallery. Never before has a UK museum been thwarted in buying an export-deferred artwork after successfully raising a sum of this magnitude.Hill argues that if he accepts the National Gallerys offer, he would loose over $10m, because of the fall in the value of the pound. His spokeswoman revealed to The Art Newspaper: Mr Hill has declined to accept th
  
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• US hedge funder rejects National Gallery's £30m offer to buy Pontormo portrait

  06-02-2017 11:18
  
  Tom Hill, the American hedge fund manager who paid over 30m for a Pontormo portrait, is refusing to accept a matching offer from Londons National Gallery. Never before has a UK museum been thwarted in buying an export-deferred artwork after successfully raising a sum of this magnitude.Hill argues that if he accepts the National Gallerys offer, he would lose over $10m, because of the fall in the value of the pound. His spokeswoman revealed to The Art Newspaper: Mr Hill has declined to accept the
  
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• Celia Birtwell: 'I think David Hockney finds me a little bit ridiculous'

  06-02-2017 09:03
  
  Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, Hockney’s 1971 portrait of textile designer Celia Birtwell and her then husband, is in his retrospective at Tate Britain, which opens this week. Here, Birtwell talks about the painting and her role as Hockney’s museMr and Mrs Clark and Percy (above), the portrait of me and Ossie [Clark, her then husband], was painted in our Notting Hill flat. This is actually the bedroom, but the light came in better there, so we moved some things around, like the shagpile
  
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• Untitled(where is my mind? i can find it without an object.)

  06-02-2017 04:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  i want to control her because she never looks at me how i want she never does what i want she lies down in the wrong way she talks too much when she talks i hate the sound of her voice she says she can’t please me because she is mentally ill. i thought it would be easier to posses her when she was ill. it became harder. she misrepresented herself. she didn’t complete her thought. she ended one thought halfway with the next thought. she stayed in her bed most of the day. i used to bel
  
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• 'A personal attack on Muslim women': Ms Saffaa mural defaced in Melbourne

  06-02-2017 03:41
  
  ‘I almost wanted to cry,’ says Saffaa, who collaborated on the mural with other female artists including Molly CrabappleA Melbourne street-art mural featuring a Muslim feminist protest paste-up by prominent artist and activist Ms Saffaa has been defaced in an act of vandalism the artist has labeled a “personal attack on Muslim women”.Featuring pictures of well-known Saudi activists and artists, women in headscarves, Saudi poetry and a pink stencilling of the words “
  
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